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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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Other books worth getting as good as "Speccy Nation"?I bought this off amazon - it has reviews of fifty Spectrum games that capture the essence of the machine, and it looks good fun. I'm wondering if th…
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Spectrum games that are both 48k and 128k but where the 128k version is infinitely superior The only one I can think of is "Rock Star Ate My Hamster" but there must be others . So where are the games where the 128 version is great but wher…
... is merely mediocre in comparison? Does anyone ... text adventures that have graphics in 128k and are only text in 48k, but in ... text adventures have longer/better descriptions in 128k... but I'm not into text adventures ... the Beast) are multiload in 128k.
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 …
... from Russia and "stranded" back in Blighty for the end of ... be fun delving into the text adventures, anyone got recommendations in that genre? :)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 …
... fun delving into the text adventures, anyone got recommendations in that genre? :)[/quote ...Speccy Budget World Cup 2020: The FinalIt's Magic Knight vs... Magic Knight! Sort of like the plot to Stormbringer. But that got knocked out, so which is the most worthy - his 1st or 3rd…
... too clued up on text adventures though!
In terms of cover ...Speccy Budget World Cup 2020: The FinalIt's Magic Knight vs... Magic Knight! Sort of like the plot to Stormbringer. But that got knocked out, so which is the most worthy - his 1st or 3rd…
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... Holmes, who has featured in a few text adventures, could be considered a ... Quasimodo, who has cropped up in three games that I know ...Known errors/advanced search are gone?I've been looking into the new frontend to the database. My thoughts: - It's way slower than "old" frontend. - Most operations take more clicks to …
... could search for all english text adventures released in 1985, for example, but ...Known errors/advanced search are gone?I've been looking into the new frontend to the database. My thoughts: - It's way slower than "old" frontend. - Most operations take more clicks to …
... could search for all english text adventures released in 1985, for example, but ... pages, you can list all text adventures, then filter by 1985. Not ... forgot, but left a space in the filter because I knew ...Known errors/advanced search are gone?I've been looking into the new frontend to the database. My thoughts: - It's way slower than "old" frontend. - Most operations take more clicks to …
... could search for all english text adventures released in 1985, for example, but ... pages, you can list all text adventures, then filter by 1985. Not ... or not. So 'language' in the database would have helped ... it also separate the results in pages of 15(?) games. ...New WoS and ZXDBIt turns out new WoS is using [url="https://github.com/zxdb/ZXDB"]ZXDB[/url]! More precisely [url="https://github.com/zxdb/ZXDB/blob/c4bd3e40d81a8d47…
... directly to the database in a hurry, as reaction ... relevant changes to individual entries in new WoS, except for ... Yesterday, when Fogarty Lee was in a hurry to revert all ... appears in [url="https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/software/text-adventures/werners- ...New WoS and ZXDBIt turns out new WoS is using [url="https://github.com/zxdb/ZXDB"]ZXDB[/url]! More precisely [url="https://github.com/zxdb/ZXDB/blob/c4bd3e40d81a8d47…
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[list][*] In the following months, [url="https ... ZXDB from September 2018, in order to take advantage of ... compare the corresponding line in this file against the ... since they are continuously improved in ZXDB with fixes, further ...Its Saturday, my favourite day, and I'm going to celebrate by playing...[url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi"]Yeti by Cybadyne, 1988[/url] I did a random pick and this is what I got...
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By the mid-eighties most text adventures were released by software labels based in homes - 8th Day, G.I Games, Tartan and, probably the most well known label, Zenobi.Subject Areas That the Spectrum did not "get into" Yup, the Speccy covered a lot of ground but regrettably it did not "get into" these areas :- Psycholinguistics , Philology , and Sociometry . Any…
... /text-adventures/terrormolinos-melbourne-house]Terrormolinos[/url] (BTW, it shows its age... in ... ). I guess there are many text adventures about ghosts and haunted houses ...Its Saturday, my favourite day, and I'm going to celebrate by playing...[url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi"]Yeti by Cybadyne, 1988[/url] I did a random pick and this is what I got...
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In early May, Daniel Aguilar sent ... survived on ZXDB in its original form in a microdrive image ... work, and any errors in the map have been eliminated ... you are an aficionado of text adventures, give it a determined shot ...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 …
Subsunk is a great text adventure! I always say I ... , but if you like silly adventures Escape by Tartan Software is ... anyone who’s familiar with text adventures, or used to complex parsers ... be able to finish it in under half an hour.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 …
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