PD Disks available from Syntax The following disks are available for œ2.50 or see the contributions section to know how to get one free! See earlier issues of SynTax for more details of older disks. Please add œ1.00 to total cost @+outside UK/Europe to cover postage. Titles in ~contrast +are NOT STE-compatible. D/S means double-sided. "*" means a disk will run on the Amiga, with or without an emulator, "x" means it won't. ------------------------------------------------------------------- To: SynTax, 9 Warwick Road, Sidcup, Kent, DA14 6LJ Please send the following disks (total cost œ.....................): Cheque/POs should be made payable to S Medley. PD............................ PD............................... PD............................ PD............................... From: Name......................... Address....................... .............................................Postcode............. John R. Barnsley's Adventure Help disks - all as text solutions. *PD 1: ST Disk 1 *PD 2: ST Disk 2 *PD 3: ST Disk 3 *PD 29: ST Disk 4 *PD 58: ST Disk 5 *PD 125: ST Disk 6 *PD 148: ST Disk 7 *PD 186: ST Disk 8 *PD 44: Mixed Adventure Solution Disk 1 *PD 116: Spectrum Disk 1 *PD 117: Spectrum Disk 2 *PD 118: Spectrum Disk 3 *PD 119: Spectrum Disk 4 *PD 140: Spectrum Disk 5 *PD 120: Commodore Disk 1 *PD 121: Commodore Disk 2 *PD 122: Commodore Disk 3 *PD 123: Commodore Disk 4 *PD 141: Commodore Disk 5 John's Map Disks, all D/S with slideshow and printer option. *PD 124: Larry 1,2 and 3 and Gold Rush *PD 142: Indiana Jones, Police Quest 1, Space Quest III *PD 143: Guild of Thieves, Pawn, Jinxter, Corruption John's Game Help Disks. PD 59: Bard's Tale 1 Game Help Disk, maps and text, D/S Alex van Kaam's map disks, all D/S with slideshow program. xPD 61: Bloodwych maps xPD 129: Bloodwych Data Disk maps xPD 131: Xenomorph maps Other RPG 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 D/S disk of maps, including isometric 3D version of level 5 PD 144: More Chaos maps PD 145: Chaos help, portraits and pix PD 151: Ultima IV help, mostly text files PD 156: Chaos Editor and Bloodwych Editor PD 159: Chaos maps - isometric 3D maps of Levels 3 and 5. D/S PD 162: Chaos editor, Chaos hints/pix, Populous editor PD 179: More DM help and maps including downloaded file PD 180: Attention, DM fans - a new dungeon! PD 187: Sim City terraformer and editors for Chaos, Bloodwych, Autoduel, Phantasie I and II, Roadwar 2000 and Rogue 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 PD 90: The Elven Crystals PD 92: Tomb of Death - text-only PD 94: Treasure of the New Kingdom PD 130: The Grimoire - updated version PD 149: The Search - an educational game where you search for information about a family, the player taking the part of a historian PD 165: Public Investigations PD 175: Trials and Tribulations of an Apprentice Wizard STOS games. PD 91: Time Switch - text/graphics, D/S PD 93: Treasure Search - with source code. Great effects, simple treasure hunt game, especially good for kids. D/S PD 139: Daze Aster - D/S Talespin games. PD 176: Mountain, SDI and Mansion - 3 Talespin games written by children PD 181: The Wolf and the Seven Kids - aimed at 5-9 year olds Unclassifiable! PD 152: Dungeons and Dragons creator - roll characters and populate a city to use in D&D-type games. The character creator isn't 100% complete as this is a shareware disk *PD 158: Mapper - You asked for it and here it is - an utility for drawing, saving and printing maps for RPGs and text games PD 163: Character generators for Traveller and Star Frontiers UMS. PD 166: Selection of UMS scenarios RPGs with rudimentary graphics. PD 5: Hack! v1.03 complete with ramdisk, D/S PD 25: Larn v1.00 PD 37: DDST PD 78: HASCS - MONO German RPG with mono emulator, D/S PD 127: Nethack v2.3 1 MEG, D/S PD 147: Hero II - RPG/arcade adv, demo, 1 MEG, D/S 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, D/S 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 - D/S. NOT for the nervous! PD 135: Iron Lord demo D/S PD 136: Personal Nightmare demo - NOT for the nervous! PD 137: Space Quest I and King's Quest III demos PD 138: King's Quest IV and Larry 2 slideshow, D/S PD 150: Captive demo, resets after 5 mins PD 154: Non-playable demo of Debut and demo of Elvira PD 155: Non-playable demo of Damocles 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. xPD 38: The Adventure Game Toolkit - American adventure writing system to produce text-only Infocom-style adventure games xPD 39: AGT Source Code 1 - 10 AGT adventures. Requires AGT disk to run xPD 41: A Dudley Dilemma xPD 42: Tark xPD 50: Love's Fiery Rapture xPD 63: Der Ring Des Nibelungen xPD 64: Star Portal - D/S xPD 65: Susan, A Lustful Game - adult only! xPD 66: Tamoret - D/S xPD 67: Pork - Zork spoof xPD 68: Son of Stagefright xPD 69: Easter Egg Hunt xPD 70: Fast Lane xPD 71: House of the O's xPD 72: Pork II xPD 73: Pyramid of Muna xPD 74: Quest for the Holy Grail xPD 75: Sir Ramic Hobbs and the High Level Gorilla xPD 76: The Battle of Philip against the Forces of Creation xPD 77: The Pilot or A Flight Into Fantasy xPD 146: Dragon Slayer - adult xPD 161: Mold 1 xPD 183: Disenchanted - fantasy game in which you're summoned by a Circle of Ancients to recover a stolen artifact xPD 184: Mystery of Old St Joseph - set in Port St Joe, Florida TADS. PD 177: Text Adventure Development System - write your own games. Register to get full instructions. Includes the game Ditch Day Drifter. Needs 1 meg PD 178: Deep Space Drifter - written with TADS. Needs 1 meg STAWS. PD 188: ST Adventure Writing System - another adventure writing system for text games. Includes about 9 sample games 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 plus 3 low-res adventures - Dungeon (graphic maze-type game), Magik (text), Moonstone (text) - and Mercy Mission (any res), a text game by the author of Darkness is Forever (on PD 40) PD 80: Under Berkwood - arc/adv with editor PD 126: World PD 161: Isthorn - text with spot graphic PD 164: Grampa Howard Mysteries (text, multiple-choice) and Naarjek Data Systems (hacking game) PD 185: Hassle Court Adventure - become the Head Pupil at your school PD 189: Escape! - can you escape after you're captured by a band of goblins? PC Shareware Adventures to run on the ST using a PC emulator; text-only unless stated. PD 53: Crime, Island of Mystery, The Haunted Mission, Nuclear Submarine Adventure, 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 PD 56: Kingdom of Kroz (arc/adv) and Beyond the Titanic PD 57: Golden Wombat of Destiny PD 62: Quest for Kukulklan, Under the Ice PD 153: Jacaranda Jim PD 157: Humbug - evaluation copy, saves/loads to RAM only PD 167: Betty Carlson's Big Date PD 168: Deena of Kolini - adult PD 169: Christian Text Adventure and Lottery PD 170: Advanced Xoru - evaluation copy of text adventure PD 171: Moraff's Revenge (RPG) PD 172: Evets (RPG) PD 173: Dungeons and Dragons (RPG) PD 174: Nirvana PD 194: Adv551 (enhanced version of Colossal) and Enchanted Castle where you must not only escape from the castle with two treasures but destroy the place as well! PD 195: Andkara - fantasy AGT adventure where you go to bed one night and then wake the next day to find your bed has been transported to a forest glade! PD 196: McMurphy's Mansion - text game with built-in map. Find the inheritance left to you by your eccentric uncle. PD 197: Museum, Caverns City, Wonderland and Sailor - four text adventures to undertake, accompanied by a strange alien, Battune. PD 198/199: AGT for the PC. œ3.50 for two disks. PD 200: What Personal Computer? - AGT adventure where you take the part of a reviewer and must get the review to a magazine before the deadline. PD 201: Adventure (version of Colossal), Castaway (can you survive after your ship is destroyed?), South American Trek (travel through the continent, gathering information for the Government), Hellfire (escape with the devil's treasures) and Sam Spade (detective adventure). PD 202: Dragon's Lair (kill the dragon, recover the King's treasures and save the land of Qwerty from destruction), Magic Land (kill the dragon etc again) and Skullduggery (find the smuggler's treasure. On-screen map). PD 203: Dracula in London (text/graphics) and Moon Mountain Adventure (retrieve treasures stolen years ago from a stagecoach). Amiga Disks. *PD 182: ST emulator for Amiga. Will run SynTax and copes well with non-graphics disks. I have marked any I know will run with a "*" If any Amiga owners would like to try any of the other disks listed here to see if they'll also run, if they don't, I'll refund their money. *PD 190: ADVSYS - an text adventure writing system (with full documentation), plus an extended version of Colossal Adventure (with speech, so runs sl-o-w-ly!) *PD 191: Castle of Doom - text and graphics adventure *PD 192: The Golden Fleece - complex text adventure from Jim MacBrayne *PD 193: The Holy Grail - Jim's second text adventure - needs 1 meg Mike and the Mechanics Demos. @~PD 35: Batman demo @~PD 36: UFO demo PD 43: Dr Who demo - D/S PD 48: NASA Slideshow - 1/2 meg version, no sound PD 49: NASA Slideshow - 1 meg, D/S with sampled music PD 52: Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) demo - D/S Mind Games....and "board" games. PD 84: Puzpuz - MONO jigsaw program from Germany with mono emulator PD 85: Colour jigsaw program PD 86: Drachen - German colour version of Shanghai PD 87: Around The World in 80 Days - like the board game. Runs in mono but a mono emulator is provided. Utilities. PD 32: DC Formatter, Filefix 2, QuickRUN, QUIKFIND, Restart, DC STuffer and Word Processing Toolkit PD 33: ST Writer Elite v3.8. Excellent PD word processor which saves as ASCII - ideal for sending in your SynTax contributions!! PD 45: Address book utility written by Clive Swain ST News. @~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. Slideshows etc. PD 82: SF pix and Tinyview program PD 83: Fantasy pix and Tinyview program Comms Programs. PD 132: UniTerm v 2.0c PD 133: Vantern v3.8 PD 134: StarTerm v1.11 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. SW 2: Toil and Trouble (STAC, text/graphics, plus datafile) SW 3: Datafile for Shymer (adventure on PD 4) SW 4: Les Rigden's Dungeon Master Guide SW 5: Les Rigden's disk of maps for Xenomorph SW 6: Evaluation copy of Operation Blue Sunrise @~If you have any disks suitable for inclusion in the list, please @~contact me.