Amiga Disks from SynTax Single disks cost œ2.50 or see the contributions section to know how to get one free! Please add œ1.00 to total cost outside UK/Europe to cover postage. Some disks in this section are in ST format and run using the emulator. These are marked with a "*" and any special loading instructions listed. @~New this issue. @~Thanks to Neil Currie for sending in Intergalactic Mercenaries, @~a strategy/war game like Rebelstor on the Spectrum. It's on Disk @~989. @~The catalogue commences on the next screen: Text, graphic and text/graphics adventures Disk 190: ADVSYS plus an extended version of Colossal Adventure Disk 191: Castle of Doom - text and graphics Disk 192: The Golden Fleece - text Disk 193: The Holy Grail - text, needs 1 meg Disk 275: Midnight Thief - text or text/graphics adventure. 1 meg. Runs perfectly on A500+/A600 using Disk 510 Disk 429: Catacomb - icon-driven, graphical adventure (NOT A1200) Disk 508: Thrallbound - text/graphics Disk 509: A Night at the Top - text Disk 564: World v1.00 + 6 Amigabasic adventures - Atlantis, Grungy Towers, Jedi, Ring World, Safari and Star Trek. All text. Disk 565: Zut Alors! V2.00 + Life After Death V1.1, both text Disk 566: Dark Staff + Jungle Quest. Dark Staff is an emulated Spectrum 128K game, emulator included. Jungle Quest is a TACL game, a glorified demo, but quite playable. Both text/graphics. Dark Staff may be A500 only. Disk 578: Frustration - V920420/11.49/001 - text Disk 580: Rolta (Return of the living Text Adventure) - V1.0B - cut-down version of a shareware game, lacking one of the graphics disks and the SAVE/LOAD facility. Only 10 locations can be visited and the game can be completed in 30 moves once you know what to do. 2 disks, only œ2.50 (A1200 OK) Disk 585: TALISMAN - ** REQUIRES 2 Mb. OF MEMORY ! ** - mouse controlled and mono graphics like digitized pencil drawings. 2 disks, œ3.50 Disk 625: Storyland 2 - a point and click adventure for children. Disk 626: Starbase 13 - a point and click graphics adventure, written with AMOS. 2 disks, œ3.50 Disk 653: Atlantis - Colourful, graphical game, mouse control Disk 654: Box + Maths Adventure - Box, written in AMOS, is the second (and much better) text adventure by the author of LIFE AFTER DEATH. Maths Adventure is a neat puzzle-style game based on solving simple equations. Both okay on A1200. Disk 656: Exorcism - CAG text/graphics adventure, 2 disks, œ3.50 Disk 657: Mystery 2144 AD - Talespin game Disk 658: Neighbours - graphical mouse-driven adventure featuring sampled images from the telly! 2 disk set œ3.50. Disk 725: Battle Force + Island of Nephoton - Battle Force is an AMOS text adventure with a few samples. Island of Nephoton is also a text adventure which runs in a CLI window. OK on A1200. Disk 733: Mugsy's Revenge - Amiga version of the Spectrum "classic", written with AMOS. Poor grammar and runs slowly. Disk 755: Temporal Misplacement - good text adventure with digitized graphics, written with AMOS. Appears to need WorkBench 2 or higher. Okay on A1200. Disk 756: Ethos - simple graphic adventure Disk 772: Gory Story - text adventure, needs 1 meg, works on all Amigas Disk 783: Zut Alors 2 - text adventure with graphic panel for movement, inventory etc if you prefer + Infocom Toolkit (to run PC Infocoms on Amiga). (A1200 OK) Disk 787: Battlestar (A1200 OK) Disk 788: Knightwoode (A1200 OK) Disk 810: Timezoner - 2 disk set, œ3.50 (A1200 OK) Disk 811: Lethal Formula - written using GRAC (A1200 OK) Disk 826: Hazardous Holiday - author Philip Richmond, written using CAT. 1 meg req'd. Disk 831: Mystery (text) + Eternal Rome (strategy) + Wizard Wars (hex-based strategy) + Knights (Hack-Moria RPG clone) Disk 832: Spacejest (text) + Mount Doom (RPG) - see also Disk 958 Disk 848: Suitcase - text and graphics, two disk set, œ3.50 Disk 849: Escape from a Very Large Cave - point and click graphic adventure, warning, it is evidently very poor! Disk 855: Madhouse 1 - Indian Spirit, 2 disks œ3.50 Disk 856: Psychoward Disk 904: Gecko's Adventures 1 - Ice Princess, Timeless Empire and Adventure Disk 905: Gecko's Adventures 2 - Labyrinth II (text RPG), Treasure Island (written with Hatrack 2) and Totally Useless Game (multiple choice) Disk 911: I Rescued Elvis from Communist Alien Jerks (text and graphics, requires Workbench 2.0 or above) Disk 917: Dead of Night, 3 disks, œ5.00 Disk 920: Piggery Jokery, author Philip Richmond, written with CAT. 1 drive and 1 meg required, text only Disk 924: Alice and High Tech Drifter, both written with TADS, plus source codes Disk 951: Paul's Journey - text adventure Disk 952: Amiga Inform Adventures Disk 1 - Balances, Tube Trouble, Curses and Christminster plus AmigaZip and instructions. Needs WB 2.0+ Disk 953: The Mission, a text adventure from Jim MacBrayne Disk 953: Amiga Inform Adventures Disk 2 - Magic Toyshop, Gumshoe, Paper Chase and Odieus' Quest plus instructions etc. WB 2.0+ needed Disk 954: Amiga Inform Adventures Disk 3 - Busted, Claustrophobia, Inhumane and All Quiet Library Front plus instructions etc. WB 2.0+ needed Disk 958: A new version of Space Jest (text, see also Disk 832) with an end animation, plus Master Mind, a standard Mastermind game, and Time Prisoner, a small game written using the ADMS adventure game creator. Okay on A1200 Disk 976: Back to the Future 4 text/graphic adventure, written using CAT. It's a 3 disk set and costs œ4.00 Disk 981: Paranormal Palace, CAT text only, all Amigas AGT Adventures (all A1200 compatible) Disk 353: AGT text adventure writing utility. 2 drives recommended. Disk 426: AGTBIG for the Amiga Disk 354: Crusade Disk 355: Andkara Disk 358: Alice Disk 359: Battle of Philip... Disk 360: Tark Disk 361: Quest for the Holy Grail Disk 371: Pork Disk 372: Pork 2 Disk 396: Star Portal Disk 397: Dudley Dilemma Disk 398: Love's Fiery Rapture Disk 419: Disenchanted Disk 420: Lost Stone Mansion Disk 421: Tomb of the Ancient Pharaohs Disk 443: Castle of the Alchemists Disk 444: Apprentice Disk 445: New England Gothic Disk 490: Sir Ramic Hobbs Disk 491: House of the Os Disk 492: Easter Egg Hunt Disk 493: Fast Lane Disk 494: The Pilot Disk 502: Oklib's Revenge - cutdown version of full game Disk 544: Fleece Quest Disk 545: Tales of Tavisa Disk 582: The Detective Disk 586: Helvera - cutdown version of full game Disk 587: Space Aliens Laughed at my Cardigan Disk 588: Lady in Green Disk 590: What Personal Computer Disk 591: What! No Low Alcohol Mineral Water? Disk 592: Time Squared Disk 593: Zim Greenleaf's Laboratory Disk 614: Helvera - cutback Disk version Disk 615: Storms Disk 616: Pyramid of Muna Disk 869: Deadly Labyrinth + Wizard's Castle Disk 870: Escape from Prison Island + Escape from the Eli Disk 871: Cercla Disk 872: Colossal Adveture (First Adventure) Disk 873: Hotel Notell Disk 874: Ducksoup Disk 875: Sanity Clause Disk 886: Mold Disk 887: Magic Mansion Disk 888: Mop and Murder Disk 889: Library Disk 890: Spelunker's Tremendous Cave Adventure Disk 891: NMR2 + Pyramid Disk 893: Two Ways Disk 894: Spatent Obstruction + Murder at the Folkestone Inn Disk 895: Whatever We Decide to Call This Game (895) Disk 896: Weekend Survival Other Adventure Creators. Disk 400: TACL - interpreter plus four example advs. Disk 427: FRAC - autoboots, A600 compatible, verb/noun entry. Manual on disk. Disk 537: ABC - Adventure Bank Creator. Create Monkey Island type adventures! Requires AMOS. Disk 576: CAG - Create Adventure Games (A500/600+ only) - V1.2 AND V1.3 - Latest writing utility. Written with AMOS, seems to be very fully featured with excellent documentation. See also disk 950. Disk 754: TADS v2.0.16 - not completely bug free but at last it's here! Contains full docs. Disk 910: C.A.T. demo, adventure creator, text and graphics. A500+/600/1200. Full program but save disabled. Also contains the game Hazardous Holiday (see also Disk 826) Disk 950: CAG - Create Adventure Games v3.2, greatly improved from the versions on Disk 576. Also contains a special A1200 version. RPGs. Disk 377: Moria Disk 390: Survivor, needs 1 meg Disk 392: Hack! Improvement on ST version with rudimentary graphics. Disk 393: Return to Earth - strategy/trading game using Battlestar Galactica theme (find lost colony of Earth etc). Icon driven, new version with instructions in English. Disk 399: Legend of Lothian - single character RPG, Ultima style top down view. Works on A500+/600 but even better with Disk 510. Disk 567: Antep V1.0 + Larn v12.0B - Antep is similar to "Legend Of Lothian", ie a plan-view sort of thing. Graphics quite primitive, if colourful. Larn is hugely similar to "Moria" and "Hack". Disk 579: Dungeons of Avalon 1 - Perhaps the ultimate Disk E.O.T.B. clone. Excellent. (NOT A1200 regardless of mode or Relokick v1.4. See hints section of Issue 30 for info on save games/subsequent reloading) Disk 581: Dungeons of Avalon 2 - Follow-up to the above. Even better! (NOT A1200 regardless of mode or Relokick v1.4) Disk 583: Dragon Cave - DM-style graphics Disk 655: Dungeon of Nadroj (RPG) + Lore of Conquest (wargame) - Nadroj is yet another Hack/Larn/Moria style game, compiled with AC/Basic and in glorious lo-res. Disk 710: Black Dawn - SciFi Dungeon Master/Captive Clone (A1200 compatible) written with AMOS Disk 726: Assassins 141 - contains Black Dawn (see above) plus Reversii II and Gold Rusher (Boulder Dash clone with very small sprites. All A1200 compatible tho' Gold Rusher crashes when you quit. Disk 732: Mechfight - robot RPG like BattleTech. Loads in Workbench first. Disk 809: Black Dawn 2 + Killer Tomatoes and Video Poker - (Assassins 204) œ2.00 only Disk 830: Star Trek:The Next Generation (RPG/strategy) Disk 831: Knights (Hack-Moria RPG clone) + Mystery (text) + Eternal Rome (strategy) + Wizard Wars (hex-based strategy) Disk 832: Mount Doom (RPG) + Spacejest (text) Disk 903: Pits of Angband v2.7.4 (RPG, 2 disks, œ3.50) Disk 905: Gecko's Adventures 2 - Labyrinth II (text RPG), Treasure Island (text) and Totally Useless Game (multiple choice) Disk 959: Angst, RPG like Captive, originally full price, now shareware. Four disks, œ5.00 the set. Okay on A1200 Strategy/Sims/Wargames Disk 536: Iron Clads - needs 1 meg. Surface naval warfare from start of century to World War II, programmed in Hi-Soft Basic Disk 652: Act of War - Neat, graphical-strategy sci-fi game, written in AMOS. 3 seperate scenarios are included, all fully documented. Disk 655: Lore of Conquest (wargame) + Dungeon of Nadroj (RPG) - Conquest is a rather more interesting war game similar to RISK. It's for 2 players, very neat and grapical, and well documented. Disk 729: Star Trek - by Tobias Richter, point and click interface. Set course, send messages, beam items down etc. 2 disks, œ3.50. (A1200 compatible) Disk 728: Task Force - a simple war game like Laser Squad or Act of War (A1200 compatible) Disk 744: Solar Lords - good strategy game but needs two or more people to play properly. Disk 784: Colonial Conquest 2 (A1200 OK) Disk 785: Shepherd - needs 1 meg, looks like Powermonger. Appears very impressive for a shareware game. Also has good samples (A1200 OK) Disk 827: Conquest and Dominion + Starfleet plus Lord of Hosts, a chess clone Disk 828: Insider's Club (stockmarket sim) + Micromarket (ditto) + Outerim (strategy) Disk 829: Sealance (submarine sim) + Total War (strategy) Disk 830: Star Trek:The Next Generation (RPG/strategy) Disk 831: Eternal Rome (strategy) + Wizard Wars (hex-based strategy) + Knights (Hack-Moria RPG clone) + Mystery (text) Disk 989: Intergalactic Mercenaries - strategy/wargame like Rebelstar on the Spectrum 3D Construction Kit Games Disk 511: Mountain Adventure Disk 512: Atlantis Disk 513: Darkness Calls Disk 514: Planet of the Daleks Disk 515: Escape from the Planet of the Cardboard Monsters Disk 577: Wastelands + 3D demo game Disk 668: CAR + DIY + OXO Disk 833: Raise the Titanic Disk 834: Ghost Ship + New Stubb City + Operation Meteor Disk 897: Devil's Abode (requires AGA chipset) Disk 898: War of the Worlds Disk 899: Magical Maze Disk 900: Submarine Disk 901: Operation Thunderbolt demo Disk 902: The Probe Help Disks Disk 204: Amiga Solution Disk 1 - 60 16-bit adventure solutions Disk 205: Amiga Solution Disk 2 - More 16-bit adventure solutions 204-205 are auto-load and run. Type MOST to display required solution. Disk 206: Amiga Solution Disk 3 - 25 more 16-bit solutions Disk 207: Amiga Solution Disk 4 - 8-bit C64 sols Disk 208: Amiga Solution Disk 5 - more 8-bit sols 206-208 are CLI-accessed disks with files in ASCII format. Disk 209: WWF 'ACE' Amiga Help Disk - auto-load with musical soundtrack. Cheats for 100 games and over 30 solutions. Disk 210: WWF Amiga Help Disk 2 - more cheats, solutions and maps Disk 211: MWB Amiga Solution Disk - mostly Sierra, Lucasfilm and RPG Disk 270: Eye of the Beholder maps and playing guide *Disk 310: Captive help, maps and text files *Disk 425: Captive maps by reader Ivan Broad, produced using Mapper Disk 771: Frontier: Elite 1 Help disk - 2 save games and a doc telling you all you need to know! Disk 956: Eye of the Beholder 2 solution/maps by AS Rymer Disk 957: Dungeon Master solution/maps by AS Rymer John Barnsley's Game Help Disks. *Disk 59: Bard's Tale 1 Game Help Disk, maps and text John's 16-bit Adventure Help disks - all as text solutions. (Quickview program included as these are ST disks) *Disk 1: Disk 1 *Disk 2: Disk 2 *Disk 3: Disk 3 *Disk 29: Disk 4 *Disk 58: Disk 5 *Disk 125: Disk 6 *Disk 148: Disk 7 *Disk 186: Disk 8 *Disk 256: Disk 9 *Disk 313: Disk 10 *Disk 382: Disk 11 *Disk 505: Disk 12 *Disk 506: Disk 13 *Disk 507: Disk 14 John's Map Disks, all D/S with slideshow and printer option. *Disk 124: Larry 1,2 and 3 and Gold Rush *Disk 142: Indiana Jones, Police Quest 1, Space Quest III *Disk 143: Guild of Thieves, Pawn, Jinxter, Corruption *Disk 242: Leather Goddesses of Phobos, Wishbringer, Hollywood Hijinx, Deadline *Disk 243: King's Quest I, II, III, IV and Shadowgate *Disk 254: Silicon Dreams *Disk 255: Jewels of Darkness *Disk 276: Time and Magik Alex van Kaam's map disks with slideshow program. Run in low res. *Disk 61: Bloodwych maps *Disk 129: Bloodwych Data Disk maps *Disk 131: Xenomorph maps *Disk 362: Knightmare maps/solution Unclassifiable! *Disk 158: Mapper - a utility for drawing, saving and printing maps for RPGs and text games Disk 401: AmiGraph III - *** update *** RPG mapping utility running in HI-RES interlace mode plus 5 bonus graphics applications. Disk also contains the LHA 1.38 archiver. Slideshows. Disk 391: Red Planet - 5min slideshow of digitized probe shots and a bit of basic info. Selected utilities and other programs Disk 182: ST emulator for Amiga, contains several other useful utilities, A500 only. See also Disk 651. Disk 510: Relokick and ST Emulator - works on ALL Amigas!!! Includes an archive of an A1200-specific Relokick but there are some doubts whether it works. Terry is looking for another version. Disk 543: PC Task, PC emulator, requires DOS. Cutback version of shareware program so won't print out. Disk 584: T-Bench V0.2 - Latest version of this Workbench 2 replacement disk. Features an environment based around the DIRWORK directory utility and the EDWORD text-editor, with the ability to read and write to MSDOS disks. Many useful utilities interface with the system at the click of a mousebutton. A500+/600. Disk 624: Assassins 76 - GNU Chess, and two other programs Disk 651: Spectrum Emulator for ALL Amigas - The latest and best ever package of this type for the Amiga, featuring sound and performance-speeds based on your processor. Essential. Disk 709: Kastle Kumquat - top-down, puzzle-based arcade adventure, some joystick skills required but some neat puzzles included (A1200 compatible) Disk 727: Assassins Fix Disk - For the A1200 only. Included utility programs to solve some of the software incompatibility problems on the A1200; Kick Start 1.3, Fake Fast, Degrader, Kill AGA etc. Also includes a few commercial game fixer programs. Disk 753: Assassins Fix Disk 2 - Degrader disk with several utilities including some game fixes to make them compatible with the A1200 plus a handy program to stop the drives clicking when they are empty - A1200 ONLY! Disk 774: Spectrum AGA Emulator for A1200/A4000 only. Requires Workbench. Despite what it says on the doc file, it does not come with example Spectrum files. These have been removed due to potential copyright problems. Disk 783: Infocom Toolkit (run PC Infocoms on Amiga) + Zut Alors 2. Okay on A1200. Disk 786: Virus Checker for Amiga, v6.45 (Dec 94) (A1200 OK) Disk 808: Workbench 2 Emulator - œ1.00 only Disk 809: Assassins 204 - Killer Tomatoes, Video Poker + Black Dawn 2 - œ2.00 only Disk 827: Lord of Hosts (chess clone) plus Conquest and Dominion (strategy) + Starfleet (strategy) Disk 858: Amiga Utilities - Appisizer, Diskalu2, Fastview, Reorg 3.11 and Sysinfo. Reorg allows you to change a disk's format without changing its contents. Disk 877: A64 v3.01, an A1200 C64 emulator. Note this is the shareware, demo, version and only runs for 10 minutes. Disk 885: ZXAM v2.0, a 48K Spectrum. It requires a 68020+ processor. Disk 918: Chaos, a PD version of the Spectrum game plus Hexagons, a small puzzle game like Tetris. @~If you have any disks suitable for inclusion in the list, please @~contact me. Disks are exchanged on a one-for-one basis. @~All disks should be formatted using DOS\0 so that they will run @~on all Amigas. DOS\5 can be used for A1200-specific software. - o -