Adventure Games and Solutions, Help needed !

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Here's the TAP for Lords of Time for those who are interested.
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dave3622 wrote: Sat Sep 25, 2021 9:50 am Here's the TAP for Lords of Time for those who are interested.
I"m Interested ! :)
Thanks for sharing.
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Here's Revenge of the Toothless Vampire. It was a listing for the BBC Micro so I had to convert it as best I could.
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Jonh wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 2:57 pm

15 Tunnel Adventure
16 Underground Adventure
To which you can add:
18 Castlemaze Adventure

These are all three type-ins from the book ‘Exploring Adventures on the Oric’, published by Duckworth, the book is in the DF Library here: https://library.defence-force.org/books ... e_oric.pdf
They need typing in and checking for bugs :)
I've been meaning to type these games in for some time, I have the book but just never got around to doing it. I'm on annual leave in a weeks time, I'm sure I will find the time to get them done finally.
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dave3622 wrote: Sat Sep 25, 2021 6:06 pm Here's Revenge of the Toothless Vampire. It was a listing for the BBC Micro so I had to convert it as best I could.
Wow! Thanks a lot! One more 'lost' soft recovered !!
I've been meaning to type these games in for some time, I have the book but just never got around to doing it. I'm on annual leave in a weeks time, I'm sure I will find the time to get them done finally.
Do not spend your time... I have typed in 'tunnel adventure' and 'castelmaze adventure' and I' m curently debuging them.
On his side, Jon is curently typing in 'underground adventure':-)
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Thanks for letting me know! I kinda enjoy typing games in; reminds me of my childhood but It's good that I don't need to now.
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Revenge of the Toothless Vampire up on Oric.org

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So, these are the results of my researches on the balance of Dom’s List 1, missing adventure games:

1 Balrog’s Castle
2 Black Orx Castle
These were advertised in a small classified advert in Your Computer, December 1983, just the once. I suspect very few, if any were sold.

4 Caverns of Hellville
SteveM has this on an Oric disk, we are in the process of converting it.

6 Death House
No record this that I can find, nor is it on Oric.org

7 Dracula
Advertised in Your Computer, February 1984, but sales unknown. No owners on Oric.org

8 Dreadnought Disaster
This was said to be becoming available ‘on every well-known machine, in other words the top 5/6” in an article in Big K, April 1984. There is no subsequent reference to it being available for any computer.

9 Dungeons of Intrigue
Advertised in PCW 17/3/83 and 14/4/83, publisher based in Wrexham, Clwyd. It was reviewed in PCN 9, 13 May, 1983 as ‘badly bugged’ and given 1 star! Still, at least 1 copy existed.

10 The Haunt
Definitely released and sold, but not in great numbers - someone in the UK must have this.

11 Indiana Smith
Again definitely released and sold, anyone in UK?

13 Psycho 2 / Psycho 3
Reviewed in Your Computer, March 1984 and in PCN 56, 7 April 1984. Publisher based in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Based on Norman Bates character from the Hitchcock movies. Copies clearly existed.

…unless you know better!

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Psycho 3 definitely exists since it was added to oric.org within the last year or so.
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Hi yes I did buy Psycho 3 off Ebay.
That's when I decided to stop buying overpriced software from there! Psycho 2 was sold there too, see discussion here:
https://forum.defence-force.org/viewtop ... cho#p19390

I think one of our great French collectors (Maurice) has The Haunt, but I don't manage to keep in touch with him to help transferring tapes (spare time is as rare as usual :( ).
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I think I have Psycho iii
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Hi, :)
I found a title that is not in my list : "FOREST OF DOOM"
Hereunder, is what CASA site says about it:
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Was published for the Oric-1 with the title Forest of Doom in the February 1984 edition of PCW, pp. 313-317.
Published in the February 1985 edition of Your Commodore under the title The Forest of Evil.
Very similar to the game The Treasure of Middle Earth.
The Sharp MZ game, Forest of Doom, appears to be based heavily on this title as it includes an in-game credit to Steve Lucas.
The Oric version was ported to the BBC in 2020 by Leenew.
I searched for the PCW ferbruary 1984 issue but could not find the listing.
This entry is not on Oric.org...

has anyone ever heard of this adventure game ?
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Dom wrote: Sat Oct 09, 2021 9:39 am I searched for the PCW ferbruary 1984 issue but could not find the listing.
This entry is not on Oric.org...
Here you are - Forest of Doom (or Forest of Dom :)).

Complete PCW issue #2 HERE (>550MB :!: ).

And attached are the requested pages only (in best resolution) ;).
Probably I can try to OCR the BASIC code but atm I'm bit busy.
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iss wrote: Sat Oct 09, 2021 11:04 am]
Here you are - Forest of Doom (or Forest of Dom :)).
Tanks a lot iss :D
I'll wait a while before typing in.... Perhaps someone willl post a .tap version :)
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I've just checked and sadly I don't have Forest of Doom. I'll type it in if you like, or would you prefer to? :lol:
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