[Coco] Solving old (coco) adventure games on modern day computers

[nickma2 at optusnet.com.au]

I personally had a fondness for the Bob Withers graphic/text
adventures sold through Mark Data.

I played and solved everyone of these back in the day. They weren't
too hard but not too easy either.

Fun times!

Nick 

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From: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" 
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Sent:Mon, 29 Sep 2014 00:43:49 -0400
Subject:Re: [Coco] Solving old (coco) adventure games on modern day
computers

 Maps, walk through solutions, and a very detailed analysis of
Raakatu,
 Bedlam, Pyramid 2000, Madness and the Minotaur, and others can be
found
 online already. I won't link anything here out of respect for people
who'd
 rather not know :) but, if you're interested in how these games work,
 there is a site where they have done an awesome job of dissecting
them.

 When I ported these games to Android, that site was invaluable. It
does
 ruin any chance of solving the game yourself to know this stuff
though.
 They were a big part of what the Coco was to me back in the day, so
it was
 hard to admit I'd never figure them out, but once I did it was also
very
 interesting to learn how they worked.

 The guy who wrote P2000, Bedlam and Raakatu was named Robert
Arnstein. He
 wrote a few other games for the model I/III as well. There is a sort
of VM
 that the games are implemented in, and you can see how it evolves
over time
 from game to game, adding new tricks. Many tricky bits to deliver
bigger
 adventures than available RAM should allow. If you've definitely
given up
 on solving the games, it's a very interesting bit of history imho.
 On Sep 29, 2014 12:21 AM,  wrote:

 > Not to mention if these maps were to be released into the public
 > domain!
 >
 > That destroys the whole fun of the game if one can refer to a full
 > solution!
 >
 > Do whatever you want but keep it to yourself. Don't destroy the
 > element of discovery for others to enjoy.
 >
 > Nick
 >
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts"
 > To:"CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts"
 > Cc:
 > Sent:Mon, 29 Sep 2014 13:52:25 +1000
 > Subject:Re: [Coco] Solving old (coco) adventure games on modern day
 > computers
 >
 > On 29/09/2014 1:27 PM, Tony Cappellini wrote:
 >
 > > Have any of you used other programs to help create adventure maps
 > and track
 > > your progress, without resorting to pencil & paper?
 >
 > That was half the fun of it, for me. Still got a folder of
hand-drawn
 > maps
 > from 30 years ago lying around here. I was never a fan of the games
 > that
 > mapped for you as you went. But each to their own...
 >
 > Regards,
 >
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 > | Mark McDougall | "Electrical Engineers do it
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