Adventure in Bristol

Adventure In Bristol





Adventure in Bristol is a game in which you must go around the centre of Bristol


finding clues, and ultimately performing the action that will halt the adventure.





You begin outside the SS Great Britain and you already have the first clue. You


must read the clue before you get the next and you may only read a clue once.


The adventure must be complete in 90 minutes - this is not real time -


different actions take different amounts of time. TIME tells you how much time


has passed and WAIT lets 5 minutes pass (you will need this!)


The language interpreter allows two word (verb-noun) entry and prepositions


may be used with LOOK. Some words like LOOK, MONEY, TIME do not require a noun.


All words can be shortened (EXAMINE may become EXAM or EX, but not E which will


be interpreted as EAST). The interpreter will always take the first match it can


find, but it does not search alphabetically, so be careful.


The vocabulary used is not very large (about 50 or 60 words) so you will often


get the response 'I DONT KNOW THE WORD "word"'. However, typing LOOK DOWN BUS


will tell you that the computer does not know what DOWN means which it does,


since DOWN is a direction. The reason for this is that some words are only


recognised in a certain context, enabling the computer to interpret more


quickly.


It is not possible to delete errors, so press ENTER if you go wrong and retype


the sentence.





To RUN type LOAD "BRISTOL" and start the tape.





WARNING: Do not press BREAK as the program will crash.











Transcribed by GS for World of Spectrum from a JPG supplied by Garry Lancaster.


13/03/09