AdventureWriter games for Atari 8-bit computers

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Following on from this thread, here’s a list of the text adventures that were written using AdventureWriter and reported to exist for the Atari 400/800/XL/XE line of computers. Some are missing in action. Some have been reported, but there is no evidence that they actually exist. This list does not include the hacky ports of ZX Spectrum games done by webdevcl.

For those that don’t know, AdventureWriter is the version of The Quill that was published by Codewriter in the USA for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit, C64 and IBM PC.

  • Atari Adventure (Mark Butler)
  • The Atlantis Adventure (Alias Maximus), published in The Grim Reaper
  • The Bow of Beura (Alias Maximus, John E), published in The Grim Reaper
  • The Breath of Life (John E), published in The Grim Reaper
  • California Gold (Charles Evans)
  • The Casebook of Hemlock Soames #1: Murder at Mathison Manor (Frank S Eva), published by CodeWriter
  • The Casebook of Hemlock Soames #2: Pursuit of Dr. Mortenson (Frank S Eva), published by CodeWriter
  • The Casebook of Hemlock Soames #3: The Case of the Elusive Motive, Part 1 (Frank S Eva), published by CodeWriter
  • The Casebook of Hemlock Soames #3: The Case of the Elusive Motive, Part 2 (Frank S Eva), published by CodeWriter
  • The Caves of Madness (Mike Howard), published by Mayberry Madness Enterprises
  • Cobb’s Adventure (author unknown)
  • Computer Adventure (author unknown)
  • The Computer Solution (Mike Howard), published by Mayberry Madness Enterprises
  • Corsair! (Alias Maximus), published in The Grim Reaper
  • Diamond Trail (Tim Gilbert), published by Gilsoft International
  • Dr D Adventure (author unknown)
  • L’ Enigme du Triangle (Jean-Luc Delmon, Denis Friedman), published by Atari (France)
  • Hemlock Soames Strikes Again (Frank S Eva), published by Micro-Novels
  • The Hyams Adventure (author unknown)
  • The Island (John E), published in The Grim Reaper
  • The KGB Kill (Braniac-5)
  • Magic (author unknown), published by Sofitec
  • Magic Castle (Graeme Yeandle), published by Gilsoft International
  • The Mansbie Quest (Mike Howard), published by Mayberry Madness Enterprises
  • Moonstone (Tony Longworth), published by Page 6
  • Odieus’ Quest for the Magic Flingshot (John E), published in The Grim Reaper
  • Paradox (Jon A Slack), published by Runesoft
  • Podraz III (author unknown), published by Sitsoft
  • Rescue Adventure, published by CodeWriter
  • Saucer Adventure (Jay Pierstorff), published by Page 6 public domain library
  • Star Voyage 1 (Frank S Eva), published by CodeWriter
  • Star Voyage 2 (Frank S Eva), published by CodeWriter
  • Star Voyage 3 (Frank S Eva), published by CodeWriter
  • Star Voyage 4 (Frank S Eva), published by CodeWriter
  • The Tomb of Death (Flintstone), published in The Grim Reaper
  • The Tomb of Horrors v2.30 (Charles Jacks)
  • World of Pleasure (author unknown)

If you know of others, please let us know. Also, if you know of downloads of the games that are missing in action, please let us know

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There are some AdventureWriter games not on this list, but they were for the C64.

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That’s correct. There were a lot more C64 games than Atari games, but this is just to list the Atari games, as they aren’t as well known and the thread I linked to above was talking about reverse engineering the Atari games. UnQuill doesn’t work on the Atari games, but it does work on the C64 games.

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