PD Disks available from Syntax - now up to 277 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 256: ST Disk 9 *PD 44: Mixed Adventure Solution Disk 1 *PD 116, PD 117, PD 118, PD 119, PD 120: Spectrum Disks 1-5 *PD 120, PD 121, PD 122, PD 123, PD 141: Commodore Disks 1-5 The last 11 disks are useful if you've upgraded to an ST or Amiga from a Spectrum or Commodore Other Solution Disks. PD 240: TBE Solutions Disk 1. ST conversion of Amiga disk 211. Autoboots, 30 solutions to dump to screen or printer. PD 271: The Blag solution and maps by Geoff Atkinson, one of the authors. D/S 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 *PD 254: Silicon Dreams *PD 255: Jewels of Darkness *PD 276: Time and Magik Trilogy 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. (Run in low res on Amiga with emulator) *PD 61: Bloodwych maps *PD 129: Bloodwych Data Disk maps *PD 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: SimCity 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 PD 251: Five Chaos dungeons created using the editor PD 252: Five more Chaos dungeons PD 253: SimCity editor, terraformer, cheat program and printer option 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 by The Fink 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 PD 247: Don't Bank on it PD 250: Eagle Star - another game by The Fink, D/S PD 259: Elven Crystals II - follow-up to PD 90 PD 277: Dr Wot and the Grime-Lords - text/graphics, looks good but has awful spelling! D/S CAT - "C" Adventure Toolkit PD 248: CAT - write your own text games, shareware, D/S, contains ST and PC versions, needs C compiler PD 249: Awe-chasm - written with CAT, follow-up to Snatch and Crunch (PD89), adult, D/S 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 UMS. PD 166: Selection of UMS scenarios 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 - shareware try-out 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 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 PD 258: Mystic Well - very good DM-style game. Shareware version so no save routine Demos etc. Some playable, some rolling demos PD 13: Zak McKracken PD 14: Bloodwych, needs two joysticks PD 21: Infocom sampler PD 22: Sundog PD 24: The Pawn PD 26: King's Quest II PD 27: Black Cauldron PD 28: Tanglewood, D/S PD 30: The Jade Stone PD 31: Lancelot PD 51: Zeitgeist PD 135: Iron Lord, D/S PD 128: Elvira, D/S. PD 136: Personal Nightmare PD 137: Space Quest I and King's Quest III PD 138: King's Quest IV and Larry 2, D/S PD 150: Captive demo, resets after 5 mins PD 154: Debut and Elvira PD 155: Damocles PD 241: 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 PD 39: AGT Source Code 1 - 10 AGT adventures. Requires AGT disk. PD 245: AGTBIG - write larger games 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 PD 213: Andkara PD 214: Escape from the ELI PD 216: Weekend Survival PD 218: Magic Mansion PD 221: NMR2 PD 223: Pyramid PD 225: Storms PD 227: Two Ways PD 231: Orientation to the Van Pelt Library PD 233: NMR PD 235: Whatever We Decide to Call this Game PD 257: Around the World in Eighty Days PD 260: Lady in Green PD 261: Deena of Kolini and Lottery - adult PD 262: Betty Carlson's Big Date and Christian Text Adventure PD 266: Crusade PD 269: Elf's Adventure 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 (2 versions, original and updated) 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! PD 246: Sleuth - Cleudo-type whodunnit 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 containing the best of ST News. œ3.50 the pair or œ2.50 plus a blank disk. PD 272: ST News Vol 6, Issue 2 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. Runs SynTax and those marked "*". *PD 190: ADVSYS plus an extended version of Colossal Adventure *PD 191: Castle of Doom - text and graphics *PD 192: The Golden Fleece - text *PD 193: The Holy Grail - text, needs 1 meg *PD 275: Midnight Thief, text or text/graphics adventure by Dylan Thomas. 1 meg. Disable any external drives if selecting graphics mode. 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. *PD 210: WWF Amiga Help Disk 2 - more cheats, solutions and maps *PD 211: MWB Amiga Solution Disk - mostly Sierra, Lucasfilm and RPG *PD 270: Eye of the Beholder maps and playing guide by Geoff Atkinson (co-author of The Blag). Load from workbench. PC Shareware Adventures which also run on the ST using a PC emulator; text-only unless stated. State disk size required. PD 53: Crime, Island of Mystery, The Haunted Mission, Nuclear Submarine Adventure, Terror in the Ice Caverns PD 54: Landing Party and Marooned Again (few small 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: Four With Battune (Museum, Caverns City, Battune in Wonderland and Battune the Sailor PD 198: AGT for the PC. œ3.50 (multiple 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 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). PD 263: 10 Basic Adventures - all with a travel theme (Marco Polo, Tour de France etc) PD 264: Another Lifeless Planet (and Me with No Beer...) PD 265: Crusade PD 266: CAT - see ST section, same contents but on PC disk PD 267: Son of Stagefright PD 268: Elf's Adventure PD 273: Four More With Battune (Battune Becomes an Actor, Battune - Crimefighter, Battune goes on Safari and Battune Meets Sleeping Beauty) PD 274: Supernova by Scott Miller 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. Needs a hard disk or high-density floppies to play, thus PC only. 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.