Pirate Adventure for BBC Micro
BBC Micro
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Show Controller & SystemClick on play BBC Micro game now button first to start the computer, the game then loads from disc by itself. The game is played on the keyboard, the keys sit where they were on the BBC Micro: Enter is RETURN, the cursor keys are the arrows.
Manuals, maps & hints 3
Original manuals, maps, hints and other materials for Pirate Adventure, on OldGames.sk:
Pirate Adventure
Online version of Pirate Adventure for BBC Micro. A 1979 text adventure by Scott and Alexis Adams, the second game of the Adventure International series. A spell carries the player from a flat in London to a pirate island, where a drunken pirate and his parrot keep company while a ship is built to reach Treasure Island and Long John Silver's 2 lost treasures. Commands have 2 words, a verb and a noun. Written in BASIC for the TRS-80, it spread over a few years to almost every home computer...
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Acorn BBC Micro
Online emulated version of Pirate Adventure was originally developed for the BBC Micro,
the BBC Microcomputer built by Acorn Computers for the BBC Computer Literacy Project and released in December 1981. Most British schools had one,
and its games and educational software shaped a generation of programmers, among them the authors of Elite.
The Model B uses a MOS 6502A processor at 2 MHz with 32 KB of RAM, the later B+ and Master 128 have 64 and 128 KB.
It has eight screen modes up to 640 by 256 pixels, a teletext mode 7 that fits a whole screen into one kilobyte,
a Texas Instruments SN76489 sound chip with three voices and noise, and a fast BBC BASIC with a built in assembler.
Games came on cassettes and 5.25" floppy discs for the Acorn DFS.