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Atomia Akorny

Author:Magnus Olsson
Genre:Fantasy>Cave crawl
Released:1984
Review:

This crown-quest was originally written for the Acorn Atom. The author's documentation describes it thusly:

If you're looking for a good game, this program is probably nothing for you. In fact, the game is almost ridiculously primitive, and the parser is so stupid and the messages so terse that some puzzles must be almost unsolvable without reading the source.
Seldom has an author's assessment of his own work been so accurate. The game is of some interest, however, for how it is implemented: Olsson wrote a small Atom emulator in C to run the original BASIC source code.

Rating: *

Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (30 Jun 2000)

Downloads:
atomia.zoo (30.66 KB)
MS-DOS executable, BASIC source code
atomia.sol (1.11 KB)
solution


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