A downloadable game

Ultimate Nightmare is a smallish text adventure game I originally wrote back in 1992 on my Acorn Electron. My Amiga was undergoing repair and I need a programming fix, so out came my beloved Elk for some BBC BASIC programming.

I had intended to release the game to public domain but that didn't really happen at the time. In 2002 I converted to a uef file and hosted it on my website where it sat pretty much without any interest until EUG picked it up and hosted it a few years later.  I was not happy with the game I made in 1992 as I felt like it was in beta state. In 2020 I made a host of changes and am now pleased to release this much updated version.

Some of the changes made:

- Inclusion of a intro section containing backgroundand instructions.

- Graphical loading screen

- Improved load/save game error trapping

- Upper and lower case is now accepted

- Updated location description and character text

- More things can be EXAMined and explored

- Turn counter at the top of the screen

- Various typo/spelling errors corrected.

Update History
        v1.3 (2020) - Much updated 2020 release for BBC Micro / Electron
        v1.2 (2018) - Converted to BBC Basic for Windows/RISC (based on original 1992 version)
        (2002) - Converted to UEF         v1.0 - (1992) Initial release.

Requirements
v1.3 - BBC Micro (model B and Master tested); Acorn Electron or under emulation

Licence
Freeware

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ultimate_nightmare(v1.3.1).ssd (disk image) 200 kB
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ultimate_nightmare_2092.uef (Tape image) 26 kB
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Ultimate Nightmare Walk-through (spoiler alert!) 236 kB
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Ultimate Nightmare Map (spoiler alert!) 13 kB

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