Disks available from Syntax The following PD adventures and related disks are available from SynTax for œ2.50 (œ3.50 outside UK/Europe) or if you make a contribution to SynTax on disk, you can pick a PD disk to replace it (see the contributions section for more details). For a more detailed explanation of the contents of older disks, please refer to previous issues of SynTax. @+To the best of my knowledge, titles written in ~contrast +are the only ones NOT STE-compatible. Please let me know if you know of any more. Adventure Help. PD 1 : John Barnsley's ST Adventure Solution Disk 1 PD 2 : John's ST Adventure Solution Disk 2 PD 3 : John's ST Adventure Solution Disk 3 PD 11: Dungeon Master maps and demo of the DM cheat PD 12: Dungeon Master help files PD 29: John's ST Adventure Solution Disk 4 PD 44: General Adventure Solution Disk 1 PD 58: John's Adventure Solution Disk 5 PD 59: John's Bard's Tale 1 Game Help Disk (including maps!) Please note disk is DOUBLE-SIDED PD 60: Chaos Strikes Back DOUBLE-SIDED disk of maps, including isometric 3D version of level 5 PD 61: Alex van Kaam's maps of Bloodwych plus slideshow program! DOUBLE-SIDED disk STAC Games - all are text/graphics. PD 4 : STAC demo plus The Case of the Mixed-up Shymer PD 6 : Wizard's Tower V1.65 PD 7 : Invasion PD 8 : The Payoff PD 34: Assassin RPGs with rudimentary graphics. PD 5 : Hack! v1.03 complete with ramdisk, DOUBLE-SIDED PD 25: Larn v1.00 PD 37: DDST Demos etc. PD 13: Demo of Zak McKracken PD 14: Playable demo of the RPG Bloodwych, needs two joysticks PD 21: Infocom sampler PD 22: Sundog demo PD 24: Demo of The Pawn PD 26: Playable demo of King's Quest II PD 27: Non-playable demo of Black Cauldron PD 28: Non-playable demo of Tanglewood, DOUBLE-SIDED PD 30: Non-playable demo of The Jade Stone PD 31: Rolling demo of Lancelot PD 51: Zeitgeist demo from Interactive Technology EAMON Adventures, text-only. @~PD 16: EAMON plus Deathstar and Quest for the Holy Grail @~PD 17: EAMON plus Zyphur and Devil's Tomb @~PD 18: The Crypt Crasher AGT Adventures, text-only. PD 38: The Adventure Game Toolkit - American adventure writing system to produce text-only Infocom-style adventure games PD 39: AGT Source Code 1 - 10 AGT adventures. Requires AGT disk to run PD 41: A Dudley Dilemma PD 42: Tark PD 50: Love's Fiery Rapture - multiple-choice adventure PD 63: Des Ring Des Nibelungen - based on Wagner's operas and featuring a tender and loving Brunnhilde PD 64: Star Portal - SF adventure based on a Damon Knight short story. Journey to the stars, meet alien creatures, explore ruined cities and acquire a pet dog! PD 65: Susan, A Lustful Game - adult only PD 66: Tamoret - the largest and most compex AGT game so far! Help return a creature from the fourth dimension that has escaped into our world PD 67: Pork - Zork spoof PD 68: Son of Stagefright - winner of the 1989 AGT Contest. As an actor (or actress) you must get out of an old, abandoned theatre. A game in three "acts", each with a different theme. PD 69: Easter Egg Hunt - suitable for 7-12 year olds, no murder, monsters or anything scary.... PD 70: Fast Lane - Find, enter and win a Classic Car Show, overcoming obstructive family members, odd creatures, criminals and the police. PD 71: House of the O's - based on the ordinary activities of an American family PD 72: Pork II: The Gizzard of Showbiz - parody of - yes, you guessed it - Zork II PD 73: Pyramid of Muna : discover the metaphysical secrets of an ancient Mexican pyramid PD 74: Quest for the Holy Grail - for lovers of Monty Python as it's loosely based on the film of the same name PD 75: Sir Ramic Hobbs and the High Level Gorilla - a Knight Errant and his faithful companion, the Wizard Prang, try to rescue a beautiful princess PD 76: The Battle of Philip against the Forces of Creation - D&D style game written as a continuation of and response to Tark (on PD 42) PD 77: The Pilot --- or A Flight into Fantasy - action-packed game from the start (where your jet is about to crash into the ground at Mach 2) to the end (no, I'm not saying what it is....) Miscellaneous Adventure, text-only unless stated otherwise. PD 9 : Colossal Cave, Once a King and City out of Bounds PD 10: Enchanted Realm, Sherlock and Beyond the Tesseract @~PD 15: AdvSys/AdvInt adventure writing system plus Starship @~ Columbus PD 19: Asylum @+PD 20: Crowley's House, ~Doppy World, +Prisoner of the Dark Pearl @+PD 23: ~System 5 +and Paranoia PD 40: Darkness is Forever. Text-only in medium res, occasional graphics in high res PD 46: Treasure Hunt Jersey - like the TV programme. Written by Advent Software using Tailspin so uses mouse-clicking on graphics to play PC Shareware Adventures which will run on the ST using PC Ditto. PD 53: Adventureware - 5 text adventures: Island of Mystery, Crime, The Haunted Mission, Nuclear Submarine Adventure and Terror in the Ice Caverns PD 54: Landing Party (menu-driven SF game) and Marooned Again (text adventure with very rudimentary graphics) PD 55: Palace Adventure and Gymnasium - two text-only adventures PD 56: Kingdom of Kroz - arcade-style game exploring 25 levels of dungeons to find the Amulet of Kroz. Runs rather slowly! PD 57: Golden Wombat of Destiny - British text-only adventure PD 62: Quest for Kukulklan, Under the Ice - two text adventures Utilities. PD 32: DC Formatter, Filefix 2, QuickRUN, QUIKFIND, Restart, DC STuffer and Word Processing Toolkit PD 33: ST Writer Elite v3.0. Excellent PD word processor which saves as ASCII - ideal for sending in your SynTax contributions!! PD 45: Address book utility written by Clive Swain. New version. Mike and the Mechanics Demos. @~PD 35: Batman demo @~PD 36: UFO demo PD 43: Dr Who demo - DOUBLE-SIDED PD 48: NASA Slideshow - 1/2 meg version, no sound PD 49: NASA Slideshow - 1 meg, DOUBLE-SIDED, has sampled music from 2001 - A Space Odyssey. PD 52: Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) demo - DOUBLE-SIDED The next few disks are shareware so they cost œ3.50, œ1.00 more than PD software because œ1.00 of the price goes to the author. (Please add œ1.00 extra outside UK/Europe to cover postage) SW 1: The Grimoire, author RW Lee (STAC, text/graphics) SW 2: Toil and Trouble, author Pat Winstanley (STAC, text/graphics, plus datafile) SW 3: Datafile for Case of the Mixed-up Shymer, author Sandra Sharkey. The adventure is on PD disk 4 SW 4: Les Rigden's Dungeon Master Guide SW 5: Les Rigden's disk of maps for Xenomorph If you have any disks suitable for inclusion in the list, please contact me. Payment for PD and shareware disks should be made as cheques or postal orders.