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Taken from the website describing the Pennsylvania IF-Walkthrough:

"...such works as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and
Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny."

I recently read all 10 Zelazny Amber books in "The Great Book of Amber." I
have not yet read the authorized follow-ups or prequels by.... is it
Bettencourt? Something like that?

Anyway, is the game based on "Nine Princes..." available in the IF Archive?
Was it published by one of the late great IF companies, or was this a hobby
project? Can anybody point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

---- Sidney Merk
 
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> Anyway, is the game based on "Nine Princes..." available in the IF Archive?
> Was it published by one of the late great IF companies, or was this a hobby
> project? Can anybody point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks,
>
> ---- Sidney Merk

I'm pretty sure they have it at Home of the Underdogs:

www.the-underdogs.org

I had this game when I was a kid. It was published by Telarium in the
United States and was a pretty faithful and straight ahead adaptation
of the books. If you ever get stuck (aside from one unconventional
puzzle) you can usually get the solution straight from the text of the
novel.
 
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Here, Sidney Merk <sid-ney-merk@hot-mail.com (remove dashes)> wrote:
> Taken from the website describing the Pennsylvania IF-Walkthrough:
>
> "...such works as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and
> Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny."
>
> I recently read all 10 Zelazny Amber books in "The Great Book of Amber." I
> have not yet read the authorized follow-ups or prequels by.... is it
> Bettencourt? Something like that?

John Betancourt, yes. I took a brief look, and decided he'd done a
terrible job. (But it was a brief look.)

> Anyway, is the game based on "Nine Princes..." available in the IF Archive?
> Was it published by one of the late great IF companies, or was this a hobby
> project? Can anybody point me in the right direction?

I believe that refers to the Apple-2-era game by Trillium...
<http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/p,31/gameId,6935/> has some data
on it. It's not on the Archive.

It was one of those text adventures which was heavily illustrated, but
still based on a text parser.

I remember playing a little bit of it, but I got stuck early. Or maybe
the game died on me. (This being 1985, I was still playing far more
games via copyright violation than I did via paying for them. Results
were mixed, as anyone of the era can tell you.)

--Z

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> John Betancourt, yes. I took a brief look, and decided he'd done a
> terrible job. (But it was a brief look.)

I bought one of the books from B&N (maybe "Chaos and Amber") -- just haven't
read it yet. Either the others are out of print, or they haven't been
published yet. I've been too busy to really check into it.

> > Anyway, is the game based on "Nine Princes..." available in the IF
Archive?
> > Was it published by one of the late great IF companies, or was this a
hobby
> > project? Can anybody point me in the right direction?

> I believe that refers to the Apple-2-era game by Trillium...
> <http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/p,31/gameId,6935/> has some data
> on it. It's not on the Archive.

Thanks -- and also to Steve, Peter, and NObody for additional suggestions. I
downloaded the DOS version from the-underdogs.org, but it tries to buzz my
A: drive and subsequently exits (SUBST A: for a dir on my C: drive doesn't
seem to make a difference -- I'm going to hunt around for a disk and try
that).

I hadn't heard of Telarium/Trillium, but then again, at the height of IF
commercial viability I was just getting started with hobbyist adventure
games. It looks like the company was known for graphic adventures liscensed
from well-known authors.

Thanks,

---- Sidney Merk
 
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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:29:46 -0500, "Sidney Merk"
<sid-ney-merk@hot-mail.com (remove dashes)> wrote:

>Taken from the website describing the Pennsylvania IF-Walkthrough:
>
>"...such works as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and
>Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny."
>
>I recently read all 10 Zelazny Amber books in "The Great Book of Amber." I
>have not yet read the authorized follow-ups or prequels by.... is it
>Bettencourt? Something like that?
>
>Anyway, is the game based on "Nine Princes..." available in the IF Archive?
>Was it published by one of the late great IF companies, or was this a hobby
>project? Can anybody point me in the right direction?
>

I don't think it's at the archive.Your best bet would be:

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?name=Nine+Princes+in+Amber

"Nine Princes" was by Telarium, one of the leading graphic/text
adventure companies of the 80s. While their parser wasn't up to the
standard of Infocom's, it wasn't bad.

Here's a few links to info on Telarium, their games & their parser:

http://www.if-legends.org/~adventure/Telarium_Corporation.html

http://www.if-legends.org/~ifguide/essays/Telarium.html

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/Articles/parser-war.html

Cheers,

Steve
 
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