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   software_name  = ScottFree|
   software_name  = ScottFree|
   software_image  = |
   software_image  = |
   developer      = [[Alan Cox]]|
   developer      = [[Scott Adams]] (original)<br />[[Alan Cox]] (ScottFree re-implementation)|
   publisher      = https://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/scott-adams/interpreters/scottfree/|
   publisher      = https://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/scott-adams/interpreters/scottfree/|
   systems        = [[C]], cross-platform|
   systems        = Various|
   release        = 1993|
   release        = 1978-1985 (original games)<br />1993 (ScottFree)|
   added_to_museum = September 8, 2019|
   added_to_museum = Not yet|
}}
}}
ScottFree is an interpreter for [[interactive fiction]] games in the [[Scott Adams]] format.
'''ScottFree''' is a re-implementation of the scripting language and [[video game]] engine created by [[Scott Adams]] for the [[Adventure International]] [[text adventure game]]s.


It was initially created in [[1993]] by Alan Cox.
ScottFree is a portmanteau of Scott and [[freeware]] as well as a pun on the slang "scott free", or getting away with something without consequences.


==Supported games==
==Other implementations==
Supported games include the [[TRS-80]] versions of the [[Adventure International]] [[video games]] and the [[Mysterious Adventures|''Mysterious Adventures'' series]] by [[Digital Fantasia]].
An engine to play Scott Adams games was added to [[ScummVM]], on December 9, [[2018]], that is based on ScottFree.


==Implementations==
==Games supported by ScottFree==
An engine to play Scott Adams games was added to [[ScummVM]], on December 9, [[2018]], that is based on ScottFree.
Supported games include the [[TRS-80]] versions of the [[Adventure International]] [[video games]], the [[Mysterious Adventures|''Mysterious Adventures'' series]] by [[Digital Fantasia]], and other games created in the ScottFree format.
 
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
!| Name
!| Developer
!| Released
!| Notes
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 1: Adventureland]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Adventure International]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1978
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 2: Pirate Adventure]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Adventure International]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1979
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 3: Secret Mission]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Adventure International]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1979
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 4: Voodoo Castle]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Adventure International]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1979
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 5: The Count]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Adventure International]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1979
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 6: Strange Odyssey]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Adventure International]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1979
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 7: Mystery Fun House]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Adventure International]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1979
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 8: Pyramid of Doom]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Adventure International]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1979
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 0: Mini Adventure Sampler]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Adventure International]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1980
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Marooned]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Kim Watt]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1980
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 9: Ghost Town]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Adventure International]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1980
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 10: Savage Island - Part I]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Adventure International]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1980
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Burglar's Adventure]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Bruce Hansen]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1981
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[James Bond Adventure]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Bruce Hansen]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1981
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Miner's Adventure]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Bruce Hansen]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1981
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 11: Savage Island - Part II]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Adventure International]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1981
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 12: The Golden Voyage]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Adventure International]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1981
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Mysterious Adventures 1: The Golden Baton]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Digital Fantasia]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1981
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Mysterious Adventures 2: The Time Machine]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Digital Fantasia]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1981
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Mysterious Adventures 3: Arrow of Death - Part 1]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Digital Fantasia]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1981
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Mysterious Adventures 4: Arrow of Death - Part 2]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Digital Fantasia]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1982
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Mysterious Adventures 5: Escape from Pulsar 7]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Digital Fantasia]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1982
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Mysterious Adventures 6: Circus]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Digital Fantasia]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1982
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Mysterious Adventures 7: Feasibility Experiment]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Digital Fantasia]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1982
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 13: Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Adventure International]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1982
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Mysterious Adventures 8: The Wizard of Akryz]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Digital Fantasia]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1983
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Mysterious Adventures 9: Perseus and Andromeda]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Digital Fantasia]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1983
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Mysterious Adventures 10: Ten Little Indians]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Digital Fantasia]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1983
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Mysterious Adventures 11: Waxworks]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Digital Fantasia]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1983
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 14: Return to Pirate's Isle]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Adventure International]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1983
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (video game)|The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Adventure International]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1984
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Mega-Venture I: Romulan Adventure]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Jim Veneskey]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1984
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Mega-Venture II: Top Secret Adventure]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Jim Veneskey]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1984
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Mega-Venture III: Gamma World]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Jim Veneskey]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1984
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Questprobe: Featuring the Hulk]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Adventure International]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1984
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Questprobe: Featuring Spider-Man]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Adventure International]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1984
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Questprobe: Featuring the Human Torch and the Thing]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Adventure International]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1985
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Cloak of Darkness]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Roger Firth]]<br />[[Campbell Wild]]<br />[[Sam Trenholme]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1999
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Desert Adventure]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Sam Trenholme]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2007
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|-
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | ''[[Undersea Conquest Part I]]''
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Marc Mandel]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2018
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" |
|}


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Latest revision as of 08:43, 2 August 2024

ScottFree
Developer Scott Adams (original)
Alan Cox (ScottFree re-implementation)
Publisher https://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/scott-adams/interpreters/scottfree/
Platforms Various
Released 1978-1985 (original games)
1993 (ScottFree)
Added to
Museum
Not yet

ScottFree is a re-implementation of the scripting language and video game engine created by Scott Adams for the Adventure International text adventure games.

ScottFree is a portmanteau of Scott and freeware as well as a pun on the slang "scott free", or getting away with something without consequences.

Other implementations

An engine to play Scott Adams games was added to ScummVM, on December 9, 2018, that is based on ScottFree.

Games supported by ScottFree

Supported games include the TRS-80 versions of the Adventure International video games, the Mysterious Adventures series by Digital Fantasia, and other games created in the ScottFree format.

Name Developer Released Notes
Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 1: Adventureland Adventure International 1978
Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 2: Pirate Adventure Adventure International 1979
Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 3: Secret Mission Adventure International 1979
Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 4: Voodoo Castle Adventure International 1979
Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 5: The Count Adventure International 1979
Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 6: Strange Odyssey Adventure International 1979
Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 7: Mystery Fun House Adventure International 1979
Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 8: Pyramid of Doom Adventure International 1979
Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 0: Mini Adventure Sampler Adventure International 1980
Marooned Kim Watt 1980
Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 9: Ghost Town Adventure International 1980
Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 10: Savage Island - Part I Adventure International 1980
Burglar's Adventure Bruce Hansen 1981
James Bond Adventure Bruce Hansen 1981
Miner's Adventure Bruce Hansen 1981
Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 11: Savage Island - Part II Adventure International 1981
Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 12: The Golden Voyage Adventure International 1981
Mysterious Adventures 1: The Golden Baton Digital Fantasia 1981
Mysterious Adventures 2: The Time Machine Digital Fantasia 1981
Mysterious Adventures 3: Arrow of Death - Part 1 Digital Fantasia 1981
Mysterious Adventures 4: Arrow of Death - Part 2 Digital Fantasia 1982
Mysterious Adventures 5: Escape from Pulsar 7 Digital Fantasia 1982
Mysterious Adventures 6: Circus Digital Fantasia 1982
Mysterious Adventures 7: Feasibility Experiment Digital Fantasia 1982
Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 13: Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle Adventure International 1982
Mysterious Adventures 8: The Wizard of Akryz Digital Fantasia 1983
Mysterious Adventures 9: Perseus and Andromeda Digital Fantasia 1983
Mysterious Adventures 10: Ten Little Indians Digital Fantasia 1983
Mysterious Adventures 11: Waxworks Digital Fantasia 1983
Scott Adams Graphic Adventure 14: Return to Pirate's Isle Adventure International 1983
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Adventure International 1984
Mega-Venture I: Romulan Adventure Jim Veneskey 1984
Mega-Venture II: Top Secret Adventure Jim Veneskey 1984
Mega-Venture III: Gamma World Jim Veneskey 1984
Questprobe: Featuring the Hulk Adventure International 1984
Questprobe: Featuring Spider-Man Adventure International 1984
Questprobe: Featuring the Human Torch and the Thing Adventure International 1985
Cloak of Darkness Roger Firth
Campbell Wild
Sam Trenholme
1999
Desert Adventure Sam Trenholme 2007
Undersea Conquest Part I Marc Mandel 2018