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Windows PC Edition (2020)
Windows Application (Windows XP and later) (Compressed with RAR. Unpacking tools are available for most platforms - see Wikipedia for pointers.)
gfleece.zip *
Contains FLEECE.GAM
Requires a TADS interpreter. Visit IFWiki for download links.
GoldenFleece.dms
Amiga Application
fleece.zip *
MS-DOS Application
gfleece.sol
solution
* Compressed with ZIP. Free Unzip tools are available for most systems at www.info-zip.org.

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The Golden Fleece

by Jim MacBrayne

Cave crawl, Mythological
1989

About the Story

Originally published as a HiSoft BASIC game for Commodore Amiga in 1989.

The TADS port dates from 1995.

In 2020, the original author produced a new version for Windows PC using QBASIC64.


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SynTax
Jim has obviously been strongly influenced by Infocom when writing The Golden Fleece, relying on a good storyline and atmospheric descriptions, not to mention intricate puzzles! I would have preferred a few more easy puzzles dotted about the game to make me feel I was achieving more in the early stages, rather than spending a lot of time exploring and mapping but otherwise making little progress.
-- Sue
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SPAG
The Jim MacBrayne games
Not many of the puzzles break out of the apply-object-X-to-obstacle-Y feel, and many of those that do rely on trial and error and weird intuitive leaps. One puzzle in Golden Fleece, for example, involves what amounts to a giant see- saw, and requires lots of tedious object-moving to balance the seesaw properly [...]
-- Duncan Stevens
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