A few words about the files contained in this archive: I recovered this trilogy of games from some old floppies that I had from when I was a kid. I haven't been able to find any mention of them on anywhere on the Internet, with the exception of a reply from the original author to a message I posted to Usenet several years ago (included below; note that I removed some text because it's copied from the README file included with the game). So, I've decided to take it upon myself to repackage the games and try to find them a home on the Internet for anyone who might be interested. If you've heard of or played these games before, or if you discover a solution for any of them, please contact me! (I was never able to get far in them as a kid, but I was never really good at beating text adventure/interactive fiction games without walkthroughs) I decided to repackage the games in a single ZIP file for convenience because they were originally compressed as LZH files that were so old that modern Windows-based archiving utilities couldn't decompress them (they'd claim that some of the files were corrupt), and I had to track down a DOS-based LZH/LHA utility (LHA version 2.55) to unpack them. Although it should be obvious which files belong to which games, I've included a listing of the original archive contents in files.txt in case anyone needs that information. Enjoy! - Ben Shadwick benshadwick(A@T)icqmail(D.T)com (spam-proofed) My Usenet post and the author's reply follow: Ben Shadwick Nov 19 2001, 7:41 pm hide options Newsgroups: rec.games.int-fiction From: benshadw...@icqmail.com (Ben Shadwick) - Find messages by this author Date: 19 Nov 2001 19:41:50 -0800 Local: Mon, Nov 19 2001 7:41 pm Subject: [Re-Post] Looking for info on "Daemon Quest" series Reply | Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse Back in the days of 286's and 5 1/4" floppy disks, I acquired the first 3 MS-DOS text-adventures in what was supposed to be a five-part series titled "Daemon Quest" (the subtitles of the first 3 games, in order, are "The Legend of the Door", "In To the Lion's Den", and "The Road to High Tsani". I still have these 3 games (in fact, if you are intersted in playing them or adding them to an archive, please email me for info), and I've been looking (quite unsuccessfully) ever since for info on the series (such as whether or not the last two games in the supposed five-part series were ever created) and its author, Steve Blanding. On a side note, the author seems to have wrote his own interpreter thing called the "Adventure Development System" (ADS for short) - this system is used by all of the games, and was obviously improved as Mr. Blanding created each new game (the first game uses version "1.6" and the second and third use "2.4". Pasted below is the "about" section from the README for the first game. It explains, among other things, that Daemon Quest was originally a commercial, graphical Apple II game, but was reborn as a text-only, shareware MS-DOS game. [REMOVED TO SAVE SPACE - SEE INCLUDED README FILE] If you have any info on these games, I'd be _very_ interested to hear it! Thanks, Ben Shadwick benshadwickATicqmailDOTcom Reply Steve Blanding Nov 19 2001, 11:20 pm hide options Newsgroups: rec.games.int-fiction From: "Steve Blanding" - Find messages by this author Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 07:20:28 GMT Local: Mon, Nov 19 2001 11:20 pm Subject: Re: [Re-Post] Looking for info on "Daemon Quest" series Reply | Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse Someone forwarded this post to one of my email accounts and I was quite plesaed and surprised to get it! Yes. That was me. I haven't heard from anyone who has played those in years. I only ever got around to writing the first three games. By then I had graduated from college and started working professionally. Continuing to work on those games would have been a conflict of interest. In any case, I never really got enough feedback from those to feel that it was worth my time to continue. Kind of sad because I'd like to have known how they ended. :) You know, I can only barely even remember the story any more. By the way. If anyone should have a copy of the original Apple II version I'd REALLY love to hear that. And what would REALLY make my day would be if someone has a copy that will run on one of the many Apple II emulators! (Yes, you have my permission to do that, provided you send me a copy. *grin* After all, there's no way I'm going to be making any money off that title any more.) Steve Blanding