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Deep Space Drifter

DOS - 1990
Also available on: Atari ST

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Eminor 08 Dec. 2022

I have a sweet spot for text based adventures. This one is sci-fi, so that's 2 sweet spots! I'm loving it.

Following is a link to get to know the commands and some examples:
http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-deep-space-drifter_32290.html

"Some examples of commands that the game recognizes are shown below. These
aren't necessarily commands that you'll ever type while playing DSD, but
they illustrate some of the verbs and sentence formats that you may use.

GO NORTH
NORTH
N
UP
TAKE THE BOX
PUT THE FLOPPY DISK INTO THE BOX
CLOSE BOX
LOOK AT DISK
TAKE DISK OUT OF BOX
LOOK IN BOX
WEAR THE CONICAL HAT
TAKE OFF HAT
CLOSE BOX
TURN ON THE LANTERN
LIGHT MATCH
LIGHT CANDLE WITH MATCH
RING BELL
POUR WATER INTO BUCKET
PUSH BUTTON
TURN KNOB
EAT COOKIE
DRINK MILK
THROW KNIFE AT THIEF
KILL TROLL WITH SWORD
READ NEWSPAPER
LOOK THROUGH WINDOW
UNLOCK DOOR WITH KEY
TIE THE ROPE TO THE HOOK
CLIMB UP THE LADDER
TURN THE KNOB
JUMP
TYPE "HELLO" ON THE KEYBOARD
TYPE 1234 ON THE KEYPAD
GET IN THE CAR
GET OUT OF THE CAR
GET ON THE HORSE
GIVE WAND TO WIZARD
ASK WIZARD ABOUT WAND"

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Downloads

DOS version
Shareware
United Kingdom English
128 KB
Atari ST version
Game file
United Kingdom English
125 KB

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