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I have been kindly sent a copy of this adventure, and I will try to complete it over the coming days. I dare say I will remember none of it (though I do remember a trick at the end to win).

vanpeebles wrote:What was Quest For Dragonsword written in?

Gibberish, mostly.

We originally wrote it on the Spectrum, then my friend Ian Foot tried to rewrite it in assembly language on the QL, but I believe we eventually just used something called Quill.

Welcome to the forum! It's great to see old game authors returning :)

I don't consider myself a game author, to be honest, but thanks. Having said that, I did write all by myself a game called Insect for the Spectrum, which was like Pacman but with an insect that never stopped moving and had to ...

I would love to play the adventure again myself. I have just seen your website. Did you get to the very end of the adventure and complete it?

We wrote Quest for the DragonSword when we were about 18 or 19 years old, back in 1987. Ian Ward and Ian Foot were school friends. I thought the game had vanished into oblivion. Did anyone actually play the game?