http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=23902&d=36
Here is the link to the original C16 Release
Written in BASIC, it's a simple text adventure converted from the Commodore 16 of a 1985 release from Microdeal.
It was the first adventure I really played (and beat). It isn't large and it isn't really that difficult, it's basically a simple two word command adventure. The story (what there is of it) is totally crazy and is quite humourously macabre in parts. Basically you have to find a golden horseshoe (the story doesn't explain why), well that is basically the whole synopsis of it
Converting a simple text adventure to the C64 wasn't that straight forward as I thought it might be. As well as simply replacing the COLOR commands with the relevant pokes. It was littered with the ELSE command which is kinda loosely similar to OR that it carries out another set of instructions if it couldn't carry out the previous.
i.e:
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1 L=0
2 L=L+1
3 IF L=42 THEN PRINT "GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD!":END:ELSE PRINT "LIFE IS PRETTY GOOD!"
4 GOTO 2
Well it's hardly in the realms of what you guys are capable of, and to make this thread and game appear more interesting than it actually is, I try to make myself sound a little more clever than I actually am, but for a near programming novice like myself it isn't bad stuff (it works). I might think about doing the rest of the series of these adventures one day