Howard Feldman at MOCAGH said he also does not have any docs but helped find this below -- now to track down RUN Magazine...!
GAME NAME: Baldor's Castle
COMPANY : Daedalus Digital
AUTHOR : Martin Kennedy (1983)
GAME TYPE: Dungeon style adventure game.
REQUIRED : 16k RAM (8k each in banks 1 & 2). Type SYS 20182 to start.
GRAPHICS : Good. A bit plain in places, but good enough to do the job.
SOUND : Average to good. Just the usual sound effects, but done OK.
GAMEPLAY : Depends on whether you (A) can figure it out without the original
instructions, and (B) whether you even like dungeon-type games.
OVERALL : See gameplay, and decide for yourself.
REVIEW : "Arfon Micro (111 Rena Drive, Suite C, Lafayette, LA 70503) has
released a new game for the Vic-20. Baldor's Castle challenges
you to fight off the monsters with your bare hands (if you are
able) or with bow and arrow, magic sword, potions and more. The
castle contains more than 70 rooms on three levels. It is
available on cartridge and sells for $29.95."
(Seen on page 146
of Run magazine, Jan 1984 / premiere issue.)
TRIVIA : Largely written in BASIC, with some machine language routines.
The location of the game was also unusual for a cartridge, though
not unusual for a game written in Basic. The author apparently
just copied the image from his 16k RAM expander's memory area to
that same memory area on an (EP)ROM cartridge format. Only this
game and the Scott Adams games require a SYS number to start and
both because they sit in the area normally used by Basic programs.
COMMENTS : If you're running this program via a Vic20 software emulator, try
setting your RAM expansion memory to 16k. This program starts at
memory address $2000 if your emulator asks for that information.
After it is loaded into memory, type the SYS 20182 code to start.
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