"Graal Quest" (... a reverse request!)
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 11:58 am
Hello all,
Before getting my disk drive from a former Dragon32 owner (must have been back in 1986), I once got to see what he had, part of which has long been offered through the software archive.
But I remember getting to see a French, disk-based, role-playing game named "Graal Quest". At the moment, I cannot remember how many disks it has (might be just one, actually). This is part of the disks I had converted to ".vdk" files when I switched to PC emulation, several years ago.
Because I do believe this would be little use to most of you here (... i.e. being all in French!), I might try to translate it into English during my vacation (starting from mid-August). I'm not sure this will be very easy to achieve (I remember the game as having a lot of text), and I don't even know how good/lame it may be (because of never actually playing it myself).
Moreover, could anyone please remind me of an easy way to transfer Dragon Basic programs to - and back from - a PC as an ASCII file for an easier translation? If I am going to have to do this under the "XRoar" emulation, then it will most probably take forever, so I assume that being able to work from a PC text editor would be much, much easier...
In the meantime, I may offer to upload the ".vdk" I have, but be warned that it's most likely a "game in progress" disk rather than the standard brand new game image. Not sure this would be such a big deal, though, if the "game in progress" disk only has player status files as extra data - we'll have to try and check to find out!
Not sure either what was the software house behind this game. I suspect it could have been released by "Goal Computer", which was the official Dragon importer/dealer in Francer at the time: it was a small shop located in Paris, and they also released a PMode4 tennis game (that one should already be available in the archive).
Kind regards,
Lionel
Before getting my disk drive from a former Dragon32 owner (must have been back in 1986), I once got to see what he had, part of which has long been offered through the software archive.
But I remember getting to see a French, disk-based, role-playing game named "Graal Quest". At the moment, I cannot remember how many disks it has (might be just one, actually). This is part of the disks I had converted to ".vdk" files when I switched to PC emulation, several years ago.
Because I do believe this would be little use to most of you here (... i.e. being all in French!), I might try to translate it into English during my vacation (starting from mid-August). I'm not sure this will be very easy to achieve (I remember the game as having a lot of text), and I don't even know how good/lame it may be (because of never actually playing it myself).
Moreover, could anyone please remind me of an easy way to transfer Dragon Basic programs to - and back from - a PC as an ASCII file for an easier translation? If I am going to have to do this under the "XRoar" emulation, then it will most probably take forever, so I assume that being able to work from a PC text editor would be much, much easier...
In the meantime, I may offer to upload the ".vdk" I have, but be warned that it's most likely a "game in progress" disk rather than the standard brand new game image. Not sure this would be such a big deal, though, if the "game in progress" disk only has player status files as extra data - we'll have to try and check to find out!
Not sure either what was the software house behind this game. I suspect it could have been released by "Goal Computer", which was the official Dragon importer/dealer in Francer at the time: it was a small shop located in Paris, and they also released a PMode4 tennis game (that one should already be available in the archive).
Kind regards,
Lionel