grant74 Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 Hi Guys - this should be a quickie, but I fear I maybe taking the can opener to the proverbial can of worms! - I'm looking for Graphic/text type adventures for my ST - you know the type - Level 9 did a few for the A8, wondered if they also did ST adventures too? or any other good writers for that matter? Hopefully adventures on the ST would have a bit of a better parser than the old "two word" commands of adventures on A8's - thats not to say A8 adventures were crap - some were awesome! So, any ideas folks? and also can you name and shame some stinkers too? Cheers all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 The Pawn, Guild of Thieves, Jinxter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 Any of the Sierra titles were pretty good, IMHO. I love Space Quest 1,2,3... Kings Quest is good too. Adventure Of Monkey Island. Quite a few out there actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oky2000 Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 If you get the Magnetic Scrolls collection then you get the updated versions of Pawn/Guild etc with the Magnetic Windowing system they used for Wonderland. That would be my choice anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+rdemming Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 The Delphine adventures: Future Wars Operation Steath Cruise for a Corpse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 Not totally text-like, but man, Another World rocks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grant74 Posted July 18, 2011 Author Share Posted July 18, 2011 Thanks a lot guys - will look into those titles - just out of interest - what is the magnetic windowing system? not heard of it. I heard Another world is a good game - although my copy dont work! - will look out on evilbay - is it just me or are the disks for the ST not as reliable as the old 5" jobs they used on 8 bit machines? 99.9% of my A8 stuff works - where as I'd say only 75% of my ST stuff works - mind you - most of it has come 2nd hand from the bay of evil! lol! - cant complain though - my last lot cost me about £15 and for that I got a box of about 50 games - about 40 of which are working - may offer the remaining ones for free to fellow Atarians to see if they'll work on other machines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstFan Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 (edited) Thanks a lot guys - will look into those titles - just out of interest - what is the magnetic windowing system? not heard of it. ... Don't let that name confuse you It is just system of firm Magnetic Scrolls . Basically, it is custom WIMP for playing games. So, Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pull-down menus . Most similar to MAC 'Windows' . I guess that they made platform independent main code for it, as games were made for most of 16-bitters. There are couple other games for ST with WIMP, as Deja Vu 1-2, Uninvited, Shadowgate . But they use regular GEM, AES . Edited July 20, 2011 by AstFan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjlazer Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Mindshadow, Borrowed Time and Tass Times in Tonetown!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kroah Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 I liked a lot Fish! ... and Ooze: Creepy Nites: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VW Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 is it just me or are the disks for the ST not as reliable as the old 5" jobs they used on 8 bit machines? 99.9% of my A8 stuff works - where as I'd say only 75% of my ST stuff works It's not just you, I have had terrible luck with 3.5" disks overall, a lot of ST ones have gone bad and I only had somewhat better luck with the HD disks for PC. And yet 5 years ago my mom found a bunch of A8 5.25" disk games that were buried under a bunch of junk in an outdoor shed for 10 years in an extremely humid and cold damp area close to Seattle. I was shocked to see that about 65% of those disks still worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ndial Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 (edited) "Lure of the Temptress" and "Loom" Edited September 16, 2011 by ndial Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 I've got both those games and they are good (Loom and Lure Of The Temptress). Lure Of The Temptress especially has remarkable graphics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oky2000 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Ooze & Uninvited are OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oky2000 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Not totally text-like, but man, Another World rocks. In that case so does Defender of the Crown and Rocket Ranger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Loom was interesting. Not graphical, but still glad that all the Infocom adventures made it onto the ST, and honestly since I collect the Infocom stuff, the ST games are some of the few ST games I still own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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