Scott Adams adventure interpreter

I started to play adventure games on my TRS-80 computer back in 1980 and of cause I played a lot of adventures of Adventure International. I even wrote my own adventure game in basic. I read an article written by Scott Adams (the guy who created Adventure International) (www.msadams.com ) about his adventure interpreter. A lot of years later I contacted Scott and we became friends. I ported the adventure interpreter to windows (Visual C++) and it was published on a CD with all the old Adventure files. Today I play the adventure games like Myst and Riven because I really like the atmosphere and the puzzles. But every now and then I look at the old adventures and it brings back a lot of good memories.

This Scott Adams adventure game interpreter program was witten in 1997 (last updated 2005) in Visual 'C' by Hein Pragt from the Netherlands.
The original text Adventure games are still copyrighted by Scott Adams and are not Public Domain, they may be freely downloaded and enjoyed though.
This adventure interprete program is freeware, feel free to share.

If you like this interpreter program I would appreciate a donation, any amount would be greatly appreciated. (by me, my wife and our 8 children)
You can also send me an email to tell me what you think about this program (mail@heinpragt.com) or do both.

My Dutch bank account at the Rabobank is 14.68.57.526.

Download.

advent201.zip

advent105.zip

advents.zip

Games:

• #1 Adventureland (1978)
• #2 Pirate's Adventure
• #3 Mission Impossible (1979)
• #5 The Count (1981)
• #6 Strange Odyssey
• #7 Mystery Fun House
• #8 Pyramid of Doom
• #9 Ghost Town
• #10 Savage Island, part 1
• #11 Savage Island, part 2
• #13 Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle (1984)
• #14 Return to Pirate's Island

About Scott Adams.

Scott Adams wrote the first commercial text adventure game for the personal computer. He wrote Adventureland for the TRS-80 in BASIC. Adams based it on Colossal Caves, which was written by Will Crowther and Don Woods on a DEC PDP-10.

Adams formed a company called Adventure International in 1978. Between '78 and '84 Adams wrote 14 text adventure games for the Atari, Apple II, C64, Sorcerer, TI, and CP/M. The games all featured a two word parser (e.g., GO EAST).

Scott started selling his Adventureland game by placing a small ad in a computer magazine and sending copies on tape. His first big sale was 50 copies to a Radio Shack in Chicago. In December 1980, Byte magazine wrote an article about Adams' adventure game. At its peak, Adventure International grossed $3 million. It signed a deal with Marvel Comics to release games based on its super heros under the Questprobe label.

When the bottom fell out of the video game market in the mid '80s, Adams' Adventure International went out of business. Today Adams is 48 years old, lives in Wisconsin, and works as a senior programmer for Avista, Inc.