This week I got a surprise letter from a gentleman named Jeff Walker who remembers playing the adventure game called PITS on The Source back in the early 1980’s.
For those who don’t know, I’m offering a cash reward for information and source code to the PITS. That’s right, if you can Google and find it, even in some public area, and it’s the game I remember playing, you’ll get a hunk’o’cash.
Jeff helped me recall some more details, and he got me in contact with Tom Walker who had far more information on The Source than I had before.
He then got me in contact with a guy named Fritz Thane who believes PITS was actually constructed using the old ADV550 engine. I’m thinking a good lead at this point is the A-Code adventure writing system.
Looks like I’m now researching generic game engines for adventure systems.