Supernova

Player notes

About this game

Supernova begins in a tavern on Barre-An, a mining world whose dwindling riches offer little hope of a better life. The adventure unfolds through room descriptions and typed commands. You examine objects, talk to characters and follow clues rather than steering a character with the arrow keys.

Choose C for colour, continue through the title screens and enter a character name. Type commands in English and press Enter to submit them. LOOK or L repeats the room description; INVENTORY or I lists your possessions. Directions such as N, S, E and W move between locations. COMMANDS or VERBS lists recognised verbs, and CLUE requests a hint for the current location.

SAVE and RESTORE use the game's own disk-based saves. At the disk-drive prompt, press Enter to accept A:, then supply a short filename such as TEST. This browser package provides the original default save drive, so no disk swapping is needed. After making a native save, use the website's save control to retain the virtual-disk changes for a later visit. That is separate from saving the current screen or a live emulator snapshot.

This is Supernova Version B from Apogee's March 2009 freeware/source re-release; the original adventure dates to 1987. The complete original ZIP, publisher notes and historical source material are retained, while only the required game files are mounted for play. The later freeware notice explains the release terms and supersedes the old registration instructions. The entire adventure is in English, and a physical keyboard is recommended for its free-form commands.