Mystery Isles is a text adventure game written in PunyInform for the ParserComp 2024 itch.io jam.

You are stranded on a deserted island and must solve puzzles and figure out a way to escape.

You were looking forward to a quiet day fishing in your new fishing boat.

After a couple of hours catching nothing (and a few beers) you lay back for a rest and drift off to sleep ... You wake a few hours later and realise your anchor had disconnected from the chain and you have been drifting away, too.

If your system's game has a title screen you may have to hit SPACE or RETURN/ENTER to continue after it displays.

Commodore Plus4/64/128:

You can use the VICE emulator.

• Type LOAD"*",8,1
• When your Plus4/C64/128 has finished loading, type RUN

If you wish to play the game in 80 columns -- which is supported on C=128 -- type this in BASIC:

• 10 GRAPHIC 5
• RUN

In VICE 128 the game will be in the other window.

DOS:

You can use the DOSBOX emulator for this. Run PLAY.BAT to start the game.

Amstrad:

You can use the ZEsarUX emulator. Select Amstrad 6128, use Smart Attach to mount the cpc_pcw dsk file and use RUN"CPM".

8bit Ataris:

You can use the Altirra emulator. Select File > Attach Disk > Drive 1: and select the .atr file.

AtariST:

You can use the Hatari emulator. Press F12 to open the main menu screen, select Floppy disks and load your st file. Make sure you're in Medium Resolution and double-click on PLAY.PRG to start.

Mega65:

You can use the Xemu MEGA65 emulator. Mount the d81 file and use BOOT.

Apple II:

You can use the microM8 emulator. Make sure to select Apple //e Enhanced with Z80 Softcard. Load s1 dsk file into A: drive and s2 dsk file into B: drive. Run it with VEZZA B:STORY.DAT

Spectrum +3:

You can use the FUSE emulator. First, load the Spectrum CPM Plus disk then insert the game disk. To start the game, type PLAY.

Spectrum Next:

This has Z-machine support built-in. Just put the .z5 file on your SD card and load it from the Next file browser.

TRS80:

You can use the trs80gp emulator. Select Diskette > 0: > Insert Disk and select the trs80 dsk file. Reboot and it should load. You may need to enter a date like 04/24/85 and a time. Using the Model 4 machine, insert as above and use File > Reset Button.

Classic Macintosh:

You can use the Mini vMac emulator or another.

• Insert game disk
• Double click on the Moonmist Ent. disk image
• Double click on Interpreter
• Select -> File -> Import Z-Code file
• In the menu select -> Display -> All files
• Double click on the .story file
• You need at least MacOS 7.5 for playing this game

There is a readme.txt file in the Zip you download which has more details for these and other platforms.

Note: These files may work on actual hardware but I do not have them all to test.

You can play this game with Windows Frotz or another Windows interpreter, a MacOS interpreter, a Linux interpreter or other Inform6-compatible interpreter which can read z5 files.

You can also play this game online at our website: OzRealms.com

There is a PDF file called PlayIF.pdf which may help you if you are new to text adventure games.

We hope you enjoy playing our first adventure game.