Mindwheel walkthrough/longplay (Apple II - Synapse/Broderbund)

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Published on July 24, 2015 4:54:11 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODKy8-c-If8

Game:

Mindwheel (1984)

Category:

Walkthrough

Duration: 25:35

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Mindwheel (http://www.mobygames.com/game/apple2/mindwheel) was a text adventure game created by Synapse software and published by Broderbund in 1984 for the Apple ][. The player needs to find the wheel of wisdom by looking for clues in the mind of four dead people.

The game is powered by Synapse's BTZ (Better than Zork) engine, which has a concept of time, with characters entering and leaving the scene as time goes by. You can use "TIME FASTER" and "TIME SLOWER" to change the pace of the game and enter "..." to see events unfold over several time intervals.

Hope you enjoy the walkthrough!

The long play is done by Smartadventurer, a program that I wrote to automate the playing for vintage Apple ][ games. You can follow the project here: https://vinniethelung.wordpress.com/tag/smartadventurer/

Credits:
Cover art - www.mobygames.com
Walkthrough - www.solutionarchive.com and The Book of Adventure Games II (Kim Schuette)