Re: What game is this?

[boozer@cco.caltech.edu (David Boozer)]

In article <396AFDE1.5878F89D@swbell.net>,
Rubywand  <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
>David Boozer writes ...
>> 
>> I'm looking for a game for the Apple II.  I don't recall much about it,
>> but I know:
>> 
>> It was a graphical adventure game, similar to an Infocom game but with
>> bitmapped graphics
>> 
>> In the beginning of the game you were wandering around in a desert,
>> perhaps on anothe planet.  Eventually you found a phone booth.  There was
>> some writing which said "if you're in a fix, try calling MIX" (you were
>> supposed to interpert MIX as a phone number written in Roman numerals)
>> 
>> There was a puzzle which involved obtaining a certain quantitiy of fluid
>> by pouring the fluid from one to another of a collection of different
>> sized beakers.  I think the fluid was some sort of medicine or antidote.
>> 
>> It was published before 1988
>> 
>> The title *might* have included the words "omega" or "lab" (not sure about
>> this one)
>> 
>> There was a similar game, made by the same company, on which you were
>> straned on a desert island.
>> 
>> In this other game, there was a puzzle of farmer, cabbage, goat, wolf
>> genre (farmer wants to get all three across a river in a boat that can
>> only cary the farmer plus one other thing, goat will eat cabbage and wolf
>> will eat goat if farmer is not present, etc), only a rickety bridge played
>> the role of the river and geometric solids played the role of the cabbage,
>> goat, and wolf
>> 
>> At the end of this other game, I *think* you escaped from the island in a
>> baloon.
>> 
>> Ok, that's about all I remember.  I know it's not much to go on, and is a
>> rather strange request, but I'd be very grateful if anyone could help ID
>> this game, or at least has some suggestions of how I could go about
>> finding it
>> 
>
>
>     Do not recognize either game. The first one sounds like it could involve
>time travel. One large Picture-Text adventure I never got into is "Time
>Zone". Maybe that's the game.
>
>     There are a bunch of game players on comp.emulators.apple2 (so this is
>being cross-posted).  Someone there may recognize one or both of the
>adventures you're looking for. 
>
>
>> (maybe there's a comprehensive list of Apple II adventure games
>> somewhere)?
> ....
>
>     Try The Giant List at http://www.dadgum.com/giantlist/list.html . It has
>many titles plus author, date, and publisher info which may help.
>
>     For lots of adventure titles listed in one place, see Asimov-Georgia's
>folders:
>
>ftp://mirror.apple.asimov.net/images/games/adventure/
>ftp://mirror.apple.asimov.net/images/games/rpg/

Thanks for the suggestions; I managed to track down the second of the
games I mentioned.  It's called "Islands of Beta", and was published by
Milliken Publishing Co. in 1984.  I searched around on the web & found out
that they also published a game called "Alpha Adventure" in 1986, which I
think might be the first game I was looking for.  Does anyone know where I
could get a disk image (couldn't find it on asimov).  Thanks again,

- Dave