I’ve been exploring an old box of paperwork, handwritten notes, maps and source code from back in the early 1980s. Initially, I went looking for my old VIC 20 text adventures and found much more material that I’d forgotten about and thought it would have lost to time by now.
Well, lucky for me I discovered a treasure trove of items, and when I get around to sorting them out, I’ll post them here in the blog.
Tonight’s discovery was the original C64 source code for Sunken Treasure, written in Commodore BASIC v2.0 and coded in 1984. This release is the version I submitted to Personal Computer Games for publication as a type-in listing but unfortunately, the magazine folded before it got to print.
The following year this version was was released on disk 10 of the GOSCOM Commodore Users Group software library and made available to new club members.
Original source code for Sunken Treasure C64 version 1.0, 13th January 1985
There were several revisions made to Sunken Treasure over the years, with 1986 version 2.0 got an all-new title screen with sprite logo but the rest of the code reminded the same. Version 2 was released and through Mailsoft Pty Ltd and sold via mail order and small outlets.
In 1987 I converted this adventure to The Quill. Only a few things were changed. The Quilled version was known as version 3.0 and was released and sold in Australia by Entertainment Software. This release also received a new bitmapped title screen.