In his relentless quest (if I may) to document Acornsoft's adventure games, Mark de Weger has
contributed the hint sheets for Countdown to Doom and Kingdom of Hamil, as well as
a nice map and walkthrough for the latter game, available here.
His efforts constitute an adventure in themselves:
As you know, I've been looking for the Acornsoft adventure hint sheets of
Countdown to Doom and Kingdom of Hamil for a long time. I couldn't find
them, so I decided to reconstruct them myself. Maybe you could put them on
TBL!
I reconstructed the Countdown to Doom hint sheet from a disk with a cheat
version of Countdown to Doom. (Can you imagine someone, fifteen years or so
ago, creating a cheat version of Countdown to Doom by typing in the entire
hint sheet and creating a question-based program from it, and then someone
else reconstructing the hint sheet on the basis of this program fifteen
years later? :)
I took more radical measures to reconstruct the Kingdom of Hamil hint sheet.
I took the Topologika (PC) version as the basis and then solved the entire
game with the help of Topologika's hint system. Once I'd solved this
version, I tried to solve the Acornsoft (BBC) version on the basis of my
experiences with the Topologika version. It worked and in addition to the
hint sheet, I also created a map and a walkthrough.
Regards,
Mark.