Brent Hendricks <bphendri@bbs.catracing.org> wrote:

What was your favorite text adventure or graphics/text adventure for the Commodore 8-bit line?

I always avoided the text adventures because of their limited
"understanding" of what you could do. I did try Hulk, or was
it Incredible Hulk.

In the beginning you were tied up and I guess you had to do
"bite lip" to get free. If you did not do so, you would be
forever stuck in the beginning. I never got anything done
and gave up.

br,
KK

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kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) writes:

Brent Hendricks <bphendri@bbs.catracing.org> wrote:

What was your favorite text adventure or graphics/text adventure for the
Commodore 8-bit line?

For me it was probably "Gruds in Space" which I managed to beat by
myself. I think it may be the only one I solved by myself so likely it
was fairly easy.

I always avoided the text adventures because of their limited
"understanding" of what you could do. I did try Hulk, or was
it Incredible Hulk.

I remember that style, there was a bunch of these superhero text
adventures. I think I played Spider-Man as well. Didn't get far in
either.

In the beginning you were tied up and I guess you had to do
"bite lip" to get free. If you did not do so, you would be
forever stuck in the beginning. I never got anything done
and gave up.

Sounds familiar. As I recall, anything you could do tied up to hurt
yourself would turn you into the Hulk and free you from the ropes. There
was "tip chair" for example. This puzzle at least wasn't the weird "moon
logic" kind so favored by some adventure games.

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On Wed 10-Jun-2026 4:07p, kalevi@kolttonen.fi wrote:

Brent Hendricks <bphendri@bbs.catracing.org> wrote:

What was your favorite text adventure or graphics/text adventure for the Commodore 8-bit line?

forever stuck in the beginning. I never got anything done
and gave up.

LOL, don't feel bad! That is how most of my experience with these adventure or puzzle games went.

I think out of all the ones I tried.

* Scott Adams series
Adventureland
Pirates Adventure

* Windham Classic's
Treasure Island
Swiss Family Robinson

*Tellarium
Rendevouz With Rama

*Sierra Online
Leisure Suit Larry
Police Quest 3
Police Quest

*Unknown publisher
Masqurade

I was only ever able to complete
Treaure Island and Police Quest 3....

So there ya go! :)

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On Wednesday, 10 Jun 26 10:12:55, Brent Hendricks wrote:

What was your favorite text adventure or graphics/text adventure for the Commodore 8-bit line? Mine was Trasure Island by Windham Classics. It has the dubious honor of being one of the only adventure game that I ever solved (and it took me MONTHS!), it also got me to read the actual book by Rober Louis Stevenson.

I liked the game engine, and the graphics and music also added to the overall experience.

The Hobbit. Simply, because I was not into graphic adventures, but a
friend used to play it. So it's the only one I know.

Odd, when trying to post this it was refused due to the header line

| Distribution: The Rat's Den Amiga - bbs.catracing.org:6840

How did this get into my header? I removed it now.
--
Andreas

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Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> wrote:

Odd, when trying to post this it was refused due to the header line

| Distribution: The Rat's Den Amiga - bbs.catracing.org:6840

How did this get into my header? I removed it now.

Using tin, my replies were also refused and I had to
manually remove the offending line. I guess it originates
from those Amiga BBS systems that relay messages to
Usenet.

br,
KK

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At times I still like logging onto my BBS and loading up some InfoGames text file advetures myself.

* ACIS Member. AmigaNet ArakNet C=Net DescipleNet FidoNet PiNet RetroNet
* C-Net/5
* Origin: call.rofbbs.com ports 6800 6400 8502 423-541-8271 rofbbs.com (1:154/50)

On Tue 16-Jun-2026 7:38p, Gary Mcculloch@1:154/5.0 wrote:

At times I still like logging onto my BBS and loading up some InfoGames text file advetures myself.

I forgot that somone wrote an infocom game file reader for C-Net so you could play those online...

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On 2026-06-10, Brent Hendricks <bphendri@bbs.catracing.org> wrote:

I was only ever able to complete
Treaure Island and Police Quest 3....

Someone is making a Scummvm engine for Synchronet.. We'll be able to
play Monkey Island and such games on BBSes soon.
With a fancy terminal, that is.

You can already play Gameboy games.


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Re: Re: Favorite text adventure?
By: phigan to All on Fri Jul 24 2026 05:00 pm

On 2026-06-10, Brent Hendricks <bphendri@bbs.catracing.org> wrote:

I was only ever able to complete
Treaure Island and Police Quest 3....

Someone is making a Scummvm engine for Synchronet.. We'll be able to
play Monkey Island and such games on BBSes soon.

That someone is me. :-) It's called SyncScumm and (along with SyncDOOM, SyncDuke, SyncRetro, SyncConquer, SyncMoo1, and SyncRPG) can be run on any DOOR32.SYS compatible BBS (not just Synchronet). I play to make an intro/demo YT video soon. I think it'll blow some minds.

With a fancy terminal, that is.

Works best with SyncTERM v1.10+ (the only option if you want audio), but many other terminals support Sixel (graphics), mouse input, and "Kitty keys" already (even Windows Terminal!), so it's pretty common feature set nowadays.

You can already play Gameboy games.

I know HM Derdoc did a Gameboy emulation door - I have not (yet, at least). SyncRetro already supports Intellivison, NES, and classic Arcade games (ROMs), but not Gameboy or other handhelds.
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Re: Re: Favorite text adventure?
By: phigan to All on Fri Jul 24 2026 05:00 pm

On 2026-06-10, Brent Hendricks <bphendri@bbs.catracing.org> wrote:

I was only ever able to complete
Treaure Island and Police Quest 3....

Someone is making a Scummvm engine for Synchronet.. We'll be able to play Monkey Island and such games on BBSes soon.

That someone is me. :-) It's called SyncScumm and (along with SyncDOOM, SyncDuke, SyncRetro, SyncConquer, SyncMoo1, and SyncRPG) can be run on any DOOR32.SYS compatible BBS (not just Synchronet). I play to make an intro/demo YT video soon. I think it'll blow some minds.

Do these Sync* environments require that the sysop own the games, or do the games/some games come with packages like the Scummvm engine?


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Re: Re: Favorite text adventure?
By: Mike Powell to Rob Swindell on Sat Jul 25 2026 02:23 pm

Someone is making a Scummvm engine for Synchronet.. We'll be able to play Monkey Island and such games on BBSes soon.

That someone is me. :-) It's called SyncScumm and (along with SyncDOOM, SyncDuke, SyncRetro, SyncConquer, SyncMoo1, and SyncRPG) can be run on any DOOR32.SYS compatible BBS (not just Synchronet). I play to make an intro/demo YT video soon. I think it'll blow some minds.

Do these Sync* environments require that the sysop own the games, or do the games/some games come with packages like the Scummvm engine?

Some great SCUMM games are completely free and Synchronet (in gitlab now and included in next release) includes small installation packages for:

Space Quest 0: Replicated
Cascade Quest
Betrayed Alliance Book 1
Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back
Lure of the Temptress
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Beneath a Steel Sky

which downloads the game assets and installs/configures the door into Synchronet's config files for the sysop.

For commercial games (e.g. Maniac Mansion), the sysop needs to provide the (assumed purchased/owned) game assets. Instructions that use Maniac Mansion as the example included in https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/blob/master/src/doors/syncscumm/README.md
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Do these Sync* environments require that the sysop own the games, or do the
games/some games come with packages like the Scummvm engine?

Some great SCUMM games are completely free and Synchronet (in gitlab now and included in next release) includes small installation packages for:

SNIP

For commercial games (e.g. Maniac Mansion), the sysop needs to provide the (assumed purchased/owned) game

Thanks for the explanation!


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For me it has to be The Tracer Sanction. I clearly remember being
just blown away by the animated clock in the Jeweler's Store.
I still play it sometimes. I've even thought about maybe trying
to do speed-runs of it.

Mindshadow was the companion game to The Tracer Sanction and
seems like it uses the same engine. Also excellent. Both games
have this peculiar drawing style where everything is refined
and perfect but then there will be a face just scribbled
in. Great stuff.

---- Original Message ----
Subject: Favorite text adventure?
From: bphendri@bbs.catracing.org (Brent Hendricks)
Date: Wednesday, 10 Jun 26 10:12:55
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Article: 19486

What was your favorite text adventure or graphics/text adventure for the Commodore 8-bit line? Mine was Trasure Island by Windham Classics. It has
the dubious honor of being one of the only adventure game that I ever solved (and it took me MONTHS!), it also got me to read the actual book by Rober
Louis Stevenson.

I liked the game engine, and the graphics and music also added to the
overall experience.

Rug Rat (Brent Hendricks)
Blog and Forums - www.catracing.org
IMAGE BBS! 3.0 - bbs.catracing.org 6400
C-Net Amiga BBS - bbs.catracing.org 6840
Ham's Over IP - 104196


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On 2026-07-25, Rob Swindell <usenet@vk3heg.net> wrote:

That someone is me. :-) It's called SyncScumm and (along with SyncDOOM,

Hey, good to see you here. These doors are pretty great.

With a fancy terminal, that is.

Works best with SyncTERM v1.10+ (the only option if you want audio),

Yes! Tons of terminals will have support for sure. Except ones like this
C64 that I'm on ;) .. but we can't have everything!

SyncRetro already supports Intellivison, NES, and classic Arcade games (ROMs), but not Gameboy or other handhelds.

Now to get my friends to sign up to the BBS so we can play a multiplayer
game of Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers.


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