Re: Level 9


Sat, 09 Dec 1995 13:53:53 +0100

David Kinder (kinder@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk) wrote:
> Level 9 don't reply to their old PO Box address, so I think it's
> not possible to contact them anymore. Does anyone know who owns
> the copyright on their games? Rainbird distributed some of the
> later ones, and they were bought by Microrprose, so they might be
> able to help. Some games (the earlier ones) are available from
> Spectrum sites so you could run them on a Spectrum emulator.

Level 9 shut down in 1989 I think. My BBC copy of "Lancelot" claims to be
marketed by Mandarin Software. I don't have a phone number, and the game is
dated 1988, so they're probable closed down too by now 8( but the address is:

Mandarin Software
Europa House
Adlington Park
Adlington
Macclesfield
SK10 4NP

> There's no interpreter I know of. Does anyone have *any* information
> about the format?

Nothing useful. I believe the compiler was called CHAOS and was never made
publicly available. The parser was the most advanced one ever for the BBC
and had useful commands like UNDO, AGAIN, GO TO <location>, EXITS (lists
visible exits from current location), and graphics support was available if
you had enough RAM.

BTW, does anyone know who eventually found the £5000 Holy Grail? Now there's
someone who made money from IF... by playing it!

-- 
Jools Arnold                                          jools@arnod.demon.co.uk