Search for the Sacred Stone
About this game
This ABOUT description was copied from the Internet Archive's copy of the original homepage at jesustaxi.com/mikel/stone.html
Search for the Sacred Stone is an "old school" text adventure for the Microsoft Windows® operating systems. Originally written on an IBM Mainframe, this PC remake has been overhauled to include more locations, more puzzles and a new sentence parser. Search for the Sacred Stone features puzzles of easy to moderate difficulty, and is family friendly.
Your goal in Search for the Sacred Stone is to recover the "sacred stone" from a hidden jungle location. You manipulate the gaming environment using basic sentences, such as "Get book and read it" or "Enter the hotel". If you began your computer game playing in the good old days, then you will certainly enjoy Search for the Sacred Stone.
Playinfo
Search for the Sacred Stone is © 1986, 2005 by Mikel Rice. I know nothing about the 1986 version of the game other than what the ABOUT text says above. The two copyright years are displayed when the game first begins.
The 2005 updated version is for Windows only and I had no trouble running it on Windows 10 in 2020. I strongly suspect that the game was written in one of the Visual Studio languages such as Visual Basic, but I don't know which one.
These are the author's instructions (cribbed from the Internet Archive's copy of www.jesustaxi.com/mikel/stonepage2.html) for installing the game:
- Download Search for the Sacred Stone via the button below! (348 KB)
- Run STONE.EXE to uncompress files. Files will be installed into a Stone folder (as in C:\Stone).
- Run the STONE.EXE from the Stone folder to play.
NOTE: If you experience trouble downloading Search for the Sacred Stone, then try right-clicking with the mouse on the "Download" button below and selecting "Save Target As..." from the menu options.
The IFID for this game is MZ-44E5E9D5ED832B93EB3A0DF308CAF775.
Download links
Version 0.33
- stone.exe (Windows Installation App, 348 KB)
Running the installation unpacks the following files and directories into a directory of your choice:
- Stone (the main directory)
- data (a subdirectory)
- Items.dat
- junegull.ttf (a TrueText font)
- mazam.ttf (a TrueText font)
- Rooms.dat
- Strings.dat
- typoderm.ttf (a TrueText font)
- Stone.exe (the actual game app)
- data (a subdirectory)
Open the Stone directory and click on the game app, Stone.exe, to actually play the game. During play, the game will write a file called Stone_Trace.log in your current directory; it's a harmless text file listing the commands you've tried so far, like a walkthrough.
- Stone (the main directory)
- eula.txt (Txt)
This is the "End User License Agreement" for this game. This text was copied from the Internet Archive's copy of www.jesustaxi.com/mikel/stonepage2.html.
External links
- MikelRice.com ("Mikel's Microcosm") is the official homepage for this game. This, of course, was the top page for Rice's entire website. This game was listed under the Adventure tab, and the actual homepage for this game was at jesustaxi.com/mikel/stone.html. Unfortunately, both sites seem to be gone and only copies of the pages exist at the Internet Archive.