PD Disks available from Syntax - now containing 243 disks! 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 Other Solution Disks. PD 240: TBE Solutions Disk 1. ST conversion of Amiga disk 211. Autoboots, 30 solutions to dump to screen or printer. 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 *PD 242: Leather Goddesses, Wishbringer, Hollywood Hijinx, Deadline *PD 243: King's Quest I, II, III, IV and Shadowgate 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: A new DM dungeon created using the editor PD 187: Sim City terraformer and editors for Chaos, Bloodwych, Autoduel, Phantasie I and II, Roadwar 2000 and Rogue PD 238/9: Drakkhen solution and maps on two disks (one D/S); must be used together. œ3.50 the two or œ2.50 plus a blank disk 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", text-only PD 90: The Elven Crystals PD 92: Tomb of Death - text PD 94: Treasure of the New Kingdom PD 130: The Grimoire - updated version PD 149: The Search - educational game 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 PD 241: Demo of 3D Construction Kit 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 xAGT Adventures, text-only. None will run on the Amiga. PD 38: The Adventure Game Toolkit - American adventure writing system to produce text-only Infocom-style adventure games Now on v 3.1 which includes AGTBIG 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 - D/S PD 65: Susan - adult only PD 66: Tamoret - D/S 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 PD 77: The Pilot PD 146: Dragon Slayer - adult PD 161: Mold 1 PD 183: Disenchanted PD 184: Mystery of Old St Joseph PD 212: Lasar - sounds like SF but is actually a fantasy game PD 213: Andkara - another classic fantasy game PD 214: Escape from the ELI PD 216: Weekend Survival The above two games were written during research into Computer Assisted Language Learning for students learning English as a second language PD 218: Magic Mansion - you play a young girl, held captive by an evil wizard and must escape PD 221: NMR2 - This time, you're a research chemist investigating invading creatures who can transform their appearance and must use an NMR Spectrometer to save the world (see PD 233 NMR) PD 223: Pyramid - discovery the secrets of the Pharaoh's tomb by doing, rather than collecting, the right things, and discover the ultimate meaning of life PD 225: Storms - recover your desceased uncle's invention to collect a vast inheritance PD 227: Two Ways - a Christian text adventure, entertaining and full of puzzles, traps and humour. Will you take the easy path or the hard one through it? PD 231: Orientation to the Van Pelt Library - a strange one this, I can't quite work it out! PD 233: NMR - originally written as a game to help people learn how to use the Bruker NMR Spectronmeter PD 235: Whatever we decide to call this game - game from Australia where you play a bumbling freshman during his first day at Tumbulgum University. STAWS. PD 188: ST Adventure Writing System - another adventure writing system for text games. Includes about 9 sample games 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 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 PD 189: Escape! 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 now v4.1. Excellent PD word processor which saves as ASCII - ideal for sending in your SynTax contributions!! D/S 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 contain the best of ST News. œ3.50 the pair or œ2.50 plus a blank disk. Slideshows complete with Tinyview program PD 82: SF pix PD 83 Fantasy pix Comms Programs. PD 132: UniTerm v 2.0c PD 133: Vantern v3.8 PD 134: StarTerm v1.11 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 Amiga Help Disks *PD 204: Amiga Solution Disk 1 - 60 16-bit adventure solutions *PD 205: Amiga Solution Disk 2 - More 16-bit adventure solutions 204-205 are auto-load and run. Type MOST to display required solution. *PD 206: Amiga Solution Disk 3 - 25 more 16-bit solutions *PD 207: Amiga Solution Disk 4 - 8-bit sols for those with C64s too *PD 208: Amiga Solution Disk 5 - more 8-bit sols 206-208 are CLI-accessed disks with files in ASCII format. *PD 209: WWF 'ACE' Amiga Help Disk - auto-load with musical soundtrack. Cheats for 100 games and over 30 solutions. However, the files are crunched in some way and there may be problems loading one of two of them. That still leaves plenty though! *PD 210: WWF Amiga Help Disk 2 - more cheats, solutions and maps *PD 211: MWB Amiga Solution Disk - mostly Sierra, Lucasfilm and RPG solutions. PC Shareware Adventures to run on the ST using a PC emulator; text-only unless stated. See the ST AGT section for descriptions of the newer AGT additions. 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: Two games, 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 PD 195: Andkara PD 196: McMurphy's Mansion PD 197: Museum, Caverns City, Wonderland and Sailor PD 198/199: AGT for the PC. œ3.50 for two disks. PD 200: What Personal Computer? PD 201: Adventure (version of Colossal), Castaway, South American Trek, Hellfire and Sam Spade PD 202: Dragon's Lair Magic Land and Skullduggery (text with on-screen map). PD 203: Dracula in London (text/graphics) and Moon Mountain Adventure PD 215: Escape from the ELI PD 217: Weekend Survival PD 219: Magic Mansion PD 220: Mold 1 PD 222: NMR2 PD 224: Pyramid PD 226: Storms PD 228: Two Ways PD 229: Crime to the Ninth Power - detective game, the winner of the 1990 AGT Contest. Features pop-up hints! PD 232: Orientation to the Van Pelt Library PD 234: NMR PD 236: Whatever We Decide to Call this Game PD 237: AGT Utilities - AGTBIG (write larger games), POPHINT (create a pop-up hint system for your game), PRETTY ("pretty print" AGT source files), SCRIPTER (script game to a disk file). Would presumably work with the PC version of AGT with an emulator PC only adventures - will NOT run with an emulator on the ST PD 230: Humongous Cave - an expanded version of Colossal with 1000 points, over 200 creatures and treasures, 300 locations and 10 "secret" words. The first person to find them wins $100! Needs a hard disk or high-density floppies to play, thus PC only. Shareware disks follow.... The next few ST 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.