Serious / Tape / Disk / Cartridge Utility · 1985

Sherlock 1050

Published by Antic Software · Developed by 4th Works (The)

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Information

Genre: Tape / Disk / Cartridge Utility
Language: Compiled FORTH
Controls: Keyboard
Players: -
Programmer(s): Moore, Daniel L., Ahlstrom, Steve
Graphic Artist(s): [n/a]
Sound: [n/a]
Cover Artist(s): [n/a]
Year: 1985
Publisher: Antic Software
Developer: 4th Works (The)
Country: USA
License: Commercial
Medium: Disk
Rarity: 8
Serial: AP155

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 7.0/10 · Votes: 1 · Downloads: 1,556 · Hits: 6,410

Additional Comments

Updated on January 17th, 2025 with the following changes:
_ page now has complete information
_ program now available in .atx format
_ added missing second side of disk
_ better screenshots

Version 1.2.

First released as Sherlock.

Screenshots (4)

Comments (5)

Smaku — 19 Aug 2019
It was very useful tool to play adventure text-graph games. If there was some real problem getting too much time to solve some riddle, or to find a proper word, or action, etc. - it was enough to check disk containing a game with this program Sherlock to be ready for further journey. Great tool, very useful it was, I remember. I was changing many demos and programs, games, etc. - using this Sherlock. Wherever I saw some readable text, I was changing to my own characters and texts directly on the disk, then admiring my genial job as a pirate. Actually on the PC computers it's easier. It's enough to change whatever in files just using Notepad, or no matter of what kind the simplest text editors. Obvious.
Dan — 11 Jun 2018
Steve's memory is a bit off. Sherlock was QS-Forth. SynFile+ is Pink Noise Studios Forth. PNS was available with full source which we needed for SynFile+.
Steve Ahlstrom — 12 Aug 2016
The program was written in Pink Noise Forth
gLib — 4 May 2016
Forth, it is. String "QS-FORTH 1.0" in program. When you see machine language text in program like LDA JSR etc remember what this prog does, it has a disassembler. Older version needing basic? was an emulator bug sorry.
gLib — 30 Apr 2016
I'm sure this was compiled basic not machine language, older versions required the basic cart and tho this one doesnt, it runs like the same slow speed. Uses 24K of code to do what could've been done in 5K machine language.