Adventure F - The Eye of Bain
This was a collaboration between myself as programmer, Ken Gosling - who supplied the story but whom I never met - and two graphic artists at Artic Computing responsible for drawing the pictures and translating them into instructions for a specially written display engine.
I am still proud of the programming in this game; it had full-screen location graphics akin to those of The Hobbit and featured proportionally spaced text - to my knowledge a first for a Spectrum adventure. It took a lot longer than the two weeks that The Golden Apple had taken and squeezed pretty much every last byte of the 48K available. I can still remember the headache that I had trying to devise an efficient - but acceptably fast - flood fill routine.
As you will be able to tell I did the graphics for the loading screen myself. The in-game location graphics were done by professionals.
Text from the back of the cassette inlay:
This exciting adventure is based on the greatest treasure of the God, Bain. Can you overcome the difficulties to find and keep the priceless emerald jewel. Eye of Bain has brilliant multi-screen graphics.
Download
Emulator file in ZX Spectrum '.Z80' format: BAIN.Z80
To run the software I recommend
Spectaculator by Jonathan
Needle.
Map
Click here for a map created by Zeljko Juric, courtesy of Jacob Gunness at the The Classic Adventures Solution Archive.
Walkthrough
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[ENTER] |
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[ENTER] |
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LIFT POLE GET POLE GET DAGGER GET NET GO HOLE |
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EAST |
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THROW NET EXAMINE HIVE GET HONEY WEST |
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SOUTH |
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EAST |
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GET STONE BREAK CHAIN DROP STONE WEST |
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FREE MAN GET POST SOUTH |
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WEST |
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JUMP RAVINE |
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ENTER HUT |
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GET AXE EAST |
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JUMP RAVINE |
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EAST |
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CUT UNDERGROWTH DROP AXE DROP POST DROP POLE GET BUCKET NORTH |
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WEST |
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FILL BUCKET WEST |
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WEST |
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DRINK WEST |
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SOUTH |
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FILL BUCKET GET SHOVEL NORTH |
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EAST |
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DRINK EAST |
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EAST |
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FILL BUCKET WEST |
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NORTH |
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DRINK NORTH |
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NORTH |
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NORTH |
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FILL BUCKET CLIMB TREE |
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GET BANANAS DOWN |
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GO TENT |
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THROW DAGGER EXAMINE GIRLS GET RUBY EXAMINE RUBY EXAMINE TAPESTRY GO HOLE |
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DIG DROP SHOVEL GET WORMS GO CAVE |
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GIVE HONEY GO TUNNEL |
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THROW WORMS EXAMINE NEST GET CROSS NORTH |
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EAST |
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EAST |
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GET SCIMITAR GET JAR SOUTH |
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SOUTH |
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SOUTH |
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DRINK SOUTH |
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SOUTH |
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EAST |
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FILL BUCKET WEST |
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WEST |
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DRINK WEST |
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SOUTH |
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FILL BUCKET SOUTH |
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KILL PIRATE EXAMINE PIRATE DROP SCIMITAR GET HOOK NORTH |
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NORTH |
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EAST |
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DRINK EAST |
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EAST |
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EAST |
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SOUTH |
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GO WELL |
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SAY FIRE GO HOLE |
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EXAMINE BONES DROP RUBY GET KEY NORTH |
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UP |
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WEST |
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CLIMB TREE |
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GIVE BANANAS DOWN |
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EAST |
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DROP BUCKET GET POLE GO PATH |
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EAST |
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UNLOCK DOOR GO DOOR |
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DOWN |
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OIL LEVER PULL LEVER SHOW CROSS EXAMINE COFFIN DROP CROSS GET BLADE UP |
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UP |
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DROP POLE EXAMINE ALTAR GET HILT UP |
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MAKE SWORD GET TORCH GO WINDOW |
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TIE VINE TO GARGOYLE CLIMB VINE |
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WEST |
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WEST |
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NORTH |
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EAST |
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CLIMB SLOPE |
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LIGHT WOOD DOWN |
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WEST |
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NORTH |
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GO HUT |
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GO DOOR |
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GO TEMPLE |
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KILL SERPENT CLIMB IDOL |
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DROP SWORD GET EMERALD EXAMINE HEAD PULL LEVER DOWN |
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GO PASSAGE |
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EAST |
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GO BOAT |
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You have won! |