Walkthrough of the Memotech MTX text adventure “Life, the Universe and Everything” (1984) by Andrew Key, published by Tricom Software Ltd.
Use POKE (64862),9 to disable glitchy auto-repeat if needed.
Text solution. Comments are in round brackets. Optional commands are in square brackets:-
(You start in “Dark Cave” with score 0)
GET BAG (score +4=4), PUT ALL IN BAG (the guide; score +8=12), [X ALL], N (Blowbagger insults you and flies off), W, W, N, [X DEVICE] (it has a start button), PRESS BUTTON (a sofa materialises on the plains; score +8=20), S, S, SIT ON SOFA (You teleport to Lords Cricket Ground, dropping all items) (score +12=32), GET BAG (score +4=36), PUT ALL IN BAG (towel & ashes; score +24=60), W, BURN STUMPS WITH MATCH (score +16=76), PUT ALL IN BAG (fake ashes; score +24=100}, N, PUT ALL IN BAG (ball & key; score +20=120), S, PUT ALL IN BAG (crisps & newspaper; score +12=132), [X ALL, READ PAPER], BLINK (you notice a spaceship; score +16=148), N, W, S, U (ship entrance), UNLOCK DOOR WITH KEY, OPEN DOOR, S, CLOSE DOOR, LOCK DOOR WITH KEY, U, ORDER CHICKEN, EAT CHICKEN (ship zips across the galaxy; score +12=160), S, PUT ALL IN BAG (controller device; score +16=176), N, E (white room), PUT ALL IN BAG (score +20=196), [X ALL], PLUG IN CONTROLLER DEVICE (You now enter a virtual-reality reconstruction of planet Thikket which you will visit later. You start on “Hill-top”; score +20=216), S, [S, N] (Forest), E, E, S, E (in Thikket ship), W (back in white room), W, S, USE BLACK DEVICE (score +12=228), S, S, S, [E (cathedral of hate), W], KILL JAGRARAG (score +12=240), N, W, U, W, SWOOP (you collect bottle of wine; score +32=272), [X BOTTLE], E, W (Outside Party), S, GIVE BOTTLE TO DOORMAN (score +16=288) S, E (Gillian is here), [S, W, W, N, E, E] (to see all of the party), W, N, N, USE BLACK DEVICE (back in teleport room; score +8=296), N, D, WAIT (ship lands on the Thikket asteroid), UNLOCK DOOR WITH KEY, OPEN DOOR, N, D (The robots open the Wikket gate), N (Zafod is here), [X LOCK, X PLATFORM], PUT ALL IN BAG (ashes & silver bail; score +24=320), W (Zafod and ship are here), [X SHIP], GIVE BAIL TO ZAFOD (score +16=336), E, S, U, S, CLOSE DOOR, LOCK DOOR WITH KEY, U, ORDER CHICKEN, EAT CHICKEN (Ship lands on Thikket; score +8=344), D, UNLOCK DOOR WITH KEY, OPEN DOOR, N, D (Hill-top, everything is real this time), W, W (group of Thikketters), GIVE CRISPS TO GILLIAN (she says “Take us to your leader!”; score +20=364), U, D, E, S, S (Heart of Gold), [LOOK, X LEVER, X COMPUTER, READ GUIDE (Find SIGMA tree values)], N, N, W, D, E, E, S (forest), X TREE (1), S, X TREE (1+72=73), W, X TREE (73+76=149), E, X TREE (149+189=338), W, X TREE (338+253=591), E, X TREE (591+296=887), N, X TREE (887+301=1188), S, X TREE (1188+312=1500, the final result), N, N (back on hill-top), W, W, U, U, W, [S, X SHIP, N] (to see fake ship exhibit), N (Hectar invites you to see him), S, E, E (Airlock), TOUCH PANEL (score +8=372), W (after reading Hectar’s exposition), W, D, E, S, S (back in Heart of Gold), [READ GUIDE], PROGRAM COMPUTER, B (1500 - the number obtained from the forest maze; score +8=380), PULL LEVER (ship lands on Earth; score +20=400), N, D, W, KILL ROBOT (score +20=420), E, U, S, PULL LEVER (Prat joins the ship; score +20=440), WAIT, [WAIT], [ASK PRAT FOR ANSWER] (42 of course), ASK PRAT FOR QUESTION (score +24=464) (YOU HAVE WON !!!)
Note: This solution scores 464 out of a possible 500 points. I have yet to find the missing 36 points - answers on a post card please. :)