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Desert Adventure

Sam Trenholme · 2007

Lost in a desert with four treasures to find. Written in a day, in the format Scott Adams invented in 1978.

Play

SAVE creates a named Lampward checkpoint on this device. Nothing is saved automatically.

  • Z-code
  • Cave crawl
  • Parser
  • About 30 minutes
  • 23 KB

About

Desert Adventure is small on purpose. Sam Trenholme wrote it in twenty-four hours in 2007, in Scott Adams' TRS-80 adventure format — the compact system built for machines with sixteen kilobytes of memory — and aimed to fit the whole game in under twelve.

It is the first original adventure written for that format in over twenty years, and it is here as much for that as for the game: a working demonstration of how much world fits in almost no space.

Tags

  • Classic
  • Short
  • Treasure hunt

History

This chronology includes the world around Desert Adventure: background that may predate the game, its creation and publication, and later editions, research, and preservation. An early date is historical context, not necessarily a game release.

  1. Publication

    Desert Adventure published — by Sam Trenholme

    The publication year for the work itself. Earlier entries are historical background, not earlier releases of the game.

  2. Lampward

    Playable release — Release 1

    The exact release Lampward currently serves. It may be a later edition or port of an older work.

Documents & sources

  • reference · Reference

    Scott Adams' adventure format

    The system this game is written for, designed in 1978 to fit adventures into machines with almost no memory.

    IF Archive

  • source archive · External archive

    The desert-scott package

    The original distribution, including the Scott Adams data file, its source, the ScottFree interpreter and the COPYING notice Lampward's rights record rests on.

    IF Archive · BSD 2-Clause License

Rights to these documents are separate from rights to the game. Lampward links to archives it may not mirror, and says so rather than implying it holds a copy.

Credits & License

Credits
Sam Trenholme. Written in Scott Adams' TRS-80 adventure format.
Playing
Desert Adventure — Release 1, Z-code 5, serial 070909
IFID ZCODE-1-070909-5103
License
BSD 2-Clause License
Use
BSD licensed: redistribution is permitted, including commercially, as long as the copyright notice and conditions travel with it.
Source
Notices

Copyright (c) 2007 Sam Trenholme.

Copyright (c) 2007 Sam Trenholme Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. This software is provided 'as is' with no guarantees of correctness or fitness for purpose.

Artwork
No cover art is used; the title card is generated by Lampward.

Rights to the game binary, to cover art, and to any documentary material on this page are separate. A permission covering one does not cover the others.