Disks available from Syntax The following PD adventures and related disks are available from SynTax for œ2.50 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. Please an extra œ1.00/disk if ordering from outside UK/Europe to cover postage. @+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. John R. Barnsley's Adventure Help disks. PD 1: ST Adventure Solution Disk 1 PD 2: ST Adventure Solution Disk 2 PD 3: ST Adventure Solution Disk 3 PD 29: ST Adventure Solution Disk 4 PD 58: ST Adventure Solution Disk 5 PD 125: ST Adventure Solution Disk 6 PD 44: Mixed Adventure Solution Disk 1 PD 116: Spectrum Solutions Disk 1 PD 117: Spectrum Solutions Disk 2 PD 118: Spectrum Solutions Disk 3 PD 119: Spectrum Solutions Disk 4 PD 120: Commodore Solutions Disk 1 PD 121: Commodore Solutions Disk 2 PD 122: Commodore Solutions Disk 3 PD 123: Commodore Solutions Disk 4 PD 124: Map Disk 1 - contains maps for the Larry series (1,2 and 3) and Gold Rush plus slideshow program and printer option, DOUBLE-SIDED PD 59: Bard's Tale 1 Game Help Disk, maps and text, DOUBLE-SIDED Alex van Kaam's map disks, all DOUBLE-SIDED with slideshow program PD 61: Bloodwych maps PD 129: Bloodwych Data Disk maps PD 131: Xenomorph maps Other Adventure Help. PD 11: Dungeon Master maps and demo of the DM cheat PD 12: Dungeon Master help files PD 81: More Dungeon Master help as maps and text files PD 60: Chaos Strikes Back DOUBLE-SIDED disk of maps, including isometric 3D version of level 5 STAC Games - all are text/graphics unless stated. 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 PD 89: Snatch and Crunch - "adult" game, text-only. Play both characters, Snatch and Crunch, as you try to rescue Snatch's girlfriend, Jara, from a nasty wizard PD 90: The Elven Crystals - a text/graphics game with a hidden adventure inside it! PD 92: Tomb of Death - text-only .... can you escape? PD 94: Treasure of the New Kingdom - text/graphics. Explore the Valley of the Kings and find the crown of the Pharoah Menes PD 130: The Grimoire - updated version STOS games PD 91: Time Switch - text/graphics adventure where you must find your way back to your own time from the past. DOUBLE-SIDED PD 93: Treasure Search - with source code. Text/graphics, music, sound effects and speech. Fairly simple treasure hunt game but most impressive. Especially good for kids. DOUBLE-SIDED RPGs with rudimentary graphics. PD 5: Hack! v1.03 complete with ramdisk, DOUBLE-SIDED PD 25: Larn v1.00 PD 37: DDST PD 78: HASCS - German RPG in MONO. Comes with mono emulator, DOUBLE-SIDED PD 88: Unix Moria v 4.87 - single-player dungeon game ... find the Balrog in the deeper levels. I MEG, DOUBLE-SIDED PD 127: Nethack v 2.3 1 MEG, DOUBLE-SIDED 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 PD 128: Elvira demo - DOUBLE-SIDED. Warning - this is a demo of a horror game and is NOT for the squeamish! 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 PD 63: Der Ring Des Nibelungen PD 64: Star Portal - DOUBLE-SIDED PD 65: Susan, A Lustful Game - adult only! PD 66: Tamoret - DOUBLE-SIDED PD 67: Pork - Zork spoof PD 68: Son of Stagefright PD 69: Easter Egg Hunt PD 70: Fast Lane PD 71: House of the O's PD 72: Pork II PD 73: Pyramid of Muna PD 74: Quest for the Holy Grail PD 75: Sir Ramic Hobbs and the High Level Gorilla PD 76: The Battle of Philip against the Forces of Creation PD 77: The Pilot or A Flight Into Fantasy 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, Prisoner of the Dark Pearl, ~Doppyworld @+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 - mouse-controlled graphic game PD 79: Article on writing adventures with GFA Basic by Stefan Postuma plus three GFA Basic low-res adventures by another author, Dungeon (graphic maze-type game), Magik (text) and Moonstone (text) and Mercy Mission (any res), a text game by the author of Darkness is Forever (on PD 40) PD 80: Under Berkwood - graphic keyboard-controlled arc/adv with an editor to design your own levels PD 126: World - a text-only game downloaded from Minitel PC Shareware Adventures to run on the ST using a PC emulator. 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 Slideshows etc. PD 82: SF pix and Tinyview program PD 83: Fantasy pix and Tinyview program Mind Games....and "board" games. PD 84: Puzpuz - MONO jigsaw program from Germany with mono emulator PD 85: Another jigsaw program, in colour this time - excellent! PD 86: Drachen - German colour version of Shanghai - v-e-r-y addictive! PD 87: Around The World in 80 Days - like the board game. Runs in mono but a mono emulator is provided. ST News. This magazine has, sadly, finished but while it ran it was excellent, containing PD programs, articles, features and also adventure reviews, solutions etc. Each disk has at least one adventure-related section, some as many as 6 while the Final Compendium has 10 on two disks. None of the disks is STE-compatible. @~PD 95: Vol 1, Compendium @~PD 96: Vol 2, Issue 1 PD 97: Vol 2, Issue 2 @~PD 98: Vol 2, Issue 3 PD 99: Vol 2, Issue 4 @~PD 100: Vol 2, Issue 5 PD 101: Vol 2, Issue 6 @~PD 102: Vol 2, Issue 7 PD 103: Vol 2, Issue 8 @~PD 104: Vol 3, Issue 1 PD 105: Vol 3, Issue 2 @~PD 106: Vol 3, Issue 3 PD 107: Vol 3, Issue 4 @~PD 108: Vol 3, Issue 5 PD 109: Vol 3, Issue 6 @~PD 110 Vol 3, Issue 7 @~PD 111: Vol 4, Issue 1 PD 112: Vol 4, Issue 2 @~PD 113: Vol 4, Issue 3 @~PD 114/115: The Final Compendium. +Two DOUBLE-SIDED disks which contain the best of ST News and must be used together. The pair of disks costs œ3.50 or if you are sending a contribution on disk, you can enclose a blank disk or œ1.00 to get the second disk. 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: Now PD! See PD 130 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 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.