Searching for a game called... Dragonfire? Not the action one, an rpg one.

[bloomer_au <bloomer@iprimus.com.au>]

Last night I went looking through the index file of the Asimov archive
for an rpg/maze game I believe was called Dragonfire. I used to have a
(pirate) copy of this on a 5.25 floppy, but the disk rotted and I
threw it away in the days before I realised how easy it was to clean
these discs.

In the archive, the only game called Dragonfire was a 1985 action game
by Imagic which I've never previously played. So the possibilities are
-- I have the name wrong, or the game is in the archive  under some
corruption/alternate version of its name (I searched every incidence
of the word 'dragon'), or it is not in the archive at all.

In hopes that someone may recognise or have this game, I will describe
it here.

The game randomly creates a new dungeon when you begin to play. The
maze is presented as a lo-res graphic, your character a four pixel
square. You move around with the keyboard, entering on the right, and
every time you move through a door, the game cuts to the text screen,
where it describes the room you have entered, and where you will
usually fight some kind of monster. This was randomised rpg stat
combat. There weren't many options you could choose.

At the beginning of the game, you could choose a class. I have a
memory of the choices including hunter (huntress for a female
character) and wizard, or some kind of mage.

I forget how you move between levels, but I seem to recall every move
you made drains something… perhaps your stamina, perhaps food. And
running out of this resource was the main threat to your life, rather
than the combat.

In the copy of the game I had, I never won, because after a few levels
the game would crash and possibly reboot.

I have a feeling the game might have been written in Integer Basic,
though I can't remember exactly why.

Thoughts of wanting to play this game again (it was very addictive)
made me look for it in the archive, with the thought that maybe there
would be an un-damaged copy there --- assuming that the reason it
crashed was actually because it was corrupt. It's not impossible that
it was a game that only work properly on pre-IIGSes or something.

I am absolutely certain that the name began with Dragon, and pretty
sure about Fire or Maze (and that it was one word?), though I
investigated every Dragon title in the archive, and none of them was
this game.

Does anybody know what the game is? Better yet, does someone have a
copy?

Thanks

-Wade