Fairy Tale Adventure

[Mike_UK]

Hello All,
As some of you know I've just got my hands on a A1000 (taken me 20yrs lol to get one) :-D
Anyhow, one of the first games I ever played on my humble A500 was "The Fairy Tale Adventure"
Not haveing completed the game way back then I would love to endever on a quest to have another go!
The problem is not getting hold of the ADF image, but the first question the game asks for? :crazy:
If any Amiga game playing fans have played this in recent times and know of the nessary text to get me in, please post!
Although I have a fresh floppy made with the help of AmigaForever I would love to get the origional....yep I hear you say...like thats ever going to happen??? :lol:
Does anyone own the origional of this game?
It would be wonderfull to see pictures of the box and contents!
   

[Mike_UK]

Just been looking in the ADF Thanks to AmigaExplorer!

Look what I found hidden in there...

                        Scorn Murderous DEED
                        Summon The SIGHT
                        Wing Forth In FLIGHT
                        Hold Fast To Your CREED
                        From Illusion Be FREED
                        Defy Ye That BLIGHT
                        In Black Darker Than NIGHT
                        Need You Will More Than MIGHT
                        To Quest For The LIGHT
                        Make Haste But Take HEED

I hope this helps anyone else...

[mr_a500]

I have an original copy of Faery Tale. It was the first Amiga game I ever saw and the second game I bought after getting my Amiga (Beast was my first game). It took me about 2 weeks of constant playing to complete it. Man, that game is HUGE!

About the codes: I was going to suggest you use the WHDload install to remove the protection, but I guess that's not an option on your A1000. The answer to the first game prompt is easy because it is always asked: "Make haste, but take HEED".

Other questions (I've memorized them by now):

Scorn murderous DEED
Summon the SIGHT
Wing forth in FLIGHT
Hold fast to your CREED
From illusion be FREED (never asked)
Defy ye that BLIGHT
In black darker than NIGHT
Need You'll more than MIGHT (never asked - and looks backwards!)
To quest for the LIGHT

I'd take pictures of the box (actually more of a flat record-style thing), but I don't have a digital camera. I could use my DCTV, but the quality would be low.

It is unbelievable that this huge game was written by one programmer back in 1986. David Joiner did the graphics, programming, music and everything! I'd say it is the greatest game ever written by a single programmer.

[mr_a500]

Ah, damn it. You posted while I was typing - making my post useless. (..who will give me back those wasted minutes of my life....;-))

[marauderII]

I love That game. It had some great music too.
do a google search for the map. You will need it.
the game has a glitch sometimes if you press the space bar
before you take an item it will let you keep taking
the same item. you will need alot of bird totems
to find your way through Grim Woods.

[mr_a500]

Yeah, you definitely need those bird totems for the woods. I never had that "glitch" you mention - it sounds handy.

One of the funniest things in the game: sometimes when you kill all your attackers and walk away a bit and come back, one of the guys you thought you killed was just injured and he just stands in the corner and tries to avoid you. He has no weapon and doesn't attack. You can kill him again or try to talk to him or (if you're feeling really generous) you can give him gold then kill him. Strangely, you can't get your gold back from his dead body.

[Mike_UK]

MAP???

Looked on net , haveing trouble finding one! :-?

Do you have a scan of the map??

Please email it if possible..

Cheers Mike (Listening to that MAGICAL MUSIC..) :lol:  

[mr_a500]

I just found a map here:

http://eager.back2roots.org/CHEAT/f/faerta.htm

[koaftder]

The author (David Joyner) has a blog:

http://viridia.org/

He doesnt update often, but i check it out every once and a while, Faery Tale Adventure was pretty infulential to me. The a1000 and that game montivated me when i was a little kid to persue the career i'm in now ( sadly i'm not a game programmer though... But according to stuff this guy has wrote in the past about the industry, i'm glad )

[CodyJ]

This map may help: http://hol.abime.net/485/gamemap

[koaftder]

wow, looks like somebody got on the swan and did a lot of save/bird totem action.

Ive been working off and on on getting the tile data out of that game. Ive been able to read/modify the map. The DOS and amiga vesions are very similar. The dos version has a map file, and each byte represents each tile. (one char per title) Tiles are twice as tall as they are wide.

On the dos version, the tile graphic data is in one file per spite... Ive tried and tried to extract the graphics data, no luck. Couldnt figure out how to do it with the amiga disc either.

USE on linux lets you pop up a debugger, now if i can figure out what addresses to dump, i might get that raster data yet...

[mr_a500]

This map may help: http://hol.abime.net/485/gamemap

That image is the equivalent of something like 250 bird totems! The game would have been a hell of a lot easier for me to complete if I had something like that years ago. That's not fair.

Actually it's better not to see the whole "world" like that. Part of the fun of the game was exploring - not knowing what you'd find. (except the few occasions when you had a bird totem)

The image is huge - 2048x2048. I had to break it into 4 chunks of 1024x1024 and reduce it from 24bit to the original 32 colours just to be able to view it on my Amiga.

[Mike_UK]

HOL what a great site...even has Box and Disk Scans..COOL  :-D

Still working, need to take a days leave to begin my game!

Thanks to everyone who posted...I'll let you know when it's "Happy ever after"!!!!

[buzz]

If you want a really nice quality box scan you can find one here on my site:

http://exotica.fix.no/gallery/games/images/f/FaeryTaleAdventureThe.jpg

[Mike_UK]

Cheers..Cool site...and Nice Tatoo by the way.. :-o
Nice to know someone else into amiga's not to far from home!