About the archive named: AVLAND.SDK It's an Apple II DOS 3.3 - 5.25 self-booting disk. Use ShrinkIt (any version of ShrinkIt should unshrinkit back to a self-booting 5.25 disk) The 5.25 disk consist of the boot file, which is a binary file of the Adventureland game. There's also a sample saved game file you can load that's included on te disk. This a is one of the first text adventure games developed and released for the Apple II computer from Scott Adams. Program status; Shareware - with no restrictions or set shareware fee. On 5/27/98 I had a very nice telephone conversation with Scott Adams at his Avista office in Platteville, WI - USA, concerning his Apple II adventure games. He mentioned that he had received an email from Willie Yeo, who founded and host the Treasurechest project and website and replied to Willie Yeo thanking him for his Apple II software reclassification research project. Scott Adams made it clear that all of his Apple II software titles were now classified as shareware, (with no specific amount noted or time limits, restrictions, etc. for their use). So, you should send whatever you can for the shareware fee to: Scott Adams 845 Badland Road Platteville WI 53818-9760 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Willie Yeo discovered Scott Adams web site first and made that information known with the list of Apple II software titles by Scott Adams below, which Willie also researched, composed and posted to our Apple II Usenet newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1: Adventureland (Archived & uploaded on 5/31/98) 2: Pirate Adventure (aka Pirate's Cove) 3: Mission Impossible / Impossible Mission / Secret Mission 4: Voodoo Castle 5: The Count 6: Strange Odyssey 7: Mystery Fun House / Fun House Mystery 8: Pyramid of Doom 9: Ghost Town 10: Savage Island, part 1 11: Savage Island, part 2 12: Golden Voyage 13: Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle 14: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai 14: Return to Pirate's Island 1: The Hulk 2: Spiderman 3: Fantastic Four (Human Torch & The Thing) Scott Adams advised me that all of his Apple II games could be archived with ShrinkIt and uploaded as such to our Apple II ftp sites for distribution. I'll do my best to locate all of the Scott Adams - Apple II titles, archive them and upload them to Ground, as best my time and abilities allow. If any others have any of his Apple II programs and would care to archive and upload them to Ground, check to make sure they are not archived there yet. If they aren't, then please do upload any you may have. Pay a visit to Scott Adams website: http://www.pcii.net/~msadams/ His email address follows: msadams@bigfoot.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cheers, Charles T. 'Dr. Tom' Turley Email: cturley@grin.net WWW: http://www.grin.net/~cturley/