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Witness

Title:	Witness
Category:	Game/Adventure
Release Date:	1984
Language:	English
Size:	64K
Device Req.:	Disk only (1 side)
Machine:	PAL & NTSC
Code Type:	Machine code
Distribution:	Commercial/TA
Product Code:	T266023
Game ending type:	Has an end, game ends

Published by:	Commodore Business Machines, Inc. (CBM U.S.)
Distributed by:	Infocom, Inc.
Notes:	AKA The Witness.

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Releases
Name	Released By	Release Date	Distribution	Product Code	Retail Price	Format	Package	Rarity	Notes	Owned
Original release	Infocom, Inc.	1984	Commercial	T266023		Cassette		Unspecified		0
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Publications
Included: The Witness Manual (Software Manual/English)
Included: Infocom Catalog (Promotional Material/English)

Covers

Box Front Cover

Box Cover Back

Box Rear Cover

Additional Software Materials

Suicide note

Matchbook

Reference Card

Reference Card (white)

Newspaper 1
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Newspaper 2
[ Larger version ]

Physical Media

Diskette

Solutions - Complete
Here is the complete solution by MCG: (You are the detective and you are at the entrance to Linder's house. You are carrying a telegram, a pair of handcuffs, a snub-nosed Colt and a match book. Note: you can carry maximum 8 objects simultaneously.) N (On the driveway.) N (On the front porch.) RING BELL (Phong, the butler leads you inside. In the entry.) E (Phong leads you to the livingroom. You enter the livingroom.) WAIT (Till Mr. Linder shows you his office. It's now 8:13 p.m.) SIT ON WOODEN CHAIR READ NOTE (Which he gives you.) WAIT (It's now 8:25 p.m.) WAIT (It's now 8:35 p.m.) WAIT (Monica enters the office and tells her father that she leaves to see a movie. Do you want to keep waiting?) Y (Monica heads off to the west. It's now 8:38 p.m. Do you want to keep waiting?) Y (Outside somewhere, a car roars to life and speeds away. It's now 8:45 p.m.) WAIT (It's now 8:55 p.m.) WAIT (Until 9.03 p.m. Here Linder is shot.) STAND UP PUSH BUTTON (You notice a click from the clock.) EXAMINE CLOCK (It's now 9:05 p.m. Phong appears now.) GET KEYS (From him.) DROP TELEGRAM EXAMINE KEYHOLE (There is some gunpowder residue in it.) UNLOCK BACK DOOR OPEN IT E (Office porch. Standing on a small concrete slab outside Linder's office. You notice some fresh foot prints heading east.) S (Office path. On a path made of stepping stones, which leads from the back gate at the south to Linder's office at the north. A muddy handgun is here.) GET HANDGUN N (Office porch. Sgt. Duffy arrives.) W (Office.) ANALYZE POWDER (Duffy leaves with the sample of powder.) EXAMINE WINDOW (You notice the end of a piece of green wire.) GET WIRE W (The south end of a hallway.) N (Hallway.) N (Near the middle of the central hallway.) OPEN BUTLER'S DOOR W (In the bedroom of the butler. A book is on the bed-side table.) OPEN MYSTERY BOOK (Found a receipt of some kind using as a bookmark.) GET RECEIPT READ IT (It is a receipt for two guns.) E (Hallway.) S (Hallway.) S (Hallway.) UNLOCK GARAGE DOOR OPEN IT S (In the garage.) UNLOCK WORKSHOP DOOR OPEN IT E (In the workshop.) WAIT FOR DUFFY (Duffy comes back. He tells you about the gunpowder. It's now 9:40 p.m.) ANALYZE MUDDY GUN WAIT FOR DUFFY (Duffy comes back. He tells that the gun has recently been fired. It's now 10:01 p.m.) ANALYZE PIECE (Of wire.) WAIT FOR DUFFY (The wire comes off a bell. Remember the BUTTON. It's now 10:30 p.m.) WAIT FOR MONICA (It's now 11:00 p.m. Monica still hasn't arrived. Dou you want to keep waiting?) Y (She soon returns from the movies. It's now 11:03 p.m.) WAIT (Till she leaves. Dou you want to keep waiting?) N (You must now follow her. It's now 11:13 p.m.) W (Garage.) N (Hallway.) E (Office.) W (Hallway.) N (Hallway.) N (Hallway.) E (Monica's bedroom.) WAIT FOR MONICA (It's now 11:25 p.m.) ASK MONICA ABOUT MR. LINDER (She was happy that he died.) WAIT (Monica tells her life on. Dou you want to keep waiting?) Y (It's now 11:36 p.m.) WAIT (It's now 11:46 p.m.) WAIT (It's now 11:56 p.m.) WAIT (It's now 12:06 a.m.) WAIT (Until she exits again. Do you want to keep waiting?) N (You must follow her. It's now 12:07 a.m.) W (Hallway.) S (Hallway.) S (Hallway.) E (Office. Monica is here, biting her nails.) HANDCUFF MONICA SEARCH MONICA (Found a single key.) UNLOCK CLOCK DOOR OPEN CLOCK DOOR (It contains a firing mechanism.) SEARCH MONICA (You find a hand gun - The gun!) WAIT FOR DUFFY (Do you want to keep waiting?) Y (Duffy comes back. It's now 12:42 a.m.) ARREST MONICA (Do you want to make an arrest and stop your investigation now?) Y (Who happens to be the murderer!) (The police chief congrats you... Would you like to see the author's summary?) Y (You can read the story of murder...) EVIDENCE: --------- Hidden Handgun - on Monica Muddy Handgun - on 'Office Path' Key - on Monica Receipt - inside Mystery Book in 'Butler's Room' Powder - inside the keyhole in 'Office' Wire - in Window in ’Office’ The game is done successfully.