After the original ZX Spectrum version, "The Quill" was ported to the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit family, and Apple II and Oric. Versions were also published by CodeWriter, Inc. in North America (under the name of "AdventureWriter") and a version by Norace in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. A French version was also made by Codewriter. In 1985 Neil Fleming-Smith ported "The Quill" to the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers for Gilsoft. Although not credited in the article, Chris Hobson submitted a patch to Crash magazine which allowed the Spectrum version to save to a Microdrive. This was published in the September 1986 edition