Looking for an old PD Adventure game

[sueilsley]

Hi all,

A long time ago, when I owned an Amstrad CPC, I wrote a game in Amstrad BASIC. It was a text adventure called "The Search for Mithrillium". This was actually my O Level computing project, so as you can imagine, it wasn't a great game, we aren't talking about a rival for Elite. However, it did make it into at least one public domain library.

My dear old CPC is long gone, along with any copies of the game that I had. I just wondered if there were still any copies out there. It would be fun to play it again for old times sake.

Does anyone have a copy or can point me to where I might find one?

[dcdrac]

Found this a stack of PD downloads

http://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/index.php?folder=Amstrad/CPC/Public-Domain
and here
Merline-Serve
And of course wacci
WACCI On-Line: Website home of the Amstrad CPC user group and magazine

Seems to have got a mention on Balrog's page too

AmstradAction088-0036

[arnoldemu]

any of these PD libraries ring a bell?

PD libraries - CPCWiki

If you were to tell us which ones, we may be able to have some more luck.

Only problem is that not much of the pd software from these libraries is online.

[sueilsley]

I don't know why my post turned up twice in the forum. Sorry about that folks. Anyway, thanks for the quick replies.
@dcdrac - thanks for the links, I will take a look through those downloads.  I have had a scout around the Internet, but didn't find my game yet.

@arnoldemu - yes indeed, the wiki page jogged my memory. It was Adventure PD. Sadly there is no URL or contact address listed though.

[robcfg]

Sue, I'm asking in several spanish CPC forums in case anyone can provide us with some more information.


I'll be telling you if the game is found.


Best regards, and welcome!

[AMSDOS]

I had a look around here and found this document:


http://www.cantrell.org.uk/mirrors/robot-pd/index.txt


Sadly though there's only some robot-pd stuff there and the WACCI stuff (which is only a list) only mentions which Discs have the Games on them, sadly no names. I guess if those Discs were online somewhere, that list would help to pick which Discs have the Games on them.

[arnoldemu]

I had a look around here and found this document:


http://www.cantrell.org.uk/mirrors/robot-pd/index.txt


Sadly though there's only some robot-pd stuff there and the WACCI stuff (which is only a list) only mentions which Discs have the Games on them, sadly no names. I guess if those Discs were online somewhere, that list would help to pick which Discs have the Games on them.

They are here:
http://www.cantrell.org.uk/mirrors/index.pl?path=/robot-pd/

I have looked already and I can't find it in there.

I also looked through the "sheepsoft" (?) pd library and I can't find it in there either.

I don't know if the adventure pd discs were ever archived and uploaded...?

[Nich]

A long time ago, when I owned an Amstrad CPC, I wrote a game in Amstrad BASIC. It was a text adventure called "The Search for Mithrillium". This was actually my O Level computing project, so as you can imagine, it wasn't a great game, we aren't talking about a rival for Elite. However, it did make it into at least one public domain library.

My dear old CPC is long gone, along with any copies of the game that I had. I just wondered if there were still any copies out there. It would be fun to play it again for old times sake.

Does anyone have a copy or can point me to where I might find one?

I vaguely remember this game. I used to own it on a compilation of adventure games that my brother obtained from Adventure PD. Unfortunately, when my brother lost interest in the CPC, I reformatted the disc and used it for other stuff, so my copy of the game is lost forever. (This would have been in the mid-1990s, when 3" discs were very scarce and expensive - well, in my experience, anyway.)

[dcdrac]

Here is some PD stuff but not th eone sorry
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[AMSDOS]

They are here:
http://www.cantrell.org.uk/mirrors/index.pl?path=/robot-pd/

I have looked already and I can't find it in there.

I also looked through the "sheepsoft" (?) pd library and I can't find it in there either.

I don't know if the adventure pd discs were ever archived and uploaded...?

I wasn't really looking for "The Search for Mithrillium" in there, though the file which is included there, has a long list of Disks from there PD Library:

  WACCI: PD library
1            Forth programming
2            CP/M utilities
3            MBasic
4            PowerPage, RAMbase, PD Planner, RAMdisc
5            CP/M Games
6            Games
7            CP/M+ utilities
8            Comms
9            CP/M utilities
10            VDE, I-Spell
11            Adventures
12            Cobol
13            Demos 1
15            Flags, Animator demo
16            PPC Pascal, ZBasic
19            MicroDesign art 1
20            MicroDesign art 2
21            MicroDesign art 3
22            Pictures 1
23            Pictures 2
24            Pictures 3
25            MicroDesign art 4
26            MicroDesign art 4
27            Mini Print Shop
28            MicroDesign art 6
29            MicroDesign art 6
30            GPaint, RSXlib
32            MicroDesign art 8
33            MicroDesign art 9
34            MicroDesign art 10
35            Pictures 4
36            Teach Yourself Pascal
37            Adventures 2
38            Games 2
39            Logos, women & pics
40            MicroDesign art 11
41            Eve of Shadows & advs
43            Pictures 5
44            Demos 2
47            Utilities 1
48            Adventures 4
49            Pictures 6
50            Pictures 7
51            Pictures 8
52            Pictures 9
53            Pictures 6
54            Parrotry demo & clips
55            Utilities 2
56            Star Trek pics, music
57            ZDE & CP/M utilities
58            Overscan pictures
59            Demos 5, Face Hugger UMD
60            Digital Dreams
61            Word Games 1
62            Word Games 2
63            Adventures 5
64            Demos 6
65            Games 3
66            Overscan demo (18+)
67            Demos 7
68            Utilities 3
69            CCC 4 fanzine
72            Demos 8
73            Demos 9
74            Epic, utilities 4
75            Utilities 5
76            Megaparty Demo
77            Computext, pictures
78            Games 4
79            Games 5
82            CP/M utilities
83            Printmaster graphics
84            Printmaster graphics
85            MicroDesign fonts
87            Scrivener
88            Rundschlag PD disc
89            Pictures 11
91            Protracker, Disc'o'Magic etc.
92            Games 6
93            Utilities 8
94            Demos 12
95            Print Enhancer
96            CP/M PrintIt
97            DES Demo
99            Crossword Compiler
100            WACCI index
101            Promerge tutor, RAMbase
102            Utilities 9
103            Clip art 1
104            AMS music discs
105            AMS music discs
106            AMS music discs
107            AMS music discs
108            AMS music discs
109            AMS-MIDI, MusicPack
110            Word games
111            Pictures 12
112            Demo-makers, Basic tutor
114            B-ASIC for CPC Plus
115            Animal Quiz, Francais
117            Bankbase
118            Games 7
119            Cribbage, Blackjack
120            Adventures 6
121            Soundhakker v2
122            Soundhakker modules
123            Otto 1-2 fanzine
124            Mr Men slideshow
126            Street Warriors
127            PowerPage support
130            Ghoul's Writer
  I'm just surprised a collection of those discs weren't online. It's just a shame they don't explain what was on those discs.

[sue ilsley]

Well, thanks everyone for looking. I have checked out the libraries you all pointed to, but no luck. I guess my old game is gone.

[AMSDOS]

Well, thanks everyone for looking. I have checked out the libraries you all pointed to, but no luck. I guess my old game is gone.

Hi Sue,


Do you remember what you had your game on (Tape or Disc)?


I still have some Tapes floating around from the good ol' days, though I'm guessing you haven't got anything left from those Amstrad days?    I guess if I'd made something and sent it somewhere, it would of been on tape, just because of the cost of a 3" Disc.   

[arnoldemu]

I found a file called ADVENTUR.BAS and it starts with:
"You are standing in a small village..."
It seems to be in 3 parts, but I only have 1 part. Written in BASIC.

Passwords for each part appear to be DRAGONBAIT, FIREDRAKE and MITHRILL.

I am fairly sure it's not your adventure, and probably one of Simon Avery's but just wondering...??

[AMSDOS]

This AA Page from Balrog, has a contact for someone who has solved Search for Mithrillium, I won't post their details here, though would it be worthwhile contacting Phil to see if they have a copy? Or have you tried that?

I had a look up the White Pages UK, and it looks like that Address is still current, sadly I couldn't get an address from it though (it looks as if you have to sign up for something else before you can view that information).

[Sue Ilsley]

Thanks for more replies.

@amsdos. My copy of the game was on 3" disk, but I guess it would be whatever the PD library sent out. I will see if I can contact the chap who wrote to Balrog, thanks for that suggestion.

@arnoldemu. Nice try, but no, I don't think adventur.bas is the one. I'm fairly sure my game didn't start in a village. It was a space adventure, I think it started in the space ship.  I remember playing Simon's games though. I loved those.

[arnoldemu]

I may have found Debbie Howard from Adventure PD:

Well the only common things are that this Debbie used an Amstrad and enjoys Adventure games. Howard may have been her maiden name.

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Only way to know.
I was hoping in some crazy way that if we located Debbie she may still have the Adventure PD discs (pure luck I am sure if she kept them after this time), or found out what happened to the adventure pd library... did it get absorbed into another library?