Aardvark title "Quest"

Ghislain · Post by **Ghislain** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 5:41 am

I remember seeing the advertisement for "Quest" in COMPUTE!'s Gazette. I always wondered how it looked like. And I also remember it mentioning the 'Dungeons of Death' title.

robinsonmason · Post by **robinsonmason** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 7:26 am

This should be the Quest game for the C64: http://gb64.com/game.php?id=15383&d=18&h=0

As mentioned in the advertisements, it does look a lot like Wizard's Tower: http://gb64.com/game.php?id=11272&d=18&h=0

But gameplay of Quest seems more akin to Fortress of the Witch King where you buy armies at cities on the map, while Wizard's Tower is more of a single character RPG.

I'm not sure what the end goal and challenges are without the instructions, though.

hornpipe2 · Post by **hornpipe2** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 8:29 pm

Enjoy the dump, guys : ) The tape is now on eBay - I don't have a VIC-20 and have no use for the original. Possibly I would get more for it if I didn't dump it first, but then think about all the other games I'd never experience if those owners hadn't released them...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0564621946

robinsonmason · Post by **robinsonmason** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 8:40 pm

Thanks Hornpipe! Really appreciate you sharing. I hope to see it bid up.

robinsonmason · Post by **robinsonmason** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 5:36 pm

I played both DoD VIC-20 and Magdarr C64 for comparison purposes. No question DoD was a precursor to the Magdarr games now.

I took a screenshot of the intro text of both DoD for the VIC-20 and Dungeon of Magdarr for the C64 (Dungeon of Death was also available for the C64 but remains elusive).

Text is identical! See:

Also, this table and chair graphic is used in the C64 Magdarr games.

DanSolo · Post by **DanSolo** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:36 pm

Mayhem wrote:Yeah, that's an interesting choice. Still, you could frig it if you worked out the code. And I already found two bugs in the game just from one playthrough; I tried to open a door after listening to it and the game just immediately dropped me out to a READY prompt!

Anybody up for a little debugging?

robinsonmason · Post by **robinsonmason** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:39 pm

I'll volunteer to play test!

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:01 pm

There's a problem at the start of line 196 in the main program. And obviously an issue when you try to open a door, but I haven't figured out what causes that yet.

Oh, yes I have now. Lines past 800 appear to get corrupted when loading the main game after loading the first part. The routine that involves opening the door calls a subroutine at line 800. It loads fine if you hard reset to load the main part of the game. If I try to change the line, the emulator crashes. Very odd...

I wonder if the person who bought the tape might be able to redump it. Or somehow we can fix it and recreate the tape properly heh...

robinsonmason · Post by **robinsonmason** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:38 pm

Mayhem, given that Dungeons of Magdarr is an evolution of the same game, I wonder if there is anything that can be gleaned from the Commodore 64 version's code?

http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=11515&d=39

http://gamebase64.hardabasht.com/games/ ... 515_01.zip

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 8:21 am

Not sure... it's compiled BASIC and has the usual disabling POKEs, so I can't see the listing.

robinsonmason · Post by **robinsonmason** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:44 pm

Great news - two DoD manuals and Quest (from TRS-80, but manuals are more or less the same) were recently added to the "new aquisitions" page at the Museum of Computer Adventure Gaming History:

(Note the thumbnails with PDF icons)

http://mocagh.org/loadpage.php?getgame= ... fdeath-alt

http://mocagh.org/loadpage.php?getgame=dungeonsofdeath

The manual could be helpful in any restoration effort(?).

Here is Quest, as well:

http://mocagh.org/loadpage.php?getgame=quest-alt

popo14081976 · Post by **popo14081976** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:52 am

Hello everyone ! The link of the Dungeons of Death TAP (http://nwserver.webhop.org/_greg/d_of_d) seems broken... Does anyone has a copy of this tape image ?
Thank you,
bye!

robinsonmason · Post by **robinsonmason** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 8:38 am

Hey popo, I have put both tap files and a PDF for the instructions up here: http://www.mediafire.com/?21nomwbkax7qn

popo14081976 · Post by **popo14081976** » Sun Sep 18, 2011 3:39 am

Thank you very much ! Trying it immediately.
Bye!

ravenxau · Post by **ravenxau** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:16 pm

robinsonmason wrote:Hey popo, I have put both tap files and a PDF for the instructions up here: http://www.mediafire.com/?21nomwbkax7qn

When I try to attach the TAP in Vice i get "Cannot attach specified file" error - if i try to drag and drop it onto vice it loads and prints some colored jibberish in the bottom right of the screen, any thoughts?

EDIT

Was just a corrupt download - all good now

Denial

Aardvark title "Quest"

Quest and DoD Manuals / PDF added to MOCAGH

Hello!