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Warlock of Firetop Mountain

Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2019 10:41 pm
by RWAP
Does anyone know if Warlock of Firetop Mountain was converted to the QL?

One of my customers has recently acquired quite a few items of QL software and there was a microdrive case with a simple label on the side saying "Warlock of Firetop Mountain" and a cartridge inside. Unfortunately, the tape is snapped and jammed, so no chance of reading it!

It might be a conversion of the Spectrum version (which I think was written in Quill), or just the Spectrum version on Spectrum microdrive (although everything else was QL software apparently)....

Re: Warlock of Firetop Mountain

Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2019 11:15 pm
by Dave
That was a Crystal game. Crystal never wrote or released any QL games.

Re: Warlock of Firetop Mountain

Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2019 9:37 pm
by Outsoft
I think I've dumped some months ago but Max haven't test it.

Were 2 Md's and with It I found another MIA with a very long name.

Need to check it ;)

Re: Warlock of Firetop Mountain

Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2019 9:47 pm
by Outsoft
Attached the dump ;)

Re: Warlock of Firetop Mountain

Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 9:03 am
by vanpeebles
It is a QL game? :)

Re: Warlock of Firetop Mountain

Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 9:25 am
by Dave
No. Crystal ceased trading before the QL was released.

Re: Warlock of Firetop Mountain

Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 9:41 am
by Derek_Stewart
vanpeebles wrote:It is a QL game? :)
Yes, load the .mdv file into Q-emulator and do a DIR, you will see 3 files:

WARLOCK_12
WARLOCK_13

Which are Superbasic files.

If you do not know how to look at MDV files, I have created a ZIP file see attached.

Looks like 2 Superbasic adventure programmes.

Re: Warlock of Firetop Mountain

Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 9:43 am
by RalfR
Derek_Stewart wrote:If you do not know how to look at MDV files, I have created a ZIP file see attached.
Lost in a cave ...? ;)

Re: Warlock of Firetop Mountain

Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 10:38 am
by dilwyn
Ralf R. wrote:
Derek_Stewart wrote:If you do not know how to look at MDV files, I have created a ZIP file see attached.
Lost in a cave ...? ;)
The zip file has ended up in Wales, let me see if I can shove it back through Ralf's cave and into QL Forum... :twisted:

Actually, it looks to be well indented and fairly easy to read, although I did notice poor code like IF key$ INSTR "Aa" THEN... - obviously checking for both upper and lower case keypresses even though INSTR is not case sensitive on QL. Ported from another system, perhaps?

Do we know who the author of this is and whether it's OK (copyright) for me to make it available via my website's games page?
warlock.zip

Re: Warlock of Firetop Mountain

Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 11:05 am
by RalfR
Thank you :) . It is not so badly written as QL.Gardener :D . And a GOTO in a DefProc just makes sense if compiled, as intended to run as SB it is badly behaved.