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  • YSRnRY TV Prog: 1986 chapter OUT NOW!The 1986 chapter of the documentary is OUT NOW! Watch as the Speccy world changes forever with the arrival of the 128k machines! See Sinclair Researc…

    ... easily put some adventure games in... it only takes a few ... being drawn, and the associated text. Simple, but I would say ... that is a defining moment in gaming. The same kinda thing ... it's a thought. Graphical text adventures should be simple.
    icabod icabod May 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • I played DSpec on my DSlite!That's right, TheHiVE sent out a few copys of a pre-release version of DSpec and I was one of the luckiest fellers in the world to get one ! I't ver…

    ... is a bit fiddly for text adventures but for me thats a ... Lite's f'king head in.

    Being able to ...
    Bluce_Ree Bluce_Ree July 2006 Emulators
  • We did FPS's so...I thought I'd do a poll to see which adventure games people like. I chose The Longest Journey as I've only played it recently and it's absolutely bri…

    ... the best of the old text adventures for atmosphere. Level 9's ... minus the tedious combat system in the latter) don't make ...
    Matt_B Matt_B August 2006 Chit chat
  • Various Games to TradeHi Another list (this time with slightly rarer games =D), I am looking to trade for adventure games e.g. text adventures on 8-bit platforms (infocom…

    ... TRS-80 to PC, both text adventures a la Infocom, Mag Scrolls ... oscure stuff =D) and graphic adventures similar to the Lucasarts/Lucasfilm ... how to display a table in a post? (sorry, I know ...
    Dopey Jack Dopey Jack September 2006 Sales
  • Website idea: Text Adventure walkthroughs, complete with full text[QUOTE=ZX Beccy]Oh god am I! I recently bought the Zenobi collection, pure genius. When a computer game can have you in uncontrolable fits of laughte…

    I considered re-writing some text adventures for online use. It wouldn' ... there is a decent engine in place, it would be possible ...
    Lee Fogarty Lee Fogarty September 2006 Games
  • Website idea: Text Adventure walkthroughs, complete with full text[QUOTE=ZX Beccy]Oh god am I! I recently bought the Zenobi collection, pure genius. When a computer game can have you in uncontrolable fits of laughte…

    ... not only a walkthrough of text adventures, but also a full trace ... with the video objects embedded in.
    Daren Daren September 2006 Games
  • Tell The World...What Spectrum game are you playing right now? The world needs to know ... well it probably doesn't, but that shouldn't stop you from letting us know …

    im working my way through the text adventures.

    currently on 'man about the house.'

    (not playing them all, just the ones that appeal to me, and in not in any order.)
    mile mile September 2006 Games
  • So, you think you know your stuff, eh?!?Well, see how well you do with this little quiz at: [url]http://forum.micromart.co.uk/Topic135977-24-1.aspx[/url] Regards, Shaun.

    ... okay in my book - as long as he didn't do text adventures ...
    CP/M User CP/M User September 2006 Chit chat
  • The Adv. Game I'm Ridiculously Trying To Play Part 1Ok, from now on from time to time I will start playing some adventure games and I will keep a "journal" in the forum about my progression, or, more p…

    Yes, although that moment of satisfaction is oft short lived as you're immediately stuck with another soul destroying and seemingly impossible to solve puzzle. Text adventures were the third highest cause of hair loss in the world back in the Eighties.
    Collie Collie September 2006 Games
  • The Adv. Game I'm Ridiculously Trying To Play Part 1Ok, from now on from time to time I will start playing some adventure games and I will keep a "journal" in the forum about my progression, or, more p…

    ... puzzle. Text adventures were the third highest cause of hair loss in the ... world back in the Eighties.[/QUOTE ... the other common problem with adventures, to progress you sometimes have ...
    udgoverload udgoverload September 2006 Games
  • The Adv. Game I'm Ridiculously Trying To Play Part 1Ok, from now on from time to time I will start playing some adventure games and I will keep a "journal" in the forum about my progression, or, more p…

    ... puzzle. Text adventures were the third highest cause of hair loss in the ... used to load up a text adventure from a magazine tape ... was going to be a text adventure, it usually only took ... there was at least one text adventure that reset the speccy ...
    Vertigo Vertigo October 2006 Games
  • The Adv. Game I'm Ridiculously Trying To Play Part 1Ok, from now on from time to time I will start playing some adventure games and I will keep a "journal" in the forum about my progression, or, more p…

    ... can help, and some PC text adventures were kind enough to let ... thing for me though were adventures were you could die, I ... Island was a great game in this respect, there was never ... the tedious paranoia of other adventures.
    udgoverload udgoverload October 2006 Games
  • The Adv. Game I'm Ridiculously Trying To Play Part 1Ok, from now on from time to time I will start playing some adventure games and I will keep a "journal" in the forum about my progression, or, more p…

    ... get clear in our heads first is the fact that text adventures games ... them to play and enjoy text adventure games.

    They ...
    Dave Fountain Dave Fountain October 2006 Games
  • The Adv. Game I'm Ridiculously Trying To Play Part 1Ok, from now on from time to time I will start playing some adventure games and I will keep a "journal" in the forum about my progression, or, more p…

    ... can help, and some PC text adventures were kind enough to let ... thing for me though were adventures were you could die, I ... Island was a great game in this respect, there was never ... paranoia of other adventures.[/QUOTE]

    i died in monkey island ...
    mile mile October 2006 Games
  • What was the +2 and +3 keyboard like compared to the 128 and + one?I had a Spectrum 128, which had the infamous plastic-but-spongy keys. It was fine for games where you only had to press a handful of keys repeatedly,…

    ... never used a word processor in speccy. No printers were around ... this because I was interested in playing text adventures.
    udgoverload udgoverload October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • MIA: Demoniak - Palace Software ?Hi folks, Can anyone prove or disprove the existance of this title on any 8-bit platform ? I'm not sure where the info came to put it in the MIA lis…

    ... being "Demoniak" ... BUT! that was in the late '80s and not ... ), I believe it was a text adventure.

    It may ... type-in kind of thing (because I remember my friend loved text adventures ...
    Skarpo Skarpo October 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…

    ... got even more dificult when in 1991 I had my Dynavision ... /> So I lost much time in programming and now I´m ... ´s a pleasure to think in front of those machines, try ... /> I´m able to make text adventures but now I want to ...
    Paulo Kathanni Paulo Kathanni November 2006 Games
  • Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…

    ... . However, you are in Brazil so shipping from ... Run flies-2068.tap in the EightyOne emulator. It ... I?m able to make text adventures but now I want ... write the installation section in the next day or ... the SP1 sprite engine in [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2006 Games
  • Speccy graphics on CBM64The recent "Starquake" thread had me browsing through Steve Crow's portfolio of games and I was quite surprised when following the links to the CBM64…

    ... if you use sprite multiplexing in the border area)
    ... would have been great for text adventures and serious software, and ... 128K Spectrum had had longer in development...

    ... person shooters not having bots in multiplayer mode.

    ...
    ewgf ewgf November 2006 Games
  • Games Club wc 27/11/06This is under new management by me (mile). Its pretty much the same, expcet that the polling will end on Monday rather than Friday. So you all know t…

    ... look for 'gears of war' in the archive, for next week ... get a load of spanish text adventures, as what happened when i ... it, after the bomberman comment in the archive.

    anyhoo ...
    mile mile November 2006 Games
  • What are your favorite Spectrum games?[FONT="System"][/FONT] If anybody has asked this question before, please forgive me as I'm new to the WorldofSpectrum forums, but what are your favo…

    ... are few other games match in my opinion, tactical combat is ... few platforms that actually has text adventures, which my brother thinks are ...
    CaroKann CaroKann December 2006 Games
  • Secret Of St. Bride'sI recently bought a copy of Secret Of St. Bride's (excellent game by the way) and the inlay says that it was distributed by Audiogenic (I always thou…

    ... but a place where girls in their 20s and 30s could ... it was like to be in a 1920s era boarding school ... would suddenly turn to programming text adventures?

    Put it this ...
    udgoverload udgoverload January 2007 Infoseek database
  • Nokia E62 -Can it run Speccy emulators?Right now I'm using a motorola v190. It only uses java, and it seems there are no java speccy emulators for it. The resolution is also very small. Af…

    ... keyboard, so you can play text adventures as well as normal arcade ... have to have a smartphone in order to run smartphone software ...
    udgoverload udgoverload January 2007 Emulators
  • WOS - The Computer Game I may start looking at putting some quick routines together for this over the weekend, so wanted to establish some sort of concensus as to the form …

    ... be done, specially as a text adventure, for instance. Those with ... into those programs in the archive which make text adventures easier to create ... -like panorama graphics to a text/graphics adventure...

    my ...
    alban lusitanae alban lusitanae January 2007 Games
  • Not a new site, but still good.Some of you probably know the "Planet Sinclair"-site, but it's a good one, so it's worth mentioning once more: [url]http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/…

    ... much fit the whole computer in your pocket.

    Modern ... for typing large amounts of text but most people didn't ... still don't like using text adventures with rubber keys though.
    udgoverload udgoverload February 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The best speccy software housesThanks to Martijn for increasing the number of poll options to 30. Right, what were the best speccy software houses in your opinion? (multiple selec…

    Ultimate - Great in the early years, but ... poor game - admittedly atrociously bad - in Space Station Zebra.

    text adventures. Only Magnetic Scrolls were in the same league ... consistency and the big name in accurate simulations for pretty ...
    Matt_B Matt_B February 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrian for S60 Phones[B]Spectrian[/B] [I](White Cloud Software)[/I] Spectrian is a capable Spectrum emulator for S60 phones. It can run games in 48k and 128k mode, and h…

    ... to switch modes to input text, then switch back (perhaps ... press of the # key, type in (sms txt input style) and ... that text adventures would be much more playable with this input system in ... keys, and b) are not text adventures. I tried configuring Contact: Sam ...
    TechnicianSi TechnicianSi March 2007 Emulators
  • N, E, E, NE, E, E, NE and N.Discuss.....

    too many text adventures had these mazes they were evil, but it kinda sounds like the route through the garden in Red Door.
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek March 2007 Games
  • Features that emulators don't haveI believe most of us use more than one emulator, mainly because there isn't one emulator that has all the features we need or want to use. We also kn…

    ... get into playing some speccy text adventures if it works well over ... should I use another distro? In such case, which one?
    Marcelo Marcelo March 2007 Emulators
  • Good 128k games?As I only got my +2 in the twilight years of the spectrum and then discovered cider and Doctor and the Crippens (punk band), I never really had many …

    ... all of the Magnetic Scrolls text adventures (although only The Pawn was ... I only got my +2 in the twilight years of the ...
    Rainbird Rich Rainbird Rich March 2007 Games
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