Tag: eamon
Huw Williams has once again been at the computer and created a masterpiece map for an Eamon adventure. This week’s target is EAMON Adventure number 206, Curse of Hellsblade. Curse of Hellsblade is an adventure which was originally created for the Knight Quest system , a highly advanced version of EAMON style text adventure system, by the author John Nelson. John Nelson was the founder of the National EAMON Users Club, which produced a newsletter for several years. The newsletters…
Huw Williams of the EAMON Wiki website has released a new re-done map for the 93 adventure in the EAMON series, Flying Circus. With interest in the EAMON series once again rising in the retro computing world, Huw has been busily re-imagining many of the the maps for EAMON Adventures. For more of his wonderful mastery, check out the EAMON Wiki website at:https://eamon.wiki/ To read about the EAMON Adventure Flying Circus, check out the Wiki page at:https://eamon.wiki/Flying_Circus If you are…
Earlier this month, Matthew Clark posted a long held mystery of Eamon #80 – Search For The Key by Eamon’s creator, Donald Brown. Apparently, Dr. William Trent had a unique way of winning the game, however, he never disclosed the secret. In follow up emails with Dr. Trent, he no longer seems to remember what that solution was and thus Matthew Clark has put our a call to the entire Eamon community looking for those who might have a clue…
For those of use who used Apple computers in the early 1980’s, there have been two constants in the gaming world. The first was Oregon Trail which every school age child of that generation still recognizes today. The other, while not as recognizable, was just as influential in the Text Based Interactive Fiction realm. That would be Eamon, the adventure system created in 1980 by Donald Brown. Over the years since his initial version of the Beginners Cave appeared in…
During the past week, I have been re-visiting a number of the original Apple II archives which we produced here at A.P.P.L.E. during my testing with John Morris’ Applesauce. In the bunches of floppies, I found one disk labeled mysteriously “March Special E-Base Program“. Initially, I thought it might be an old database program that never came to light, however, to my surprise, it was the original Eamon version 2.1 Base Program which was modified by John Nelson and Robert…
The Eamon Deluxe Newsletter for March 2013 has been posted on the Eamon Adventurers Guild Online website at www.eamonag.org. Eamon Deluxe is the creation of master Eamon adventure writer Frank Black. He recently released Eamon Deluxe 5.0 for multiple platforms and this month talks about the possibility that Don Brown and Jon Walker could be one and the same person. For more, check out the newsletter at: http://eamonag.org/newsletters/acrobat/Eamon_DeluXe_NewsletterV3n01_03-2013.pdf
The Eamon Adventures have long been one of the favorite adventure systems available for the Apple ][. With over 255 adventures written for Eamon, it is also likely the most prolific adventuring system as well. Eamon was designed in 1980 by Donald Brown and released in Recreational Computing Magazine as a public domain system. While the first dozen or so adventures were written by Donald Brown himself, most of the following 200 plus adventures have been written by over 50…
Two new Eamon reviews from Thomas Ferguson are now available on the Eamon Adventurers Guild website. The Reviews of Adventure # 253, The Prisim of Shadows and # 254, Dawn of the Warlock, both of which were written by Wade Clarke and James Anderson give the new offerings high praise and marks. Eamon is an Adventure design system developed by Don Brown in 1979 and has over 255 adventures currently written for the system. Recently, the system has made its…
Frank Black has released his latest rendition of Eamon Deluxe interactive fiction system. Version 5.0 which runs on all flavors of Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, allows the users to experience the joys of playing the original Eamon adventures all in one place. While the Eamon adventures were primarily developed for the Apple II series computers, this marks the first time that the system is available on all of the major current platforms. You can download the Eamon Deluxe…
New screen shots of the impending Macintosh version of Eamon Deluxe version 5.0 have been posted on the Eamon Adventurers Guild Online Blog. The screen shots show that the new software is nearly complete and seems to be operating nominally. Although the site does not discuss any time frame for the actual release, the screen shots do make it appear that the release date will be very soon. You can check out the new screen shots at the Eamon Adventurers…
The original Eamon Beginners Cave has been updated to display the users stats on the page at all times. The original modification was implemented in 1985 and never released. So I went back this week and fixed the mod and am now releasing the New Beginners Cave for public beta. While the program is nearly 100% ready to go, there may still a few glitches along the way. If you find any issues with the program let me know. You…
Frank Kunze has announce that he will be sending out the 3rd beta of the Eamon Deluxe 5.0 program. He is attempting to re-work all of the original Eamon to accompany the Eamon Deluxe 5.0 system, fixing directional issues as well as eliminating unneeded items from the programs in order to make them flow better. He has recently re-formatted the SoftDisk Eamon #156, THE CURSE OF TALON by Sam Ruby. A short writeup about that re-formatting is available on the…
The latest incarnation of the Eamon Adventurers franchise, Eamon Deluxe 5.0 has been shipped to beta testers. Thus far, the program is only available in Win32 format, however, other formats including Mac OS X versions will be released in the coming days. Thus far, there are 20 beta testers with room for 10 more on the team. Frank Kunze, author of Eamon Deluxe has been continuing work on the system and also on the conversion of the older Eamon adventures. …
According to a post on the Eamon Adventurers Guild Online blog, the beta version of Eamon Deluxe 5.0 may go out to beta testers as early as today. Frank Kunze is in the final stages of squashing bugs with the new version and expects that the beta will be in testers hands at end of day.
Frank Kunze has posted about a dozen new screen shots on the Eamon Adventurers Guild Online blog. The screenshots show a great deal of progress on the latest rendition of the Eamon franchise and gives both beta testers and users an idea of what to expect of the new version. Eamon Deluxe 5.0 will be the first truly cross platform version of the interactive fiction system. This has heightened users anticipation of the product along with the occasional shots of…
Frank Kunze has put out a call for beta testers of his latest version of Eamon Deluxe. Eamon is an adventure system originally created by Donald Brown in 1979. The system has gone through several renditions and currently has over 255 adventures created by various authors globally. The Eamon Deluxe system was created by Frank Kunze to enhance the capabilities of the Eamon Adventure system and is now available for users of Windows Vista, Windows 7 in 32 Bit mode,…
The Eamon Adventurers Guild Online, curated by Matthew Clark, is looking for writers who have a penchant for writing. Eamon has long been the standard for Apple ][ interactive fiction ever since Donald Brown created it in 1979. Published in 1980 in a number of magazines, complete with Software Developers Kit and a number of adventures, the system soon became very popular among Interactive Fiction writers of the 1980’s. Currently, the Eamon Adventures Guild Online library contains over 255 adventures,…
Wade Clarke has released an update for his Leadlight Adventure. The game itself is quite the adventure. Your are playing a girl Belinda who’s world is slowly falling apart. According to the Leadlight website, “15-year-old Belinda Nettle is studying at Linville Girls High School in Australia’s Blue Mountains. After falling asleep in the library one afternoon, she wakes from her mundane existence into a nightmare. Her classmates are transformed, nameless terrors seek her out across the schoolgrounds, and traps and…
Robert Plamondon How the EAMON Adventure System Works. COMPUTERIZED adventure games have been surrounded by an aura of mystery that has nothing to do with their story lines. Simply stated, the mystery is this: no one knows how they work. Like most mysteries, adventure programs are pretty straightforward once the hidden parts are revealed. To bring these secrets to light, let’s look at the EAMON adventure system by Donald Brown, which is a set of BASIC programs for the APPLE…
