Press INFO for general instructions. After selecting which adventure you want to play, press CLUE for more specific hints. For example, press CLUE and type LAMP, then click on the numbers given in the response. If you're having difficulty getting started, press CLUE and type START.
The Level 9 games were broken during the transition to Scratch 3.0. You can still play the Scratch 2.0 versions using phosphorus. Post here for any problems or discussions relating to any of the Level 9 games - https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/375133 I've also put them into three compendiums rather than 15 separate adventures! This is a port (of 4000+ lines of C code) to Scratch of the Level 9 interpreter which allows the Level 9 games' data files (and graphics) to run on this platform. I've also added quite a few new features including faster graphics, Scratch optimisations and much more. Absolute credit to Level 9 for creating these wonderful text adventures in the 1980's and 1990's. Level 9 adventures featured enhanced vocabulary and parsing. They featured compression allowing a large number of rooms to exist in the limited memory available at the time of their original release. Uses a modified version of @-Rex-'s excellent PTE Ultra+ Text Engine. Level 9 interpreter for Scratch, revision 1.00 Derived from Level 9 interpreter version 5.1 * Copyright (c) 1996-2011 Glen Summers and contributors. * Contributions from David Kinder, Alan Staniforth, Simon Baldwin, * Dieter Baron and Andreas Scherrer. All work on the Scratch port and modifications by RokCoder, 2018 #text #graphics #adventures #games #retro #description(Jewels of Darkness, also known as the Middle-Earth Trilogy, is a trilogy of text adventure games by Level 9 originally released in 1983. I've brought these games over to Scratch with identical gameplay to the originals along with graphics, save games, a hint system and more.)
