Home Computing Weekly


Pettigrew's Diary
By Shards
BBC Model B

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #59

This adventure comprises three programs, each under its own chapter heading, and each just as difficult as the last.

In the first, The Burning Farmhouse, you have to venture inside to retrieve as many objects as you can, avoiding the swirling flames. Once you have completed any stage you are given a codeword, and from then on that stage can be missed out if wished.

In London Frolics, the next chapter, you have to earn enough to buy a ticket to Paris. You communicate with the computer in two-word phrases.

In Chapter 3, European Trek, you have to complete eight tasks. If you succeed, you will have solved the mystery of Pettigrew's Diary. Graphics are included in Chapters 1 and 3. Each is referred to separately in the instructions, which tell you as much as they can without giving too many clues away.

After a while the music in Chapter 1 began to aggravate me a little but now I have most of the codes I don't have to listen. I haven't got long to go now, I'll complete the adventure soon.

M.B.

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