The second game by the legendary Scott Adams, with considerably more thematic unity than his first. It involves a search for buried treasure, but the bulk of the game is spent building your ship. Two-word parser (except the Hugo port), minimal detail, some nice puzzles, a few misspellings, and a modicum of irony. One of Adams' more satisfying games.

Rating: ***

Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (30 Jun 2000)

trs.zip (429.95 KB)

TRS-80 executable (version: 4.08)

atari8gm.zip (790.45 KB)

Atari 800 executable

beebgames.zip (1.32 MB)

BBC executable

C64adv.zip (2.78 MB)

Commodore executable (ported by Jeff Jessee)

pirate.hex (52.65 KB)

Hugo executable (version: 1.1.0, ported by Julian Arnold, full-sentence parser)

pirate_src.zip (13.34 KB)

Hugo source code (version: Release 1.1.0, ported by Julian Arnold)

adaminte.zip (218.24 KB)

Spectrum executable

zx.zip (2.88 MB)

Spectrum executable

adamsinform.zip (206.57 KB)

Z-code 5 executable

AdamsGames.zip (104.69 KB)

ScottFree executable

AdamsHints.tar.Z (39.03 KB)

hint sheet

AdamsHints.zip (41.81 KB)

hint sheet

adamssol.zip (37.31 KB)

solution

jgunness.zip (159.04 KB)

walkthrough

SAhints.zip (32.95 KB)

hint sheet and map in GUEmap format

Sols2.zip (38.22 KB)

solution

Sols3.zip (172.32 KB)

solution