Pirate Island - author David Meny
      (Text adventure, one of three adventures on PD283)

              Played on a PC by "Kedenan"

This adventure is written in basic and must therefore be loaded
from BASIC, for which purpose a basic interpreter is provided on
the disk for your convenience. In case you don't know how to do
this, I will go through it. At the MS-DOS prompt, insert PD283,
type BASIC <CR>, when it loads type LOAD"PIRATE <CR>, when this
loads type RUN <CR>, and the text to start the adventure will
appear on the screen and the rest of the text will remain in
memory.

You can use the Interpreter to load any Basic Programs, at the
prompt just type LOAD"(program)

The introduction to the adventure states:-
"Well, young pirate! Thar she blows! Thars the old Mobby 'Ick.
Your great - oh so great - grandfather named 'er. Well, back to
business.  You 'ust find thee location by longitude and latitude
of the SPOOKY Pirate Island, explore it and bring back the famed
Spanish coin supposedly to be thar.

Don't try to cross any of me' crew or else.  Especiall' don't try
to cross me'. You bett'r find the coin before you come back to
me' ship or else this' cutlass will be you' last wish!

Now yous begin on me' ship 'The Eagle's Nest' and you must locate
the island's longitude and latitude from yous' sources and those
on me' ship.

When yous' reach the island - if yous' do - explore it for the
coin and then return its' back to me' ship.

Have thar good time! "

There is no facility to SAVE and RESTORE the game so be careful
with your risky moves. Remember the island is very, very,
dangerous!

You start asleep, dreaming of valiant pirates who sail the seas in
search of new lands laden with most valuable treasure, hidden in
most dangerous locations. You dream of adventurous fights between
pirates over chests of gold coins from a long time ago. You dream
on with the rocking of the ship, which suddenly jerks and awakens
you.

Have a good look round your cabin and see what you can find!

Read your Pirate's Book and check for the correction in the
Library on board the Pirate's Ship. Search the Ship from top to
bottom and see what you can find what might be useful when you get
to the Island.

When you are satisfied that you have obtained the correct
co-ordinates, knock on the Captain's door and answer his
questions.  After another wander round the ship the Captain will
come and tell you that the ship has arrived at the Island and you
can go ashore.

Don't touch the "garlic" until after the Captain has given you the
bag of silver. Go back to the cook and give him the bag of silver
for the garlic. The garlic will be useful and well worth the money
when you get to the Island, as it will keep some bats at bay, and
so keep you out of harm.

You can now proceed ashore in accordance with the Captain's
instructions and see what you can find on the Island?  But
remember it's a very dangerous place.

With a bit of luck you will find the gold coin and go back to the
ship, when the Captain will welcome you back on board!

NOTE. If you get killed at any stage of the game you must start
again at the BASIC prompt, because if you accept the offer from
the adventure to start again, and have another try, the ship will
never get to the Island.  So type "N" when asked and LOAD and RUN
at the "ok" basic prompt. Type SYSTEM if you wish to return to
MS-DOS and try another day!

It's a quite good adventure, but a bit of a bind when you can't
save and restore again.

The PD disk is well worth it, if even only to get a Basic
Interpreter and and Basic Programming Disc.