Richard Garriot's Akalabeth

[rezo]

early game by Richard Garriot, of the Ultima fame. I don't know if this was his first one or what. anyways, it was done in basic, and you can check it out.

hmm. . .

http://emmi-welter-haus.de/blueqb/akalabeth.zip

credit to BlueSckr for the find.



I'll scavenge the code and see if I can figure out all of the commands.


"g" "e" "k" "d" <--- all appear to be the same command. to enter buildings and such. a building will probably be a square on the screen and a dungeon would be an X.

stores are a series of boxes in an X shape. and Lord British's . . .castle. . . is a large box with an X in the middle.


dungeons are fake 3D like the ones in Golgo13.

a- brings up attack menu. then you pick a weapon(by entering the first letter of the weapon's name) or just push enter to smash with fists.

[sleeve]

Yep, Alakabeth was his first game.

[NeoZeedeater]

I played it briefly via Apple II emulation.

You have to respect the first roleplaying game in video form.