STAC Adventure Player

STAC is a program for creating text adventures with graphics. It was developed by Sean Elis and is a further development of GAC (Graphic Adventure Creator). Unlike many other adventure engines, however, there were no alternative programs for playing the adventures—until now.

The STAC Adventure Player is based on reverse engineering of the original player. Unlike the original, the Adventure Player runs smoothly under GEM and not just in the three ST resolutions. The program incorporates key elements of the Level 9 Interpreter’s user interface and supports a game’s custom font (which can be disabled).

Level 9 Interpreter

During the 1980s a small British company called Level 9, run by two brothers (Mike and Pete Austin), produced a series of text adventure games for a variety of computers. These games received considerable critical acclaim and are probably the best text adventures written for the small cassette based 8 bit computers common in Britain in the 80s.

Level 9 wrote their games using a custom designed system known as "A-Code", which evolved from games on the 8 bit computers such as the Acorn BBC Model B, the Sinclair Spectrum and the Commodore 64 to the (then new) 16 bit machines such as the Amiga and the Atari ST.

This is the ST port of the highly portable Level 9 Interpreter, now up-to-date with the latest release and with a proper GEM interface. Play with or without graphics, in a GEM window or fullscreen.

Daleks GEM

A GEM version of the classic strategy game “Daleks,” based on the Macintosh game by Johan Strandberg (1984). Brian McClendon had already ported the game to the Atari in the ’80s, but that version does not run in a window and does not run on the FireBee.

This new version is a GEM game and runs in all resolutions—with scrolling if necessary. Optionally, a grid can be displayed. The rules remain unchanged: The player can move in eight directions; the enemy Daleks then always move directly toward the player. There are only three ways to destroy enemies: The Sonic Screwdriver (once per level) destroys all enemies within range, a collision between at least two enemies, or when a Dalek drives into a pile of scrap.

FrobTADS

This is a port of FrobTADS (Nikos Chantziaras) to the Atari ST and compatible systems. FrobTADS is a text-only implementation of TADS, the Text Adventure Development System. The program plays both TADS 2 and 3 games and is more up-to-date than the old TADS 2 interpreter for the ST.

You will find a console application and a GEM version of the full interpreter.

ScottFree

Scott Free reads and executes TRS80 format Scott Adams datafiles. Scott Adams wrote a couple of adventures in the 70's and early 80's. These adventures are freely available on the net but they aren't freeware - if you download one of them remember that you'll have to pay a shareware fee to Scott.

This new release uses the same UI framework as my Level 9 Interpreter. While a TTP version is still supplied, you can also use the GEM version which has additional display option and supports the Color and Font protocol.

Milanopoly

A loose, very milan inspired version of a classic board game. Created for a game contest, never had time to add a computer opponent.