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- Visual Basic 6 Port
Visual Basic 6 port of The Quest. A 32bit version for installation on modern Windows (10/11)
Windows Installer (Windows 11 and later) (The file is compressed with ZIP.)
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About the Story
A text adventure first created inside ICL in the early 1980s and later ported across multiple systems, from mainframes to CP/M, DOS, and finally Windows. Quest offers over 200 locations, a classic verb‑noun parser, and a humorous world of dragons, elves, insurance salesmen, and office in‑jokes.
The preserved Windows version is based on the 1990s Visual Basic port, reconstructed and rebuilt in VB6 to run on modern systems.
Over its lifetime, Quest has run on:
- ICL System 10
- ICL System 25
- ICL DRS 20
- CP/M
- DOS
- Windows (VB3)
- Windows (VB6 modern rebuild)
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Renga in Blue
Quest is a sprawling, chaotic text adventure written at ICL between 1980–83, packing over 200 locations filled with dragons, elves, office in‑jokes, machine rooms, jungles, and even a blue police box. Recently rediscovered after decades of obscurity, the surviving Windows VB3 port presents all room descriptions as single centered paragraphs, making object discovery unusually tricky. Despite the eccentric interface, the writing is vivid and enthusiastic, offering multiple distinct “adventures” depending on the direction you take from the starting cabin. A strange, energetic relic of early British mainframe IF.
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License: Freeware
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