Standard fantasy scenario: fetch artifacts to lift curse on kingdom. Tolerable prose, good sense of expanse. Unplayably buggy under both DOS and Linux: save/restore doesn't work under Windows, and in both versions some crucial items and characters, including the historian who's supposed to tell you about your quest at the beginning, are unmentioned in the room descriptions and undetectable without consulting the walkthrough. This is probably a bug in the JACL interpreter rather than the game scripts, but the game scripts are not compatible with more recent versions of JACL.

Rating: *

Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (21 Dec 2001)

1996-10-18 1req.txt (498 bytes)

Readme

1996-10-18 eldor.jac (164.18 KB)

JACL source code

1979-12-30 eldor.ps (18.69 KB)

JACL source code

1996-08-20 jacl.con (28 bytes)

JACL source code (configuration file)

1979-12-30 jacl.elf (58.37 KB)

Linux executable (version: 1996 competition release, requires libc5)

1996-10-18 jacl.exe (102.11 KB)

MS-DOS executable (version: 1996 competition release)

1996-08-20 jacl.pif (545 bytes)

Windows shortcut file

1996-10-18 walkthru (1.98 KB)

Walkthrough