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From: ojwb1@cl.cam.ac.uk (O.J.W. Betts)
Subject: Re: This Is The Jewels of Darkekness
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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1993 11:32:11 GMT
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In article <C5yvuJ.5B8@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>, cctr120@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz (Brendon Wyber) writes:
|> 
|> The Jewels of Darkness was a repackaging of the Level 9 computer games
|> (originally known as the Middle Earth trilogy).
|> 
|> Level 9 was the british equivalent of Infocom. They produced several games
|> for early british Home Computers (BBC, ZX Spectrum). They were technically
|> powerful being able to compress VERY large adventures (each one had over 200
|> locations) into a 32K virtual machine that they had developed. (The parser
|> was the VERB NOUN type but was a lot better that the SCOTT ADAMS games brought
|> out in the same period).
|> 
|> Level 9 Games Included...
|>       Middle Earth Trilogy (Jewels of Darkness)
|>            Colossal Adventure (Remake of origin Crowther and Woods)
|>            Adventure Quest
|>            Dungeon Adventure
|>       Silicon Dreams Trilogy
|>            Snowball
|>            Return To Eden
|>            The Worm in Paradise

These three:
|>       Lords of Time
|>       The Price of Magik
|>       Red Moon
were released as Time & Magic (Magik?) Trilogy.

|>       Gnome Ranger
|>       Gnome Ranger II- Ingrid's Back
|>       Lancelot
|>       Scrape Ghost
|>       Emerald Isle
I never managed to finish Emerald Isle. I'm almost there, but I haven't used
the armband or done anything useful with the big statue. Any clues?

|> 
|> Many of there games are available for MS-DOS and the Amiga (Published by
|> Rainbird or Manderin). They they would not be produced any more. (I use a
|> spectrum emulator).
|> 
|> These game's verb-noun interfaces probably limit their appeal to most
|> Infocom/TADS junkies nowadays BUT they introduced me to the World of
|> Adventures and I still get misty-eyed when I think about then.
|> 
|> Be seeing you,
|> 
|> Brendon Wyber                     Computer Services Centre,
|> b.wyber@csc.canterbury.ac.nz      University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
|> 
|> "Ph-nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."
