Tony Blews

Part IV: Some Hope

A text adventure game for the
Amstrad CPC & PCW Computers

A long long time ago….
back in the mid eighties, long before Spaceballs appeared, I came upwith the idea of writing a text adventure game based loosely on the Star Wars films, Queen videos, tedious adverts and old computer jokes.The first version was written for the Sinclair Spectrum, using the Quill adventure creating package from Gilsoft. That was in 1984. By 1988 the project had moved to the Professional Adventure Writer package on the Amstrad CPC6128 and was eventually completed. By this time it included more awful jokes donated by Jason Denton, Brian Frost, David Oldcorn and a few others at WR Tuson College.

In 1989 I moved to Stafford to start university. I sold copies to other people who had been misguided enough to purchase Amstrads. Over FIVE copies of Star Bores were sold. I lost interest after then.

After sixteen years (and twenty eight years since the Star Wars films were made), I got hold of an Amstrad PCW and could read 3″ disks again. It was time to unleash it on the world again.

In 2006 I finally found a permanent resting place for this pile of crap.

Star Bores has the these amazing features:

• Rooms, Objects, Other characters,
• No graphics whatsoever,
• Jokes that were possibly funny about 20 years ago,
• No mention of the Crazy Frog,
• A plot that even a moron can follow.
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• The CPM 2.2 version (suitable for use with the 22nice CPM emulator) can be downloaded from here.
  The 22nice emulator can be obtained from somewhere on t’internet I assume.These people were involved the original in project: Tony Blews, Jason Denton, Brian Frost, David Oldcorn (of Starball Pinball fame), Mark Slater, Stephen Jewel, David Capstick, Darren Winterbottom, Steven Shaw, Anil Patel, Jawed Shamsuddin, Paul Webster.
  Any feedback on this thing should be sent to starbores@tonyblews.co.uk.