Quill Adventure Guides

Introduction

This page started out of a desire to revisit the text adventures of the 1980s that I enjoyed so much as a child/teenager and study how they were written (as well as finding the hidden easter-eggs that I may have missed in my original playthroughs). I came across a tool called UnQuill and, using this to work out the Quill data format, wrote my own tool for reverse engineering Quill games into HTML pages. The guides below were based on the output generated by this tool with maps and walkthroughs added.

Guides

These guides include a breakdown of the full Quill source code, reverse engineered from the original ZX Spectrum and Atari game snapshots.

The Adventures of Barsak the Dwarf

An early Gilsoft fantasy adventure

Aural Quest

A game based around UK band, The Stranglers

The Boggit Part 1

Part 1 of Delta 4's spoof take on JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit

The Boggit Part 2

Part 2 of Delta 4's spoof take on JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit

The Boggit Part 3

Part 3 of Delta 4's spoof take on JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit

Bored of the Rings Part 1

Part 1 of Delta 4's spoof take on JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings

Bored of the Rings Part 2

Part 2 of Delta 4's spoof take on JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings

Bored of the Rings Part 3

Part 3 of Delta 4's spoof take on JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings

Diamond Trail

One of the first games ever written by Gilsoft with the Quill

Hampstead

Melbourne House's 1984 game about social climbing

Moonstone

A less well known Atari fantasy adventure by Tony Longworth

Subsunk

A Firebird budget adventure in which you have to escape a submarine

The Time Lords Amulet

A 1984 game involving time travel and the search for pieces of an amulet

Videos

Here are some video walkthroughs for Quill games

The Adventures of Barsak the Dwarf

An early Gilsoft fantasy adventure

Aural Quest

A game based around UK band, The Stranglers

Bored of the Rings Part 1

Part 1 of Delta 4's spoof take on JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings

Bored of the Rings Part 2

Part 2 of Delta 4's spoof take on JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings

Bored of the Rings Part 3

Part 3 of Delta 4's spoof take on JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings

Diamond Trail

One of the first Quill adventures from Gilsoft

Moonstone

Walkthrough of the Atari game by the author


Email me at quilladventureguides@gmail.com with any suggestions you may have or bugs that you discover.)