Re: Best text adventures

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          John Cartmell <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> > Essential:
>> > Adventure
>> No solution available on the internet apparently for this game.
> 
> Oh yes there will be! ;-)
> Most versions!!
> 
Not the MicroPower one I'd wager.

>> Somebody posted a walkthrough recently - maybe there should be a
>> challenge to complete this.
> 
> Which version?
> 
I meant for a different game.


>> Robico was a major developer in its day. Qercus could steal a march on
>> the competition by publi****ng an article on them.
> 
> Which competition?! ;-)
> 
> Was Robico just the O'Learys? I don't know of any of the games - were
they any
> good? Are any available now to run on RISC OS?
> 
They only released a small number of Arc games. At least two can be 
run under RISC OS Select (http://www.vocks.org.uk/heyley/games.htm)

but don't appear correctly. You need A310em for correct running. All 
the rest should work under 8-bit emulation.

Andrew