Sunken Treasure

Sunken Treasure was written in 1984 as a 2.8 KB BASIC program for the unexpanded Commodore VIC-20. Its new Lantern edition keeps every room, puzzle and line of the original, and builds a larger game around them.

A storm has lifted an old wreck half out of the water on the reef. A sign on the beach says what to do: Leave treasure here. In 1984 there was one treasure, a chest of gold coins guarded by an octopus. Now there are five. Each one left by the sign scores 20%, and bringing back all five wins the game.

Fact Sheet

• Title: Sunken Treasure Adventure, 42nd anniversary edition
• Author: Scott Julian
• 1984, Commodore VIC 20 (2.8k BASIC)
• 1985, Commodore 64 (BASIC)
• 1987, Commodore 64 with The Quill
• 2026, Various platforms with Lantern

Platforms

• Commodore 64
• Commodore 128 (40 column)
• Plus/4
• VIC-20 (+16k)
• PET / CBM (16k)
• Atari XL/XE (48k)
• Apple //e, //c, IIgs
• Amstrad CPC
• ZX Spectrum 48k
• Mattel Aquarius
• Linux
• Atari ST

Built with Lantern

Lantern is an adventure writing system for 8-bit computers, modelled on Gilsoft's The Quill. A game is written once as a database, and every Lantern machine reads the same file. Sunken Treasure plays on the Commodore 64, 128, Plus/4, C16, VIC-20 and PET, the Atari 8-bit and ST, the Apple II, the BBC Micro, the Amstrad CPC, the ZX Spectrum, the Mattel Aquarius and Linux. On the VIC-20 it needs a 16K expansion.