RWAP Adventures is a division of RWAP Software, which has been in existence since 1987. We began by reviewing adventure games for the QL Adventurer's Forum (a magazine published for the Sinclair QL by Richard Alexander of CGH Services).  We found that many of these early adventures contained bugs and would often become unpaid beta testers, reporting to the adventure authors with lists of bugs and often suggestions of how to rectify them.

Although many of these early adventures are no longer available, we have tried to gather these together and make them available.  We have also taken on the maintenance of several commercial adventure programs, originally published by Talent Computer Systems of Glasgow, Oliver Neef, BugByte and Martin Hopkins.

As well as now being able to purchase and download Sinclair QL Adventures again, we have also converted some to run under Windows, using one of the many Sinclair QL emulators available as a runtime engine.

One of the greatest escapism programs ever conceived was the adventure program, where you could enter a whole new computer generated world and control a hero to overcome various difficult, thought provoking obstacles in order to achieve a specific goal.  Many different adventures have been written for the Sinclair QL over the years, but they have become increasingly harder to find.

The early adventure programs were mainly text adventures (now more commonly known as Interactive Fiction) where the words have to describe the world to you, as seen through the eyes of your character, but also some adventures encompass pictures of each location. Control of characters is generally simple, with two word phrases such as OPEN DOOR or NORTH to act as commands, but some adventures allow for much longer phrases such as OPEN DOOR AND THEN GO NORTH.

The adventure game which has been heralded as the mother of adventure games was known as Colossal Cave and written by Crowther and Woods in the 1970s. Various remakes of this adventure have been made for probably every computer that has since existed. Since that time, things have moved on apace, and although many recent adventures incorporate slick graphics, there is still a strong hard-core of Interactive Fiction fans.

RWAP Adventures has managed to re-release various adventure games, all (except for Oliver Neef's Return to Eden - not the Level 9 Game !!) previously distributed by Talent+ software, who have since moved onto other projects. They have been updated to ensure that they work on modern operating systems and converted to disk operation, but otherwise have retained the humour and atmosphere which was originally created for them. We are also now converting these early games to run under Windows, because Talent Computer Systems released some of them for other computers, such as the Commodore 64, Electron, BBC Micro and the Atari ST.

A wide range of Public Domain adventures are also available for the Sinclair QL. Please feel free to download them (or we can supply them on disk if preferred) from our Public Domain library. You might also like to see if there is any second hand adventures which may interest you. Another option, would be to download one of the excellent ZX Spectrum emulators for the Sinclair QL and use it to run the wide range of adventures which were produced for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

Syntax is a bi-monthly magazine for adventure enthusiasts.