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Just wondering (Data compressors back in the 80s)While utilizing some sort of data compression is admittedly the norm for Speccy productions nowadays, it doesn't seem to have been the case back in t…
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Adventure Game PicturesHey everyone, I'm trying to find out how to get pictures to appear during a text adventure game, similar to The Lord of the Rings tape. I'm not sure…
have to tried "The Quill + The Illustrator"
... ?regexp=^Quill+%26+Illustrator%2c+The$ &pub=^Gilsoft+International ... $&loadpics=1"]The Quill + The Illustrator ... ]
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Adventure Game PicturesHey everyone, I'm trying to find out how to get pictures to appear during a text adventure game, similar to The Lord of the Rings tape. I'm not sure…
... ;690119]have to tried "The Quill + The Illustrator"
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At the Carboot sale today.Today at the carboot sale I picked up An Acorn Electron -I see these all the time, An Official Branded BBC Micro Datacassete Recorder - I'v…
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At the Carboot sale today.Today at the carboot sale I picked up An Acorn Electron -I see these all the time, An Official Branded BBC Micro Datacassete Recorder - I'v…
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Abersoft Adventure 1This may not be of interest to anyone but me, but I've taken a quick look at Abersoft's Adventure 1, and written up the internal database format [url…
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Abersoft Adventure 1This may not be of interest to anyone but me, but I've taken a quick look at Abersoft's Adventure 1, and written up the internal database format [url…
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Gilsoft Quill/PAWHi, I'm not sure if this info has already been posted or not but for adventure fans there is an interesting site about these creators with some re…
... the-gilsoft-adventure-systems/
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The official Quill A03 ... download includes the long lost Quill A03 (disc version) and ... SSD file, which allows using Quill with a Turbo MMC interface ... is not based on the Gilsoft codebase like all the ... -
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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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…
... couple of text adventures using Gilsoft Spectrum PAW back in the ... on the operation of the Gilsoft creators which is detailed in ... are familar to using the Gilsoft PAW/Quill makers who may be ... in the original PAW or Quill utilities.
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Smart Egg... Quill?All the Smart Egg (Rigel's Revenge, Golden Eggcup & Serf's Tale) games say "Authored with a modified version of The Quill." What is the source fo…
... of the link to the Quill. There certainly is an ... does Smart Egg credit Gilsoft or The Quill in their later ... authorised custom version of The Quill, such as the four ... Quill is left in there... and why no credit for Gilsoft ... far removed from The Quill as to be a ... -
Smart Egg... Quill?All the Smart Egg (Rigel's Revenge, Golden Eggcup & Serf's Tale) games say "Authored with a modified version of The Quill." What is the source fo…
... are so sensitive about crediting Gilsoft? This being the 80's ... if you did.
Gilsoft didn't require people to ... when they say something is Quill or not, and they are ... ) that it was authored with Quill/PAW.
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The Ballpoint"The Ballpoint" http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0007945 This is a summary of the investigation Philip Richmond, Tim Gilberts (Gil…
... heavily modified versions of the Quill". Could this be one of ... they moved on from the Quill and developed their "own" ... 'heavily modified versions of the Quill' - something that has been ... quite disparaging comments about the Gilsoft system.
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Writing your own text adventuresIts something ive always wanted to do, i dont want to write them with TADS i want to write them with "The Quill" or something similar, is it possible…
Its something ive always wanted to do, i dont want to write them with TADS i want to write them with "The Quill" or something similar, is it possible for me to write games with this and put them on the internet for others to play them aswell? -
GameHiya I'm after the following titles if anyone can help. Alien ( Film Version ) Aliens ( Film Version ) Aliens US Edition ( Film Version ) The Quil…
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The Illustratior
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Ported whole casettes of backuped utiltilitiesHi! A friend of mine gave me a few casettes he found in the attic - he used these to backup ORIGINAL casettes he had back in the spectrum games. The…
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TommyGun - Utility ... what's going on...For those interested, Tony has been busy lately and unable to put as much time into TG as he'd like. He also has a child on the way soon. He told me…
... Game Maker", "P.A.W.", "Quill", etc. )
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Adventure writing with an emulatorI fancy having a go at writign an adventure using a package like GAC, Quill or PAW, but I don't know how to save my game as a .sna or .z80 or .tap et…
I fancy having a go at writign an adventure using a package like GAC, Quill or PAW, but I don't know how to save my game as a .sna or .z80 or .tap etc. file from within an emulator - can anyone help? -
Adventure writing packagesThanks for the help in an earlier post, I've now worked out how to save runnable files from within a spectrum package as a standalone emulator file. …
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RETRO GAMER ISSUE 7 now available to pre-order!Retro Gamer issue 7 will be available to buy from August 31st, and copies can now be pre-ordered from [url="http://www.retrogamer.net"]http://www.ret…
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Interest in a new adventure game?After recently reading the feature on Gilsoft in Retro Gamer I got the urge to go back to my adventure tools and create something which was actually …
... recently reading the feature on Gilsoft in Retro Gamer I got ... with the Spectrum version of Gilsoft's PAW. Due to the ... -
Adding graphics to a text adventure??Hi everyone. I've always wanted to create a Spectrum adventure game and have spent several evenings browsing the forums here, WOS and the internet on…
... had a quick dabble with Quill, GAC and PAW and now ... the program itself while with Quill you can use Illustrator but ... -
Code sheet crack POKEs: a few gamesHello. Each of these will let you enter any colour code to start the game. Learning with Leeper and Loderunner crashed .. does anyone have working …
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PawAnyone got a complete copy of 'The Professional Adventure Writer' they want to sell? Also after complete copies of 'The Quill' and 'The Illustrator'…
Anyone got a complete copy of 'The Professional Adventure Writer' they want to sell?
Also after complete copies of 'The Quill' and 'The Illustrator' too
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Entire collection of 80 adventures for sale!Hello All! Hapyp New Year to everyone. I'm putting my entire collection of Spectrum adventures up for sale and I am inviting offers. Please email me…
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New: authoring tool infoAnother feature was added to Infoseek tonight: authoring tool information - e.g. games authored with GAC, PAW, Quill, 3D Game Maker or Platform Game …
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Sherwood ForestAre we absolutely sure this game was made by Delta 4? It doesn't mention the company anywhere in the game, there's no mention of it on their [url=htt…
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The Big Four Oh (Oh Oh)!Wow! I can't believe I've just reached the 4e3 point. As you all know, it's customary for me, on reaching such milestones, to ruminate, reflect on, a…
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Aural SculptureI hope I'm doing this right. First post n all. I've read the stickies and I think this is the right place!! This game is missing from the database. …
... using a framework called The Quill. Preceding the programme itself on ...
