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a2_Eamon_206_Curse_of_the_Hellsblade_1994_/Eamon_206_Curse_of_the_Hellsblade_1994__.do DISK VOLUME #254
A 003 EAMON ADVENTURE #206
A 023 CURSE OF THE HELLSBLADE
T 001 LAST UPDATE: 11/29/90
T 002 EAMON.NAME
T 024 EAMON.ROOMS
T 013 EAMON.MONSTERS
T 019 EAMON.ARTIFACTS
T 190 EAMON.DESC
A 088 MAIN PGM
* B 003 EAMON 7.0 SEARCH ROUTINE
T 002 FRESH MEAT
T 002 FS.PARMS
B 002 FS.PTRS
B 014 FS.SVAR
B 005 FS.STR
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Text found in Eamon_206_Curse_of_the_Hellsblade_1994__.do/CURSE OF THE HELLSBLADE.bas:

1 REM CURSE OF THE HELLSBLADE
6 REM 11/23/90
7 REM EAMON ADVENTURER'S GUILD7625 HAWKHAVEN DR.CLEMMONS, NC 27012
8 PRINT CHR$(4);"MAXFILES 3"
10 FF$ = CHR$(12):D$ = CHR$(4)
20 PRINT D$"OPEN FRESH MEAT": PRINT D$"READ FRESH MEAT": INPUT RE: INPUT NA$: PRINT D$"CLOSE"
30 PRINT D$"OPEN EAMON.NAME": PRINT D$"READ EAMON.NAME": INPUT AN$: PRINT D$"CLOSE"
40 TEXT : HOME :SP = (40 - LEN(AN$))/2: HTAB SP: PRINT AN$
110 VTAB 5: PRINT "GREETINGS, "NA$"!": GOSUB 7000
120 VTAB 10: INPUT "DOST THOU HAVE 80-COLUMN CAPABILITY? ";C$: GOSUB 7000: IF LEFT$(C$,1) = "Y" THEN PRINT : INPUT "WOULDST USE IT? ";C$: GOSUB 7000
130 GOSUB 8000:C$ = LEFT$(C$,1): POKE 768,40: IF C$ = "Y" THEN POKE 768,80: PRINT CHR$(4);"PR#3": PRINT FF$: HOME
140 PRINT "THE VERSION 7.0 EAMON SYSTEM HAS A NUMBER OF CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS EAMON VERSIONS:"
145 PRINT : PRINT "1) ABBREVIATIONS ARE ALWAYS RECOGNIZED": PRINT "2) SECRET PASSAGES ARE NO LONGER FOUND USING THE 'LOOK' CMD; INSTEAD THERE IS PROVISION FOR CONCEALING DOORS": PRINT "3) NEW ARTIFACT TYPE: 'WEARABLE"
150 PRINT "4) MANY ARTIFACT TYPES HAVE NEW FIELDS": PRINT "5) WEAPONS WITH MAX HITS OF MORE THAN 24 ARE CLASSED 'MAGICAL'": PRINT "6) SPELL ABILITY REPLENISHES IF YOU GIVE IT A 'REST'": PRINT "7) YOU CAN 'HEAL' OTHER MONSTERS"
155 PRINT "8) IF YOU 'GIVE' A HEALING POTION TO A MONSTER, HE WILL TAKE A SIP AND RETURN IT TO YOU": PRINT "9) NEW CMDS: REQUEST, WEAR, REMOVE, USE": PRINT "10) YOU CAN 'INVENTORY' OTHER MONSTERS"
160 PRINT "11) 'EXAMINE' (MONSTER) ALSO GIVES THE STATE OF ITS WOUNDS": IF LEFT$(C$,1) < >"Y" THEN GOSUB 8000
165 PRINT "12) 'INVENTORY' GIVES THE STATE OF YOUR WOUNDS": PRINT "13) MONSTERS KNOW WHICH WEAPON IS THEIRS IF THEY DROP IT": PRINT "14) CHANCES TO HIT ARE NOW DETERMINED BY AGILITY ONLY": PRINT "15) GROUP MONSTERS ARE SUPPORTED"
170 PRINT : PRINT "OTHER CHANGES WILL BECOME EVIDENT DURING PLAY"
200 GOSUB 8000
1000 VTAB 10: INPUT "READ AUTHOR'S NOTES? ";A$: IF LEFT$(A$,1) = "N" THEN 2000
1010 PRINT FF$: HOME : PRINT "'CURSE OF THE HELLSBLADE' WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN SOME YEARS BACK BY JOHN NELSON FOR HIS 'KNIGHTQUEST' GAMING SYSTEM."
1020 PRINT : PRINT "'KNIGHTQUEST' WAS MEANT TO BE THE GAMING SYSTEM TO END ALL GAMING SYSTEMS, WITH SO MANY FEATURES AND SUBTLETIES THAT AN ADVENTURER MIGHT PLAY 100 DIFFERENT ADVENTURES AND STILL NOT SEE THEM ALL."
1030 PRINT : PRINT " UNFORTUNATELY, JOHN RAN OUT OF MEMORY LONG BEFORE HE RAN OUT OF IDEAS, AND HE MOVED ON THE THE IBM PC TO GET THE ELBOW ROOM HE NEEDED TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT."
1040 PRINT "'HELLSBLADE' WAS LARGELY COMPLETED, AND WAS BEING USED BY JOHN AS A TEST BENCH FOR THE 'KNIGHTQUEST' SYSTEM. IT HAS BEEN LANGUISHING FOR 4 OR 5 YEARS, NOW, AN ORPHAN ADVENTURE."
1045 GOSUB 8000
1050 PRINT : PRINT " AFTER SEVERAL YEARS OF NAGGING, JOHN FINALLY GRANTED ME PERMISSION TO TRY TO CONVERT 'CURSE OF THE HELLSBLADE' INTO AN EAMON ADVENTURE."
1060 PRINT : PRINT "THE FINAL 'KNIGHTQUEST' VERSION HAS BEEN LOST. ALL I HAD TO GO ON WAS AN EARLIERVERSION THAT LACKED THE QUEST AND MOST OF THE PUZZLES, AND WAS IN PRETTY ROUGH SHAPE. THERE WERE ALSO TWO DIFFICULTIES TO OVERCOME:"
1070 PRINT : PRINT " 1) THE DATABASE STRUCTURE IS *VERY* DIFFERENT": PRINT " 2) NO DOCUMENTATION OF ANY KIND"
1075 IF C$ < >"Y" THEN GOSUB 8000
1080 PRINT : PRINT "THE RESULT IS WHAT YOU SEE HERE. JOHN TELLS ME THAT I HAVE COMPLETELY REWRITTEN THE PLOT, QUEST, AND MOST OF THE PUZZLES, BUT I DIDN'T HAVE MUCH TO GO ON! "
1085 PRINT : PRINT : HTAB 20 +(C$ = "Y") *40: PRINT "TOM ZUCHOWSKI"
1090 VTAB 23: PRINT TAB( 5)"HIT ANY KEY TO BEGIN THE GAME:";: GET Q$: PRINT : PRINT FF$: HOME
2000 PRINT FF$: HOME : HTAB 5 +(C$ = "Y") *20: INVERSE : PRINT "-> CURSE OF THE HELLSBLADE <-": NORMAL : PRINT
2010 PRINT "IT HAPPENED ONE DAY THAT YOU CHANCED UPON A WONDROUS SWORD OF BLACK METAL. THIS SWORD HAD A MARVELOUS EDGE THAT DID NOT DULL, AND IT SANG EERIE MELODIESAS YOU TESTED ITS EDGE AGAINST NEARBY SAPLINGS."
2020 PRINT : PRINT "BUT HOLD! YOU CANNOT PUT THE SWORD DOWN! TRY AS YOU MIGHT, YOUR HAND WILL NOT LET GO OF THE HILTS! THE MOST YOU CAN MANAGE IS TO PASS IT TO YOUR LEFT HAND,THUS FREEING UP YOUR SWORD ARM FOR OTHER WEAPONS."
2030 IF C$ < >"Y" THEN GOSUB 8000
2040 PRINT : PRINT "LATER THAT SAME DAY, YOU MET UP WITH A SMALL BAND OF COMPANIONS, AND SHOWED THEM YOUR NEW-FOUND DILEMMA. ONE OF THE BAND WHO HAD SOME KNOWLEDGE OF SUCH"
2050 PRINT "SWORDS, TOLD YOU THAT HE RECOGNIZED IT AS A WEAPON OF HELL, AND TOLD YOU OF A CAVE THAT IS REPUTED TO HOLD THE KEY TO LIFT ITS CURSE."
2060 PRINT : PRINT "YOU LISTENED CLOSELY AS HE TOLD YOU HOW TO FIND IT. PERHAPS YOU CAN FIND THE ANSWERS TO YOUR PROBLEM THERE.
2070 PRINT : PRINT "STILL, IT IS A MARVELOUS SWORD, AND YOU COULD DO WORSE THAN BE SADDLED WITH SUCHAN OBVIOUSLY MAGICAL BLADE. YOUR FRIENDS WATCHED WITH INTEREST AS YOU READIED ITAND PREPARED TO DEMONSTRATE ITS EDGE ON A NEARBY TREE LIMB."
2080 GOSUB 8000
2090 PRINT : PRINT "AS YOU TOOK AIM AT THE LIMB, THE SWORD BEGAN ITS STRANGE SONG. YOU FELT A TREMENDOUS SURGE OF STRENGTH FLOW INTO YOUR ARM AS YOU SEVERED A 6-INCH LIMB WITH ONE BLOW!"
2100 PRINT : PRINT "AND THEN, EVEN BEFORE YOU KNEW WHAT WAS HAPPENING, YOU SWUNG ABOUT, AND YOU WATCHED IN HORROR AS THE SWORD SLEW ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS! ITS SONG GREW DEEPER AND STRONGER AS IT TASTED THE BLOOD OF EACH."
2110 PRINT : PRINT "EVEN THOUGH YOU STRUGGLED WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT, YOU COULD NOT CONTROL YOUR BODY UNTIL ALL WERE SLAIN! THE SWORD PULSED WITH POWER, AND SEEMED TO BE CHUCKLING TO ITSELF."
2120 GOSUB 8000
2130 PRINT " YOU REALIZED THEN THAT THIS BLADE IS MORE THAN JUST CURSED, BUT MUST IN FACT BE POSSESSED BY A DEMON.
2140 PRINT : PRINT "AND IF THAT WASN'T BAD ENOUGH, YOU HAD A GREAT DEAL OF DIFFICULTY GETTING THE BLACK SWORD TO LET GO OF YOUR SWORD HAND SO THAT YOU COULD TRANSFER IT TO YOUR LEFT ONE.
2150 PRINT : PRINT " IT'S PLAIN THAT THE SWORD IS STRONGER THAN YOU, AND IF IT DRINKS MUCH MORE BLOOD IT WILL CONTROL YOU COMPLETELY."
2160 PRINT : PRINT "APART FROM THAT, IT SIMPLY WON'T DO TO GO ABOUT SLAYING EVERYONE THAT YOU MEET.WITHOUT A DOUBT, YOU MUST FIND THAT CAVE AND RID YOURSELF OF THE CURSE OF THIS HELLSBLADE."
5000 PRINT D$"RUN MAIN PGM"
7000 FOR I = 1 TO 1000: NEXT : RETURN
8000 VTAB 23: PRINT TAB( 8)"HIT ANY KEY TO CONTINUE:";: GET Q$: PRINT : PRINT FF$: HOME : RETURN

Text found in Eamon_206_Curse_of_the_Hellsblade_1994__.do/EAMON ADVENTURE #206.bas:

0 AN$ = "CURSE OF THE HELLSBLADE":NU = 206:A2$ = "JOHN NELSON & TOM ZUCHOWSKI"
5 ONERR GOTO 9
6 D$ = CHR$(4): PRINT D$"VERIFY GAME.PTRS": PRINT D$"RUN MAIN PGM"
9 POKE 216,0
10 D$ = CHR$(4): PRINT CHR$(21): TEXT : HOME : INVERSE
20 S$ = "****************************************": PRINT S$; SPC( 60 - LEN(AN$)/2);AN$; SPC( 60): HTAB 1: PRINT S$: NORMAL
30 PRINT TAB( 11);"EAMON ADVENTURE #";NU: PRINT : PRINT S$
40 PRINT "THE EAMON GAMING SYSTEM WAS DEVELOPED BY DON BROWN & JOHN NELSON": PRINT : PRINT AN$;" WAS": PRINT " WRITTEN BY ";A2$
50 PRINT : PRINT : PRINT "TO RUN THIS ADVENTURE, YOU MUST BOOT FROM THE EAMON MASTER DISKETTE.": PRINT
60 END