| Genre: | Unknown Genre Type |
| Publisher: | Heyley |
| Machine Compatibility: | Acorn Electron |
| Release: | Professionally released on 3.5" Disc |
| Available For: | Acorn Electron & BBC B/B+/Master 128 |
| Compatible Emulators: | Elkulator 1.0 (PC (Windows)) |
| Original Release Date: | 1st April 1988 |
| Features: | Speed Boost when combined with the Turbo Driver |
| Original Release Price: | £7.95 |
| Market Valuation: | £41.67 (How Is This Calculated?) |
| Item Weight: | 64g |
| Box Type: | Supplied Unboxed |
| Author(s): | Tony Heap |
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3.5" Disc
Dreamtime
Electron User
1st April 1988
Should keep your disc drive whirring for many hours and give you a few sleepless nights to boot. Read Review
Full Instructions
Introduction
Dreamtime has 200+ locations, 100 objects and 200+ messages. In total, the squashed data files comprise over 75K.
Instructions
The game understands one or two word commands, e.g. CLIMB TREE or JUMP. If it doesn't understand, try a different work, for example, if you type: PUSH BUTTON and it responds: 'I don't know how to PUSH' you could then try: PRESS BUTTON.
The second word in your command, the object, may also produce an error. Maybe you have typed GET MATTRESS and it responds: 'I can't see a matador with a green cape'.
This is because there is a matador with a green cape. This is because there is a matador somewhere else in the game and the computer does not recognise the word MATTRESS.
You can only manipulate those objects that are prefixed with 'You can see'; you cannot manipulate objects mentioned in the room description.
The program distinguishes between objects whose status has changed. For example, it says 'You see an empty bottle'. To get it, type: GET EMPTY BOTTLE, because later you might be able to fill it and the message would be 'You see a full bottle', and to get it you say: GET FULL BOTTLE.
This would also apply to objects like ropes (tied or untied) and keys (various types; skeleton, brass, etc.). When checking your response, the computer refers only to the first few letters in each word; four letters for the first word and three letters for the second word, so the words: CLIMB THE TREE could be written as: CLIM TRE to save time.
Commands
Dreamtime recognises a wide range of words. Some you will have to discover for yourself, others are standard, for example:
| Command | Meaning |
| GO NORTH or N | Move northwards |
| GET KNIFE | Take the knife |
| WEAR COAT | Put the coat on |
| DROP ROPE | Put the rope down |
| EXAMINE NOTE | Look at the note more closely |
| GET ALL | Pick up everything from the floor. |
| LOOK or L | What does the room look like? |
| SCORE | How am I doing and for how long have I been playing? |
| INVENTORY or I | What am I carrying and wearing? |
There are some commands which have little to do with playing the game but are commands to the program.
| Command | Meaning |
| QUIT | Abandon the game. |
| SAVE | Save the current state of play to disc. |
| RESTORE | Load a previously saved position. |
| *CAT, *. or CAT | Catalogue the disc. (Directory paths can be given) |
Saving and Loading Game Positions
When using SAVE and RESTORE, note the following:
| 1. | Do not attempt to save a position on the adventure disc itself. You can't. |
| 2. | Trying to SAVE on a disc which is full or whose catalogue is full will result in a 'Disc full' or 'Cat full' error message. |
| 3. | The 'Channel' error appears if you attempt to RESTORE a non-existent file. |
| 4. | You will be prompted for a filename and drive number. |
Do not save a game on anything other than a disc of the same track size, or you will have to start again. Remember to put the adventure disc back in drive 0 after saving or restoring a position.
Scoring
You score for getting on in the game, for holding or wearing certain objects and, of course, for winning.
Hints
Almost everything in Dreamtime has a purpose. EXAMine every object you come across. Messages can often give you some help. If you try to get an object and the reply is 'You can't' then it means that the object is too heavy,e.g. you have tried to get a spaceship, or that you have to do something to the object first, e.g. you have tried to get a robot; maybe you have to unplug it first. Read the description of locations; they often contain clues, e.g. if a room is floored with soft earth then maybe you should try digging. Use SAVE and RESTORE regularly. Since the journey through the game is very long and extremely difficult, it is inevitable that at some time you will be killed.
You don't want to have to start from the beginning all over again just because you hadn't saved a position. Use SAVE whenever you think you may be going into danger. It might also be a good idea to SAVE your positions under numbered files, e.g. GAME1, GAME2, GAME3, etc. just in case you find that you have lost an object that you need later on in the game. Finally, make a map as you go along, summarising each location and showing its exits. Dreamtime is fairly easy to map pictorially and a map will help you to find your way around the game.
Background
It's Thursday evening and you've just finished watching Top of the Pops (or Emmerdale Farm, depending on your taste). Your mother folds up her Sun 'news'paper and places it on her lap. She says that it's time that you were going to bed. You protest strongly, but a stern word from your father tells you that if you don't get up those stairs pretty sharpish, you won't be going to see Rocky XXIV at the cinema tomorrow night.
You gloomily plod upstairs, mourning at having to miss EastEnders and shoving your hands in your pockets sulkily. Bedtimes are so boring. If going to bed was interesting or exciting, little kiddies' parents wouldn't get so much hassle.
You just lie there, trying to get to sleep, but failing miserably. You come across something squidgy in your pocket which, on closer examination, turns out to be a piece of cheese. How on earth had that got there?
At the time, you were completely oblivious to the fact that the Messiahs of Dreamtime had placed it there, and had also given you a strong impulse to eat it, although it smells distinctly like a farmer's sock. Yeuch! Horrible!
You spit it out on the floor. But it's too late. Although you don't know it, the special powers of the cheese will take effect.
You wash out your mouth and slip beneath your comfortable bed covers. Unusually, you feel extremely sleepy. Consciousness slowly drifts away from you as you embark on the long journey into the Land of Nod, more commonly known as "Dreamtime". The Messiahs are sending you to a dimension which promises adventure and excitement, intrigue and fascination. It also promises to have a complete lack of magical wizards, fire-breathing dragons and underground caverns. So, without further ago, I welcome you to Dreamtime...
Dreamtime was written and conceived by Tony Heap using a highly modified version of Jonathan Evans' Adventurescape program, and a clapped out Issue 3 Beeb. The game took a very, very long time to program, mainly due to the loss of all the puzzle data at least three times, and also partly due to Howard's rather neat wiping of the only master copy in existence. The original scripts and maps are available for the small sum of £2,000 per sheet.
Thanks to Howard, Gaz, Hugh, Fatty and Cath for testing and criticising the game (in other words, finding loads of bugs in it) and to Alan Heap and Ken Roberts for proof-reading the adventure text.
Hintsheet
This cluesheet has been compiled to give you hints in the game without spoiling your enjoyment. Look up the object or location you wish to find or know more about. The numbers in brackets after each one are of the form (location, details). Have fun!
Objects
39)
coin (silver) (403)?149)
young girl (262, 357)
Locations
?253)
record shop (347)254)
restaurant (hotel) (347)255)
restaurant (pasta) (347)278)
small room (347)279)
snooker room (347)?303)
yard (back) (208, 490)
?Miscellaneous
?310)
The object of the game (520)311)
Layout (518)313)
Winning (522)314)
Being extremely cool (333)315)
Scoring (538)316)
Starting off (477)317)
The competition (514)318)
Order of the sub-dreams (425)
Answers
?330)
You have to charm it out of its home. See (485).331)
Makes a loud bang if you shake it, but you can only do it once. See (487) for where someone might be disturbed by it.332)
Down at your local supermarket for only 39p.333)
Call yourself 'Tony' and write an adventure as good as Dreamtime.334)
You have to buy it from a machine. See (507).335)
Useful for finding your way if you're lost and totally disorientated. Try reading it and see (489) for details.336)
You are given it by a dead good friend and a music lover when you've set his bones at rest. See (491).337)
Just a guide about how to build your rubber item, and in which order to put in the rubber items. See (535) for a comprehensive list.343)
Water comes out of the tap. See (499) for what to put the water in.347)
Just scenery; there's nothing you can do here.348)
Belongs to someone very rich, the kind of person who would wear a leather jacket or a fur coat. See (505) to find it.349)
Put some money in it to get some goods out. See (507).350)
At Howard's house (grr).351)
The professor is waiting for the postman to bring him a letter. See (511).352)
Wear the rubber glove and pull the plug out of its socket. The band will 'do a runner', leaving a rope for you to climb down by the stairway and the front door unlocked, although you still have to open it.354)
You are given it. Not by a human, but by a well-fed bird. See (513).355)
A red herring. A complete waste of time and space.356)
In the local health food shop, I've no doubt, along with the lentil soup and free range bees' honey.357)
She needs company so try talking to her. See (515).358)
Sitting in front of InterWord doing another bloody cluesheet.362)
You have to build it yourself from old bits of other guns which have probably gone out of fashion or something, but you need a tool and the knowledge of molecular electronics to do it. See (497).363)
The fire burns below the chimney, so if you like pretending to be Father Christmas then it might be a good idea to put it out first. See (526).364)
You are given it by a man who is likely to know a lot about electronics and explosives, but you need the order slip first. See (511).365)
The coats contain some money. The examine message gives a pretty heavy hint. See (505) for full details.366)
You are given it when you book your room in the hotel. See (501).369)
The plug is the band's power point. Pull it out. See (352) if you get electrocuted.370)
Shoot the police with the photon ram before they can shoot you.371)
A very fast, very powerful, very expensive and very in-demand computer. Pity I got one before you isn't it?373)
Good for drilling hard metal, especially if you have sinking ships in mind. See (528).375)
Found at the very beginning of the game and used at the very end. See (549).376)
You have to get someone to make it for you out of some old iron. See (521).378)
An after product of (71), when you try to climb or go down them.379)
Be nasty and steal the beggar's mug. He might need killing (OK, so it's violent, just get on with the game). See (527) for how.380)
A friendly young lass will give it to you if you tell her a sob story. See (515).381)
A cracker in disguise and you know who wants a cracker. See (513)383)
Helps to link the important bits of the game together.384)
Down the spout ever since Jools Holland left.385)
Of the strikable kind, not the sport kind. It only stays lit for one move so be careful when and where you use it. See (544).386)
Wear the climbing suckers to climb up the slippery plastic pipe.387)
A good pyramid wall smasher, but it only works on weakened walls. See (551).391)
Doesn't actually contain salt but a drug which will cure someone's problems (for a while at least). See (529).395)
It contains just enough dosh to get yourself a room for the night. See (530).396)
The only way in is from (230).397)
The grand stairway can be used once only to climb ~DOWN/~. Only use it to go down and only when you are sure it is the right time to use it. There are few other ways down.398)
Directly to the south of (189).399)
The key for your hotel door. It is also the item used to put in one of (79).401)
Hungry as a very hungry thing. Feed it. See (513) for what to give it.402)
Having a drink with the Pet Shop Boys. 'What have I done to deserve this?' she must be saying.403)
The type taken by various vending machinery. See (507).404)
West of the reception area. You have to book a room before you can go in. See (501) to do this.407)
Used for syphoning an imflammable liquid. See (531).408)
You start on it, dum-dum.409)
Use the machine to make one big rubber item out of six Small rubber items. See (535) for how.410)
Use the elevator to access the five floors of the hotel. The porter operates it if you tell him which floor you want (just type the number in). See (532) if he's in a bad mood.411)
Untie the rope from the anchor, which will fall into the Sea.412)
The stairway is useless for climbing. You have to go up to the first floor in the elevator. See (475).413)
He won't let you downstairs, but is amenable to negotiation of the financial kind. See (503) to get rid of him.415)
This is one of the objects that has to be put into one of (79).416)
In a hospital for the terminally insane so that he can be cured of his terminal laughter problem.417)
They are locked, and there is no key available. You have to blow them up. See (547) for how and for what to use.418)
Go ~IN/~ when you're standing by it.419)
Actually a strong weed killer. See (545) for where to pour it.421)
Used in the process of rubber moulding. See (535) for how to use it.424)
I don't know and I passed 'O' level geography.425)
The holes in the walls in your hotel suite provide a way of linking the four sub-adventures into one, and making only one possible order of completing the game. See (342) for the list of what goes into and comes out of what.427)
Hmm, looks like there are just about enough bits of electronics in the shop to build a gun. See (497) for how to do it.429)
The home of a slippery friend. See (485) to charm it out.431)
Can you tell the difference between Anchor and real butter?432)
Go down the toilet pipe (yes, honestly), but you'll have to lose a lot of weight first. See (553).435)
One of the major areas in the game.436)
Swim across the river, but only after you have removed the teeth (The ones attached to the crocodiles' mouths). See (525).437)
The skeleton is a lover of music, with ribs resembling a xylophone. Play him something. See (491).439)
If you're having problems picking it up, see (540).441)
It's yours and there is something inside it. If you're very thick, see (537).443)
A good electronic screwdriver, especially if you've got some electronics nearby. See (497).444)
The tomb is in a fourth dimension somewhere, but the entrance is inside the pyramid. You can only get to it by çoing in the right direction from the right place. See (558).445)
What's inside the sarcophagus? Why don't you take a close look? Why don't you see (559)?447)
The crew are bored beyond belief. Maybe they want a game of cards. See (493).448)
The blacksmith wants to make you something from iron, so give him an iron object. See (521).449)
Useful for climbing slippery surfaces, especially ones found in vertical pipes. See (386).450)
The helicopter is your means of escape from Don Quis City and the dream. Go ~IN/~ to it. When inside, you have to ~FLY/~ it. See (543) if you can't fly. When you have flown it, go ~OUT/~ again.451)
A charming instrument. Play it. See (485).453)
You can't move them, but there's a trapdoor underneath them. You have to poison them away. See (545).454)
A useful weapon, especially against any upholders of the law you might meet who would otherwise shoot you a lot. See (370).457)
Eat meat! Flowers have feelings too.458)
A good weapon that doesn't like charity. See (527).459)
The drunk puzzle is a misleading one, and in very bad taste. The drunk isn't thirsty, he wants some pain relief from a drug. You can help him. See (529).460)
Don't bother opening it, just give it to its rightful owner. It actually contains a order slip for a useful item. See (511).461)
Rubber is a good insulator of electricity. The results when not wearing the glove can be shocking. See (352).462)
Hangs over the edge of the ship and is good for tying ropes to, especially if you're having trouble getting äown to a lifeboat in the sea below. See (540).463)
If your foot is stuck, you should see a shrink, or preferably become one. See (553).465)
Don't go down here without putting (58) out unless you like roast bum.467)
Floor 1 is a sci-fi dream, set in Don Quis City, a name we made up the other day to avoid cluesheet confusion. the city is in the middle of the unfashionable end of the ×estern Spiral Arm of the galaxy, by the way.468)
The hand won't let you go until you've given something of worth to the barman. Try looking in the satchel, but don't choose the wrong object. See (562).469)
Don't go in here; it's a maze with a difficult solution and nothing interesting, in fact, nothing at all on the far side of it.471)
We don't actually know much about her except that she starred in the Shake'n'vac advert.473)
The floor 2 dream is set in Egypt. To escape from it, do a lot of clever things and eventually make your way across the river and into the pyramid.474)
He will continue to follow you around until you take him upstairs. He knows how to fix the lift, if you've managed to get in it yet. See (563).477)
Get the salt pot and the glass, pour the salt by the trunk, get his wallet, open it, pull the lever to fill the glass, book a room with the money, go into the elevator and give the glass to the porter. OK?478)
A very valuable piece of equipment (refer to a book by Douglas Adams for details). Anyone would be pleased to receive one as a gift. See (562).479)
I bet you're lost here. A true seaman would keep his bearings. See (489) for the logical solution.480)
A shrinking potion, very handy if you get stuck at all. See (553) for where to use it.481)
A recent report shows that he spends 20% of his time preparing for and presenting 'Northwest Tonight', and the remaining 80% laughing at his own wig.482)
You don't like cards yourself, but a rather bored group of seamen just might. See (493).483)
Haven't you got into the mansion yet? Just knock.484)
Tallish, darkish and handsomeish. Youngish, freeish and Singleish. OK?485)
Play the flute by the basket to charm the snake out of it.486)
The anchor is originally tied to the rope, so what do you think you should do? See (411) if you have terminal Notverygoodatadventuresitis.487)
Shake the bottle of champagne by the servant to wake him up. He will then follow you around a lot.488)
Use it to play a xylophone type of instrument. If you can't find one, not even in the secret room, see (491).489)
When in the long grass in the garden, read the compass. Go in the direction it tells you once, and then repeat the process. Eventually you will get to the garden shed.490)
Rummage around in the dustbins. Oh, come on, it's so obvious. See (564).491)
Play a tune on the skeleton's ribs with the beater and the sheet of music.492)
They're going to shoot you if you don't do something about it, like shoot them first. See (370) for how.493)
Give the deck of cards to the crew to relieve them of their boredom. One of them will 'accidentally' lose his ëeys.494)
Gives details of room prices. Read it.495)
Carry the coins and buy the wine from the priest in the temple.497)
Wear the helmet, carry the screwdriver and fuse the electronics in the shop to build a photon ram.498)
Just the right amount of coins to buy something to celebrate with if you want to celebrate something by chance. See (495).499)
Go to the mansion kitchen and fill the bucket from the tap.500)
Didn't it have a really silly logo? Yes, I thought that too.501)
Go to the receptionist with the ten pound note and book a room. She will take your money and give you a key. You can then go into the elevator.502)
The floor is extremely thin here, a good place to drill a Hole and sink the ship. See (528).503)
Give the ten pound note to the crewmember and he will disappear. (Not literally!).504)
Floor 3 is set on a luxury liner, somewhere you've always wanted to be. To escape the dream, you have to sink the ship, you vandal you.505)
Search the posh coats to find the silver coin.506)
The mansion is on floor 4 and is the biggest dream. It was in fact converted from a mini-adventure itself if you wanted to know and it was even if you didn't want to know but now you know anyway.507)
Insert the silver coin into the vending machine to get the packet of balloons.508)
Nothing much interesting up in the loft, except (2), but you have to go through it to get back down to ground floor again. Go down the chimney.509)
~CHOOSE/~ a ~KEY/~ three times from the bunch of keys outside the maintenance room. The third one should fit. Then open the door.511)
Give the envelope to the professor and he will give you your order - the helmet.512)
The vending machine is interesting and so is the toilet bowl.513)
Feed the parrot with the flour biscuit and it will give you an envelope.514)
The first 600 people to write in with the correct pronunciation of 'Heyley Software' and a cheque for £8.95 will win a copy of Stranded515)
Say hello to or sit down beside the girl to start a conversation. Eventually, she will leave, but not before çiving you the rod.516)
The Housemartins live there. Need I say more?517)
Tip the mug and the coins will fall out.518)
The whole game is set within the hotel. It has no name; it doesn't need one in Dreamtime. The hotel has five floors, the first four are actually ingeniously constructed dreams which take on the form of sub-dreams, and the fifth floor is the bit which attempts to link it all together and make some sort of sense of it.520)
You must last through the night without waking up. You are woken up just before you are about to be killed within a dream. To last the whole night you must complete all the four dreams and the end bit as well.521)
Give the mug to the blacksmith (make sure you have emptied it first) and he will make a pickaxe out of it. it must either have been a very big mug or a very small pickaxe.523)
One of the major mansion areas. If you have problems with getting from floor to floor, see (475).524)
The hotel suite is the bit which links up the four dreams and is, to put it one way, base camp. You must return here between dreams and swap a few objects around. (79) are important here.525)
Pour the wine into the river upstream from the crocs (in the westernmost location). This will kill them because it contains a poison and you can then swim across the river.526)
Pour the full bucket onto the fire to put it out. You can then slide down the chimney in safety.527)
Throw the snake at the beggar to kill him. He leaves the mug behind.528)
Drill a hole in the hull of the ship to let water in. It will begin to sink and you can therefore release the lifeboat into the sea. See (534).529)
Pour salt from the salt cellar onto the floor by the ärunk. It will have a curious effect on him which will cause him to drop his wallet.530)
Open the wallet to find the ten pound note.531)
Siphon petrol from the Cadillac into the generator with the plastic tube. Then see (539).532)
Give the glass full of beer to the porter. He will calm down and operate the lift for you.537)
Open the satchel to find the towel and the plastic card.539)
Turn the nut on the generator with the spanner to start it going, but fill it with petrol first. See (531).540)
Tie the rope to the hook. Only go down it if you have released the lifeboat into the sea.541)
Use it to generate some extra leverage. See (539).542)
You must have given the glass to the porter, made the photon ram, got into the heliport, charmed the snake, activated the pressure pad, unlocked the maintenance room door, drilled a hole in the hull, bribed the crewmember, started the generator, put the fire out, set the Skeleton's bones at rest, pulled the plug on the band, opened the front door of the mansion and opened up the void to score full points.543)
You can only fly the copter when you're inside it and wearing the helmet.544)
Strike the match and light the rod with it straight away or it'll go out. Then see (547).545)
Pour the aftershave onto the flowers to reveal a trapdoor which leads to the secret room.546)
From outside the elevator on the carpetted corridor, go S × S to find your room door.547)
Throw the lighted rod (see 544) at the gates to blow them up. You can then go into the heliport.548)
Search the uniform whilst wearing it to find a tenner.549)
Open the brolly and hold it when you jump into the void to win.550)
The Ferrari's registration plate is the correct code for the access service till. What is it? Find out for yourself.551)
Smash the wall of the pyramid with the pickaxe at the western side of the pyramid to break a hole into it.552)
Insert the access card into the access service till and ëey in the code. See (377). The door will then open.553)
When in the toilet bowl, drink the medicine and you will Shrink to six inches tall. You can then venture down the pipe.554)
Whilst holding the glass, pull the lever in the bar to fill it.555)
Open your hotel suite door with the key you got at reception.556)
Press the button to open the elevator door.557)
Throw the dried peas into the pyramid after you have smashed the wall. This will activate the pressure pad, leaving the way clear.558)
Go up from near the south side of the pyramid to find the tomb.559)
Go INto the sarcophagus to escape from the dream.560)
When in the lifeboat in the sea, row with the oars to escape from the dream.561)
You can only leave the captain's room with the oars if you're wearing the uniform.562)
Give the towel to the barman and he will let you go without paying your bill.563)
Go into the elevator when the servant is following you. He will fix it.564)
Search the dustbins to find the spanner.This hintsheet was compiled by Tony Heap and Howard Roberts of Heyley Software, and is copyright Heyley Software.
Solution
Scenario
This is an odd adventure. If the instructions are to be believed, you have eaten some odd-smelling cheese which has resulted in you into having a very weird dream. In fact, it's more like a succession of very weird dreams all loosely tied together by a hotel lift. Some of the puzzles are rather difficult here, and the whole game goes on a tad too long, but it's an enjoyable adventure nonetheless.
Walk Through
In The Hotel: Part 1
| Location Details | Commands |
| Hotel entrance hall | W |
| Hotel reception area | N |
| Restaurant | GET SALT, E |
| Kitchens | GET GLASS, W |
| Restaurant | S |
| Hotel reception area | S |
| Social area | POUR SALT, E |
| Bar | PULL LEVER, W |
| Social area | GET WALLET, OPEN WALLET (You find �10), N |
| Hotel reception area | BOOK ROOM ('You book "the cheapest room in the hotel"!'), W |
| Hotel lift | GIVE GLASS, E |
| Hotel reception area | E |
| Hotel entrance hall | GET BROLLY, OPEN BROLLY, W |
| Hotel reception area | W |
| Hotel lift | DROP WALLET, DROP BROLLY, 5 (Takes you to the fifth floor), E |
| Corridor | S |
| Corridor outside Room 534 | N |
| Corridor outside Room 536 | S |
| Corridor outside Room 532 | OPEN DOOR, E |
| Entrance hall | E |
| Dining room | N |
| Bedroom | INSERT KEY (into hall in the wall; dried peas spill out), GET PEAS, S |
| Dining room | E |
| Kitchen | E |
| Balcony | DROP SALT, W |
| Kitchen | W |
| Dining room | W |
| Entrance hall | W |
| Corridor outside Room 532 | S |
| Corridor outside Room 533 | W |
| Hotel lift | 2 (You go down to the second floor), E
"As you step out of the lift, you fall into a swirling sandstorm. You are completely disorientated. The storm finally dies and you land on a bed. When you wake up, your mind tells you that you are Abdul Kishma, the famous tomb robber." |
Abdul Kishma, Tomb Robber
| Location Details | Commands |
| Dingy hut | E |
| Dusty track | N |
| Dust track | E |
| Egyptian music shop | GET FLUTE, W |
| Dust track | S |
| Dusty track | S |
| Dusty track | E |
| Small mud hut | PLAY FLUTE (You will cause a snake to rise out of the basket), GET SNAKE, W |
| Dusty track | N |
| Dusty track | E |
| Back alley | THROW SNAKE (The snake kills the beggar and takes his mug then returns obiendiently to your inventory!), GET MUG, TIP MUG (You tip the mug upside-down and some coins fall out), DROP SNAKE, GET COINS, W |
| Dusty track | S |
| Dusty track | W |
| Egyptian blacksmith's hut | GIVE MUG (The blacksmith melts it down and places it in a mould to form a pickaxe), E |
| Dusty track | S |
| Dusty track | W |
| Egyptian temple | BUY WINE (The priest takes the coins in exchange), E |
| Dusty track | N |
| Dusty track | N |
| Dusty track | N |
| Dust track | N |
| South of a river | W |
| South bank of a river | POUR WINE (You pour the wine into the river and it floats downstream, killing the crocodiles), E |
| South of a river | SWIM (You swim across the river to the other side) |
| North bank of a river | N |
| Desert | W |
| Desert | SMASH WALL (You hack away the wall easily), THROW PEAS ("You throw the peas into the pyramid and they land on the pressure pad. The next thing you hear is a deafening crash and dust piles out of the pyramid."), E |
| Enormous cracked slab | E |
| West side of pyramid | E |
| Near west side of pyramid | E |
| Centre of pyramid | S |
| Near south side of pyramid | U |
| King's tomb | GET CHEST, IN
'You climb into the sarcophagus, but the floor is weak and it gives way beneath your feet. "Aaargh!" shouts the porter as you land on him.' |
In The Hotel: Part 2
| Location Details | Commands |
| Hotel lift | DROP FLUTE, DROP PICKAXE, 5 (Return to your floor), E |
| Corridor outside room 533 | S |
| Corridor outside room 534 | N |
| Corridor outside room 536 | S |
| Corridor outside room 532 | E |
| Entrance hall | E |
| Dining room | S |
| Bathroom | INSERT CHEST (You put it in the hole - and a deck of cards fall out), GET DECK, N |
| Dining room | W |
| Entrance hall | W |
| Corridor outside room 532 | S |
| Corridor outside room 533 | W |
| Hotel lift | 3 ("The porter operates the lift and your floor is reached."), E
'You step out of the lift into a waiting room, where you take a seat. Suddenly, you are hit over the head from behind and you fall unconscious. You wake up some hours later in an easy-chair.' |
The Boat Dream
| Location Details | Commands |
| Lounge | S |
| By swimming pool | W |
| West deck | S |
| East deck | IN |
| Lifeboat | WEAR UNIFORM, OUT |
| East deck | E |
| Captain's room | GET OARS, W |
| East deck | DROP OARS, SEARCH UNIFORM (You find another £10), DROP UNIFORM, S |
| West deck | E |
| Crew's mess | GIVE DECK ("You give the deck of cards to one of the crew and he starts a game with his mates. Soon they start getting excitied when money changes hands. On fails to notice that he drops something), LOOK (See a bunch of keys), GET BUNCH, W |
| West deck | S |
| Stern | UNTIE ROPE ("You untie the rope and watch the anchor fall and disappear beneath the sea."), GET ROPE, E |
| East deck | N |
| East deck | CHOOSE KEY (Your first choice will not work), CHOOSE KEY (Your second choice will not work), CHOOSE KEY (This third one will always work), OPEN DOOR, W |
| Small maintenance room | GET DRILL, E |
| East deck | N |
| East deck | W |
| By a swimming pool | N |
| Lounge | GIVE NOTE (You successfully bribe the crewmember to take a long walk), D |
| Very bottom of liner | DRILL (You drill a hole; water starts pouring in, pushing you back up the stairs to...) |
| Lounge | S |
| By a swimming pool | W |
| West deck | S |
| East deck | WEAR UNIFORM, TIE ROPE, PULL LEVER (You release the lifeboat), GET OARS, D |
| In the lifeboat | ROW
'You begin to row. You row for hours and hours, but no land appears. You get very angry and throw the oar down. The boat cracks and water begins to pour in. You fall unconscious underwater. When you wake up, you recognise a blue shape...' |
In The Hotel: Part 3
| Location Details | Commands |
| Hotel lift | DROP OARS, DROP DRILL, 5 (Back to your floor), E |
| Corridor outside room 533 | S |
| Corridor outside room 534 | N |
| Corridor outside room 536 | S |
| Corridor outside room 532 | E |
| Entrance hall | E |
| Dining room | E |
| Kitchen | INSERT BUNCH (into bunch-of-keys shaped hole; a match falls out), GET MATCH, W |
| Dining room | W |
| Entrance hall | W |
| Corridor outside room 532 | S |
| Corridor outside room 533 | W |
| Hotel lift | 1 (You go to floor 1), E
'As you step out of the lift, you enter a swirling vortex of shapes. You become dizzy for a while, and then normality is restored. Your memory tells you that you are Austin Rover, the famous author, and have been drinking heavily all day.' |
In The Hotel: Part 4
| Location Details | Commands |
| Hotel lift | DROP RAM, 5 (You go to the fifth floor), E |
| Corridor outside room 533 | S |
| Corridor outside room 534 | N |
| Corridor outside room 536 | S |
| Corridor outside room 532 | E |
| Entrance hall | E |
| Dining room | INSERT SCREWDRIVER ('You put it in the hole and a welly falls out'), GET WELLY, W |
| Entrance hall | W |
| Corridor outside room 532 | S |
| Corridor outside room 533 | W |
| Hotel lift | 4 (You go to the fourth floor), E
'You step out of the lift into a blue sphere, which spins round very fast, and you fall asleep. When you awake, you are told that you are Inspector Henry Figleaf and have been sent to Strange Mansion because of complaints about noise.' |
Henry Figleaf, Inspector
| Location Details | Commands |
| Mansion portway | KNOCK (An old butler opens in and says "Come in - everyone is welcome here."), N |
| South end of main hall | E |
| Cloakroom | SEARCH (You find some money), W |
| South end of main hall | N |
| Centre of main hall | E |
| Study | GET ERASER, N |
| Library | GET MUSIC, S |
| Study | W |
| Centre of main hall | N |
| North end of main hall | N |
| Dining room | E |
| Kitchen | D |
| Maids' room | DROP WELLY, DROP ERASER, DROP MUSIC, W |
| Dimly lit hallway | S |
| Wine cellar | GET CHAMPAGNE, GET TUBE, N |
| End of dimply lit hallway | E |
| Maids' room | S |
| Servants' quarters | SHAKE CHAMPAGNE ('You shake the bottle and the cork shoots off with a loud pop. The servant awakes and shouts "Take me upstairs to find my earmuffs - then I can get some sleep!". The fright makes you drop the bottle and it smashes.'), N |
| Maids' room | U |
| Kitchen | N |
| Back yard | SEARCH BINS (You rummage around for a while and something shiny catches your eye), GET SPANNER, S |
| Kitchen | E |
| Garage | SYPHON PETROL ('You put one end of the tube in the cadilac's petrol tank and you direct it into the generator.'), TURN NUT ('You fit the spanner around the square nut and, with a bit of effort, turn it. The generator chugs into life.'), DROP SPANNER, D |
| Service pit | WEAR SUCKERS, U |
| Garage | W |
| Kitchen | DROP TUBE, W |
| Dining room | S |
| North end of main hall | PRESS BUTTON ('You press the button. In a few seconds, the metal door slides noisily sideways, revealing the lift iteslf. The button disappears into the wall.'), W
'The servant shouts "How do you expect me to get upstairs if the lift isn't working?" He fiddles with the wall panel and the lift whirrs into life. He takes the lift up, goes out, and disappears. The lift goes down again with you in it.' |
| Mansion lift | U |
| Mansion lift | E |
| Near top end of landing | E |
| Nursery | GET SPECTRUM, GET BEATER, W |
| Top end of landing | S |
| Near top end of landing | E |
| Bathroom | GET AFTERSHAVE, W |
| Near top end of landing | S |
| Middle of landing | S |
| Bottom end of landing | E |
| Toilet | INSERT SILVER COIN ('You put the coin in the slot and something drops out of the bottom of the machine onto the floor.'), W |
| Near bottom end of the landing | W |
| Store room | GET BUCKET, E |
| Near bottom end of landing | N |
| Middle of landing | D
'You are walking down the stairway when you hear wood snapping beneath your feet. You jump off to the side and run north, hearing the stairway crash to the ground behind you.' |
| North end of main hall | N |
| Dining room | E |
| Kitchen | FILL BUCKET, W |
| Dining room | W |
| Drawing room | POUR BUCKET ('You throw the bucket of water onto the fire and it slowly dies. The bucket melts.'), E |
| Dining room | E |
| Kitchen | D |
| Maids' room | DROP SPECTRUM, GET MUSIC, W |
| End of dimly lit hallway | W |
| West end of short hallway | POUR AFTERSHAVE ('You pour the aftershave onto the weeds and they shrivel up and die, revealing a trapdoor.'), D |
| Secret room | PLAY SKELETON
'You begin to play on the skeleton's ribs and you are surprised when he wakes up. "Hmm," he says. "Beethoven's VI symphony is my favourite tune. Here's a token of my appreciation." He gives you something and falls asleep, content.' U |
| West end of short hallway | S |
| Small laboratory | GET STOPPER, N |
| West end of short hallway | E |
| End of dimly lit hallway | E |
| Maids' room | DROP BEATER, DROP MUSIC, GET ERASER, N |
| Moulding room | POUR SOLVENT ('You pour the solvent into the machine, which triggers an automatic start switch and the machine chugs into life.'), INSERT ERASER, INSERT STOPPER ('You put it in the hole and you hear the machine mixing the rubbers together.'), S |
| Maids' room | U |
| Kitchen | W |
| Dining room | S |
| North end of main hall | W |
| Mansion lift | U |
| Mansion lift | E |
| Near top end of landing | E |
| Bathroom | GET MEDICINE, W |
| Near top end of landing | S |
| Middle of landing | S |
| Bottom end of landing | E |
| Toilet | GET BALLOONS, D |
| Standing in toilet bowl | DRINK MEDICINE ('You drunk the medicine and nothing happens. Then you begin to shrink until you are only six inches tall.'), E |
| U-Bend | U |
| Vertical black pipe | U |
| Vertical black pipe | U |
| Vertical black pipe | U |
| On plank in loft | S |
| End of plank in loft | W |
| Small room | GET ACCESS, E |
| End of plank in loft | N |
| On plank in loft | N |
| End of plank in loft | W |
| Chimney | D |
| Hallway down chimney | D |
| Drawing room | E |
| Dining room | E |
| Kitchen | N |
| Back yard | W |
| Mansion | N |
| Eight foot grass | E |
| Eight foot grass | N |
| Eight foot grass | E |
| Eight foot grass | N |
| Eight foot grass | N |
| Eight foot grass | W |
| Eight foot grass | N |
| Outside garden shed | GET HOSE, S |
| Eight foot grass | S |
| Back of mansion | E |
| Back yard | S |
| Kitchen | D |
| Maids' room | GET WELLY, N |
| Moulding room | INSERT BALLOONS, INSERT WELLY, S |
| Maids' room | GET SPECTRUM, GET MUSIC, N |
| Moulding room | INSERT SPECTRUM, INSERT HOSE, WEAR GLOVE, S |
| Maids' room | U |
| Kitchen | GET TUBE, W |
| Dining room | S |
| North end of main hall | W |
| Mansion lift | U |
| Mansion lift | E |
| Near top end of landing | S |
| Middle of landing | S |
| Near bottom end of landing | S |
| Bottom end of landing | INSERT ACCESS ('You insert the card and the machine gobbles it up. The till then says "Key in your registration code"), 8639, S |
| West end of main bedroom | PULL PLUG ('All the music stops. "Oh no! We've blown the fuses again. We'd better get out of there before the 'leccy board rumbles us," says one of the band. They all rush past you and a minute later, you hear a door slam downstairs.), N |
| Bottom end of landing | N |
| Bottom end of landing | N |
| Near bannister with rope | D |
| Centre of main hall | S |
| South end of main hall | S ('There's a door in the way') |
| South end of main hall | OPEN DOOR, S
'As you step out of the door, you slip and fall. Not onto the floor, but onto a man in a blue suit.' |
In The Hotel: Part 5
| Location Details | Commands |
| Hotel lift | GET BROLLY, GET FLUTE, 5 (You go to floor 5), E |
| Corridor outside room 533 | S |
| Corridor outside room 534 | N |
| Corridor outside room 536 | S |
| Corridor outside room 532 | E |
| Entrance hall | E |
| Dining room | E |
| Kitchen | E |
| Hotel suite balcony | INSERT MUSIC ('You put it in the hole and an unearthly voice booms, "Jump into the void. Do not be afraid." A black square in the sky opens up. It shimmers strangely.'), GET SALT, JUMP
'The brolly gives you a bit of lift and you land in the void... You wake up later in your own bed. "Come on, time for school," says your mother. "Aw, mum..." |
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