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Does anyone play text adventures?I wrote a text adventure using The Quill waaaaay back when I was 16. It was released commercially by Kerian software and was available on here. It wa…
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Gandalf - A ZX Spectrum platformer that looks rather nice indeed![img]https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BuVmuvmRXfg/WYhRw0z0lMI/AAAAAAAAisA/LFKD4SipiSkm3x0FsCNjJCRsCnHgE6W6gCLcBGAs/s640/GandalfZX.jpg[/img] [quote]As ma…
... in here would cost you another 20% of the ... the multicolour engine running you're now down to ... You could use it for the static graphics in an adventure game, ... fast movement. You could optimise a custom game engine to ... do it, but you're ... -
Games overrated by MagazinesI know this is a little ambigious (LMLWD) as your worst game could be someone else's best, but sometimes didn't a games review seem a little overboar…
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The game matched my expectations and I ... in a superbly illustrated game. Only this time you have the power ... br />
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1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
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Another three part adventure ... around. Add to this that you only have a limited number ... locations means the game can end before you have even left ... source material deserved a better game than this.
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1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
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Adventure text gamesHi all, just finished re-living my youth. Just completed The Hobbit on 48k. Had a total blast. My question is, what do you recommend as good title to…
... Great silly 1 location game where you get your arse superglued to ... [/url] Budget game, but a pretty decent text adventure, annoying load ... Quest[/url] Silly adventure game that was a budget game, so it's ... back in the day.....Whatever you do resist the urge to ... -
1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
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You know after all these years I decided this game isn ... to reset the game if you do, because if you can't blow ... weird looking thingies you're stuck......OK Excellent game!
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1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
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adventure. A poor parser (you can't read any notes you find, you ... error involved, even for an adventure game.
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Journey to the Centre of Eddie Smith's HeadThis title has one of the worst covers i have ever seen, like Megaman US bad. I surprised it wasn't in the games archive. Is there a tape still out …
It's an adventure game made with the Quill.
You can play an emulated version of it [url="https://archive.org/details/zx_Journey_to_the_Centre_of_Eddie_Smiths_Head_1986_Players_Software"]here[/url]. -
Time travelling, inter-galactic communication with a BBC MicroJust listened to this podcast of the best story ever, to do with time travel and inter galactic communication. It happened around 1984, to a couple …
... 5 cups of tea, can you tell me the name of ... the series. Bonus points if you can answer where it was ... /> I guess its not the Adventure Game. they had beebs. What was ... -
Frankie's ZX Spectrum DigoutsWell, time has come to contribute :-) I got this huge collection of pirat tapes I bought from someone over here in Denmark in the late 90s, a tota…
Can I just say that I am really glad you've uncovered some games I never even heard of before? I am looking forward playing that text adventure game as soon as I have some spare time. :) -
Frankie's ZX Spectrum DigoutsWell, time has come to contribute :-) I got this huge collection of pirat tapes I bought from someone over here in Denmark in the late 90s, a tota…
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Films and TV shows that you're surprised didn't get an official game.Looking through the archive and see there are no games based on [b]Starfleet[/b], [b]Dogtanian And The Three Muskerhounds[/b] or [b]The Mysterious Ci…
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Proportional-width fontsFor reasons that are still not quite clear to me (because I’ve always loved typography and design,) I never bothered to write a proportional-font rou…
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Proportional-width fontsFor reasons that are still not quite clear to me (because I’ve always loved typography and design,) I never bothered to write a proportional-font rou…
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1989-2019Ok Ok maybe this is going a bit far now, but here's another year to look back on the games from 30 years ago and tear into them, or give occasional p…
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Another adventure game that suffers from it's ... guess the exact phrase required. You can't just BUY BEER ... , you have to SAY TO LANDLORD " ... -
Celebrity deaths...How about putting them all in one thread? In a sticky? As it seems to be a weekly thing at the moment? Save a bit of space and we can all do without …
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Celebrity deaths...How about putting them all in one thread? In a sticky? As it seems to be a weekly thing at the moment? Save a bit of space and we can all do without …
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Celebrity deaths...How about putting them all in one thread? In a sticky? As it seems to be a weekly thing at the moment? Save a bit of space and we can all do without …
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1989-2019Ok Ok maybe this is going a bit far now, but here's another year to look back on the games from 30 years ago and tear into them, or give occasional p…
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I'll be honest with you, I wasn't hoping for ... location description of this obscure adventure game from an equally obscure label ... -
im looking for a poke or a routine that changes the cursor editor for the 48kive had a look at a few cursor routines and pokes published here in the forum but they dont seem to work. it says you can change the color of the fla…
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Escape RoomsI heard about these in a local paper. As anyone here done one of these with their work or with their mates? Its a bit like the adventure rooms in th…
... the Crystal Maze (remember you could play an adventure, physical, mental etc ... British TV show called The Adventure Game (the one with the drogna ... -
RYGAR vs RASTAN - Which is Best?RYGAR vs RASTAN. Well It's that time of the month again (oo'er) to pick a fav out of 2 games, arcade edition. So, out of these 2 arcade games which…
... making it a branching adventure game. It's odd that ... basically wasn't the game you wanted it to be, ... as a completely different game, because basically it is ... a bit clustered while you're playing it, resulting ... special, shame about the game, and the commode ... -
One question...Is it all worth it?
... to create a text adventure is that I'm ... and the requirements of adventure game engines like PAWS or ... their rigid structuring of the game play.
... , the mechanics of such a game.
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Who's NEXT?How about having a category just for Spectrum NEXT owners? I got mine on Monday, its the original issue, plain jane and quite enough for me to ge…
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How old are you?.
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Who's NEXT?How about having a category just for Spectrum NEXT owners? I got mine on Monday, its the original issue, plain jane and quite enough for me to ge…
... really - but it looks like you have to do more work ... (which suck big time, all you need is labels and procedures ... are what you want really if you want to write an adventure game.
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Stupid bugs in gamesDid any one discover bugs in any game. I found out in Football Manager 1 you can sell all your players and still play matches (and even win them)
... one ever was in the adventure game Murder Off Miami by ... shipped out by CRL you couldn't even escape ... screen! From memory I think you had to 'stand up' ... took you back to the start of the game in ... that game and getting it home. Enough to put you off adventure ... -
What (Speccy) game are you currently playing ?(Quite a few threads on what youre listening to, watching etc) What Speccy game are you currently playing ? After playing a LOT of Invasion of the …
... Loads of Midnight (the text adventure), and the SU review was ... .
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Also, halfway into the game there was a location which ... a door, but the game forgot to tell you, so I got ... -
Any adventure game frameworks written BASIC ?I remember INPUT published a simple adventure game, with about ten locations. It was all written in BASIC, but it provided a program framework one co…
... any starting BASIC text adventure writer won't need ... ; then again your forgot you'll also have to write ... book to read, if you're new to making text ... like duck.com, and you'll easily find it.)
adventure game is probably too much in ...
