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As I was going through some of my cassettes, I found this golf game (viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5378)

That reminded me of a similar looking adventure/RPG game - top down 'graphical' using ^ for trees, and so on. Can anyone else remember it, or am I just imagining things?

I reckon you're either thinking of "Quest" (also in text mode), or "The Ring of Darkness" (graphical).

Could it be Lionheart?

Actually, I think I've found it - it was "The Valley"

https://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/fraser.char ... index.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/27 ... ey/?page=1
http://www.robsons.org.uk/archive/www.c ... valley.htm

<After reading the magazine article> - yep, I'm fairly sure it was - I remember the name "Y'Nagioth" (odd how memory works isn't it )

It was an absolutely awesome game (for the day) but, basically you needed to port it to your own system and type it in.

I've found a copy of it on a cassette here, but it errors out in XRoar. I'll have to try it on a real D32 to see if that works better.

If you cannot get it to load, please post the wav file and I'll attempt to recover it.

It seems to load OK, but I get a ?FC error when running it.

I must admit, I'm slightly puzzled. It's definitely the game I was thinking of, but I thought I remembered typing it in from the mag (after porting from PET Basic), but the one I've found has 2 BASIC sections, and 2 machine code sections - which isn't what I'd have done. So, I suspect I've found a "commercial" version of it, not the version I remember (maybe the version I have was for a Coco and is slightly incompatible). I'll have to investigate more.

(BTW, the links I posted above have BBC and Windows ports of the game. It was originally published in a mag as a game as a Pet version, but also as a teaching tool as it was designed to be ported and fiddled with. It was the first computer RPG I played (as we recognize computer RPGs nowadays))