Re: "Valley of the Minotaur"

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

Jake_Feathers...@comcast.net wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any idea where I might acquire a disk image of the
> 1983 Apple ][-series text adventure (preferably in format .DSK) known
> as "The Valley of the Minotaur?"  I know that's probably a very tall
> order, but I was always intrigued by this Zork rip-off back in the
> 1980s, and I would love to play it again sometime.  I managed to solve
> it just once, and I think that was due at least partially to a bug in
> the game (although I'm not sure - it was kind of a weird game, and may
> not have been buggy at all), but would love to try to do so again.
>
> I originally purchased it for $24.95 (don't ask how I still remember
> the price; I just do) at a computer store in Cupertino, California,
> back in January of 1984 (the same day I bought my Franklin Ace 1000).
> It came on a 5.25" floppy drive (naturally), and was published by
> Softalk magazine.  I believe the author won a contest sponsored by
> Softalk, and his award was to have his game commercially published, if
> I'm not mistaken.

I don't have an image and don't know where to get one but the
webseite "Adventureland" by Hans Persson confirms Softalk as
the publisher and has some info about it:
http://www.lysator.liu.se/adventure/Softalk_Magazine.html

bye
Marcus