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Contains bas2inf​/sunburst.bas
This is actually the tool bas2inf that was used to convert Sunburst Contamination from C64 Basic to Inform 6, but the source code for the game is also available in this archive.
(Compressed with ZIP. Free Unzip tools are available for most systems at www.info-zip.org.)

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Sunburst Contamination

by Johan Berntsson and Fredrik Ramsberg profile

1988
Science Fiction
Inform 6

About the Story

You are George Raft, an employee at a small space trading company on earth. You have borrowed a small trading space craft to visit your girlfriend on Geeron in the Geisti system. The weekend has now come to an end, and it's time for you to get back to earth again.

Sunburst Contamination was intentionally designed to resemble an old Scott Adams text adventure with its limited parsing capabilities.

Page Update History

  v.7: 02-Mar-2024 20:06 - JTN (Current Version) - Edit Page - Normal View
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v.6: 02-Mar-2024 20:04 - JTN
Changed description
v.5: 17-Feb-2024 16:31 - JTN
Changed download links
v.4: 02-Aug-2009 14:48 - Fredrik Ramsberg
Changed download links
v.3: 18-Apr-2008 14:13 - Fredrik Ramsberg
Changed external review links
v.2: 26-Oct-2007 07:51 - Fredrik Ramsberg
Changed author, download links
v.1: 26-Oct-2007 07:49 - Fredrik Ramsberg
Created page

1 Off-Site Review

SPAG
Primitive but funny, and with fairly challenging and interesting puzzles
I'd say Sunburst Contamination isn't a game for everyone. It also doesn't fit into the procrustean bed of the SPAG scoreboard format; if the latter was applied to it, it probably would receive a much lower rating than I believe it deserves. Thus, let's just say -- if it participated in the IF-Comp, I'd rate Sunburst Contamination at least a six; its spoofing value probably is even higher.
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