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The Spectrum game you always come back toIs there a Spectrum game that you still come back to playing after all these years? For me, after all this time there still isn't a game to match Ba…
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The Spectrum game you always come back toIs there a Spectrum game that you still come back to playing after all these years? For me, after all this time there still isn't a game to match Ba…
... ;849515"]I also like the text adventures 'Ground Zero', Subsunk' and 'Seabase ... produced his last game (Imagination) in 1987, but I'd love ... the dying market for commercial text adventures?) and so on. Shame he ... -
P.A.W. questionThis might be a really easy question, but I've been struggling to do something with Professional Adventure Writer for a couple of days now and althou…
... be followed by a DONE in order to avoid an unwanted ... 't do that" message appear in case there were no items ...
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In a quick test this seems ... know people are working with text adventures :D
What was the last ever Speccy game you bought?I think the last game I ever bought was Captain Blood. Back then I found it a bit boring, great to look at, but boring. I think I'd probably find i…
I think the last 'arcade' type game was Dr Who Dalek Attack in 1993 (in the UK anyway). Text adventures lasted a bit longer and were still being released into the mid-late 90s.
The last game I bought was probably Last Ninja 2The Warlock Of Firetop MountainI know this game isn't everyone's idea of a great game but I've been playing this since it was released in 1984 and I've still not managed to complet…
... .worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/w/WarlockOfFiretopMountainThe.gif[/img ... more based on the books (text adventures) were The Forest of Doom ...A software house on your doorstep.In late 1987, I noticed a few kids from a housing estate in my town (Wellingborough) were wearing HACKER badges. I didn't know at the time that this …
... quite dark usually, kinda like text adventures but with more to them ... the Speccy, Nowadays he lives in the same town, manages the ...A new emulator is in townHello, I'd like to announce a new ZX Emulator, it's Spectacol (https://github.com/bog-dan-ro/spectacol) a free (GPLv3+) emulator which currently t…
... hold the touchscreen while shouting in order to keep the command ... with many controls, for playing text adventures without typing, even to make ...ZX Spectrum Game Creator?What is the program to create new ZX Spectrum game to save as a tape file (TAP) (Z80) or (TZX)??
... can create a tape file in whatever format you choose (tap ... platform, shoot-em-ups, arcade adventures.
Platform Games Creator (PGD ... System (PAWS) - text adventures
Graphic Adventure Creator (GAC) - text adventures with graphics
Multi-platform hits that lack a Speccy port?Title says it all, really: Do you know any games that were a great hit, ported to several (or even many) platforms, but -for whatever reason- didn…
... good compliment for the Spectrum in this regard, as many ... adventure games, Paradroid, the Infocom text adventures (even though the Hitch-Hiker ... were finally given Farmer Jack in Harvest Havoc, but it lacks ... balance the apples (stones, in FJIHH) to wait for the ...The most atmospheric Speccy and non-Speccy games?I was playing Alien vs. Predator (the XBox port of the 1999 PC first person shooter) yesterday, as the Marine, and I was going through the dark, lit …
... found this quite atmospheric back in the day as you tried ... as everyone knows, and some text adventures really dragged you into the ... Over Moscow atmospheric.
In more recent times I loved ...Games written by women?Just noticed Mrs Mopp was written by a Tina! I was surprised, despite being a radical feminist! Have any other games been written entirely by l…
At least a handful of text adventures in the later days were written by women, using tools like The Quill. I believe Zenobi published several of them.TAB - Text Adventure BuilderOk. I wasn't exactly sure which forum to post this, so mods feel free to move to relevant section.. Remember all those old text adventures written w…
... new areas of the game in that one. :)
Yes ... the best and most successful text adventures ever written have a healthy ... few simple sentences of descriptive text one can mentally conjure up ...1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.
... .worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/c/Countdown_3.gif[/img ... where the players take it in turn to fill a rack ... solely me being pedantic) no digitised pictures of Carol Vorderman. An average ...Something is missing from my life.I've been bandying around with the idea of why it's just not quite the same, even when playing Spectrum games as it was back in the eighties. . A…
... today to play in the week..
Colditz text adventure.
Text adventures were always my first choice in the early days ...Something is missing from my life.I've been bandying around with the idea of why it's just not quite the same, even when playing Spectrum games as it was back in the eighties. . A…
... at least 3 Colditz-based text adventures available for the Spectrum..
in the day, but just went ...The PrisonerThere were a handful of text adventures based on The Prisoner, but how about a flip-screen graphical adventure game.<div>I think with backgrounds a b…
Thanks Timmy, it's the first I've heard about it. Luny, all the games are text adventures, a couple have supporting pictures. If anyone knows about any other Prisoner-related games on any platform, please add your entries, I'd be interested to see them.1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.
... .worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/a/AsterixAndTheMagicCauldron.gif[/img ... slow to be drawn, as in many text adventures, spoiling the gameplay.
1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.
... [/b] [=not including strategy, management, text adventures, quiz, board games and not ... [somebody did]
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New Game: Rediscovered RealmsA compilation of my BASIC text adventures from the 80's, re-visioned using Boriel's basic compiler and released as a set, complete with companion gui…
... the website, I saw some text adventures from 2012, are those the ... says, it should be updated in the next few months (fingers ...Help Me Remember Space Text Adventure!This is a weird one, because it's not a game I played as a kid, in fact I only discovered it about a year ago. I have forgotten what it was called…
... . One of the few completed text adventures in my lifetime, surprisingly not too ...Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition 2017As the creator of the second-least crap game in last year's competition (and the only mug stupid enough to agree to host it this year) I am proud/ash…
... on bas2tap, or a setting in e.g. BASin that will ... about which commands are used in the program? Aha, you already ... of disallowed commands. I suppose text adventures, perhaps golf and similar programs ... where you had to type in angle and power to throw ...Retro Game Comparison Blog.So, here's a shameless plug for my blog, which should interest some of you. Then again, it's not biased towards any particular system, so it might no…
... wanted to write a proper in-depth review of it ... commercially released Finnish text adventure for the ZX Spectrum. In addition to ... a fairly in-depth review of ... said about other old Finnish text adventures, if anyone's interested.What is needed to get a high standard , "emulator focused" PC?The implication I am making is that a normal PC can be improved on emulation wise by building in some emulation friendly features . But this could be…
... has a keyboard incorporated for text adventures. This model may be good ... wireless gamepads are more compatible in general.. in short, this gamepad may ...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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If you're interested in reviewing some titles with a ... haven't reviewed yet [excluding text adventures, strategy stuff etc.]:
Alphabet Quiz: The RevengeI was bored and decided to knock up another quiz of letters, all from loading screens, all taken directly from screenshots in the archive. I'd never …
... clue for "T": The "T" in the picture is the second ... "T" in the title. :)[/quote]
I ... through T again (games and text adventures), checked all games that had ...Alphabet Quiz: The RevengeI was bored and decided to knock up another quiz of letters, all from loading screens, all taken directly from screenshots in the archive. I'd never …
... clue for "T": The "T" in the picture is the second ... "T" in the title. :)[/quote]
I ... through T again (games and text adventures), checked all games that had ... , going by the vote score in the archive (although I'd ...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…
... .org/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/d/DonQuijote.gif[/ ... literature, was rightly converted into text adventure by Dinamic.
... be knighted to start your adventures along the country.
... one of the best text adventures in spanish for the Spectrum.< ...In the Nick of Time?I've got an idea for a game titled 'In the Nick of Time' You're nicked chum, it's the 23rd century and your punishment is to be put into a prison …
... in text without gobbling up memory and adding even a few simple pictures ... at least one that uses text.Spectrum Computing Update ThreadThis thread has been created for us to provide updates for the Spectrum Computing Website. As well as providing updates, this thread is ideal if you …
... an alphabetised listing of games/text adventures/utilities etc?[/quote]
pictures of my dinner)... B-)New game: Sam Mallard - The Case of the Missing Swan[img]http://i66.tinypic.com/o8z6vd.png[/img] [code] Sam Mallard – The Case of the Missing Swan. Version 1.0 by Ersh in 2016 The clock had tur…
... that put me right off text adventures.[/quote]
Haha..! That ... obscure as the inn puzzle in [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org ...
