World of Spectrum
  • Categories
  • Discussions
  • FAQ
  • Sign In
Home › Search
Title Search
@title beer Word 'beer' in title
User Search
  • @user admin Only posts by Admin
Text Search
  • @body beer Word 'beer' in the text
Phrase Search
"Hello World" Exact phrase match
Exclude Terms
  • car -red Search cars that are not red
"Or" Searches
  • honda | bmw 'honda' or 'bmw' results
Multi-Field
@(title,body) hello Both contain 'hello'
WildCard
  • hond* civ* Match all with an astrix
Combination
  • @title bmw @user admin
See more supported syntax examples
Search Again :: Adv Search 1000 results in 0.020s
<1234567…34>
  • Listing of illustrated text adventuresThere are various text adventures that feature pictures alongside, often created with The Illustrator. Although SPOT treats these as a different genr…

    There are various text adventures that feature pictures alongside, often ... treated as regular text adventures, but with a ... adventures slightly easier, too, especially as some of them came without pictures ... /> How should illustrated text adventure be listed in ...
    mheide mheide May 2009 Games
  • Wanted: New/Newish text adventures for Monument MicrogamesSo we have general games in card-box packaging with added goodies, and we have compilations in new long-boxes. I'd like to begin a third and final r…

    ... and final range for Monument... Text adventures.

    I know these ... is good stories and puzzles. Graphics are not necessary, but always ...
    Graz Graz April 2014 Wanted
  • Text adventuresHi everyone (first post!) how ya all doing? I was just wondering to myself how many of you used to play text adventures? I remember when I was aroun…

    ... of you used to play text adventures? I remember when I was ...
    Sven Sven March 2004 Games
  • Playing text adventures thru emulators....I'm currently itching to play some text adventures through an emulator on my PC, but I was wondering : will it be possible to save my position? Or wi…

    ... currently itching to play some text adventures through an emulator on my ...
    stinkfoot stinkfoot September 2004 Games
  • Profanities in speccy text adventures[url="http://www.monkeon.co.uk/swearadventure/"]http://www.monkeon.co.uk/swearadventure/[/url] "A nostalgic look at what used to happen when you tri…

    [url="http://www.monkeon.co.uk/swearadventure/"]http://www.monkeon.co.uk/swearadventure/[/url]

    "A nostalgic look at what used to happen when you tried typing swear words into text adventures"

    Daren
    Daren Daren November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Best Text Adventures On SpeccyWhat do you think? What are the best text adventures for Speccy in your opinion? My choice: 1. Worm In Paradise 2. Sherlock 3. The Hobbit

    What do you think?
    What are the best text adventures for Speccy in your opinion?

    My choice:

    1. Worm In Paradise
    2. Sherlock
    3. The Hobbit
    dosh dosh July 2005 Games
  • Public domain text adventures?Are there any Spectrum text adventures which are in the public domain? Boring, I know, but if anyone has the answer...? :-)

    Are there any Spectrum text adventures which are in the public domain?

    Boring, I know, but if anyone has the answer...? :-)
    udgoverload udgoverload September 2006 Games
  • Worm In Paradise/playing text adventuresHi folks I've seen this game highly lauded in many sections of this website and I've been dabbling with getting back into text adventures recently. …

    ... dabbling with getting back into text adventures recently. If I have the ... out there is still playing text adventures, it would be good to ...
    LeeRich LeeRich July 2007 Games
  • easy text adventuresWhich are the easiest text adventures in the WoS archive?

    Which are the easiest text adventures in the WoS archive?
    Jumping Stack Jumping Stack August 2007 Games
  • Text adventuresI never found much fun in playing these when I was younger but have now with maturity started to enjoy them a little more. Has anyone got any pointer…

    ... starter in the world of text adventures, as I am not keen ... stuff.

    The only text adventure I completed as a ...
    Old Man Kensey Old Man Kensey January 2008 Games
  • Porting C64 text adventures to ZX Spectrum?I would like to port some of my text adventures from the C64 on over to the ZX Spectrum. Is this easy to do? Can someone with knowledge of the Spectr…

    ... to port some of my text adventures from the C64 on over ... sounds daunting, but I have text adventures that I have written for ... /> Dunric's 8K Adventure - A text adventure in only 8KB.
    Paul Panks Paul Panks May 2008 Games
  • Anyone recommend any good text adventures?I've never played one. Tell a lie, I played Hulk or was it Human Torch and the Thing? Yeah, one of 'em and I played it for all of five minutes and co…

    ... called it a day for text adventures.

    Which ones do ...
    CUCHULAINN CUCHULAINN July 2008 Games
  • Text adventures - nice difficulty levels!Hello Specchums I started playing a text adventure this morning, The Big Sleaze, after many years of neglect and found the beginning puzzle rather t…

    ... />
    I started playing a text adventure this morning, The Big ... had any suggestions on which text adventures have a comfortable difficulty level ...
    LeeRich LeeRich July 2008 Games
  • About Spanish Text adventuresMartijn, the screenshot of the game "El Examen" belongs to the one from Burga's Software, not from Rock and Soft. And another thing, When I use adva…

    ... advanced infoseek looking for spanish text adventures, there is one which doesnt ...
    Ivanzx Ivanzx September 2008 Infoseek database
  • Can anyone name these 2 text adventures??I'm trying to find the names of two text adventures but I'm not having any luck so far and wondered if anyone can help. Hopefully if I describe what …

    ... find the names of two text adventures but I'm not having ...
    y8c y8c January 2009 Games
  • ZX Spectrum (Text) Adventures - Additional InfomationI've put together a document with addition information and/or corrections for 150+ of the text adventures in the database. [URL="www.garethpitchford…

    ... corrections for 150+ of the text adventures in the database.

    Text Adventures - PDF document[/URL]

    Strident Strident April 2010 Infoseek database
  • Text adventures in Spanish/Aventuras del texto en espa?olHello, chaps. I'm interested in learning Spanish but don't want to be stuck in tourist speak from all the books, so thought a good way to learn more …

    ... to play a couple of text adventures in Spanish.
    So, can ...
    Vertigo Vertigo September 2011 Games
  • Text Adventures through Facebook; advice please!I've started doing what I call text adventures (but would really fall under the category of role-playing) with friends through the chat on Facebook, …

    ... started doing what I call text adventures (but would really fall under ...
    The Lone Magpie The Lone Magpie April 2012 Chit chat
  • 1986 Text adventuresI hadn't realised until I started doing this blog entry what a great year 1986 was for[URL="http://jdanddiet.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/speccy-years-1986…

    I hadn't realised until I started doing this blog entry what a great year 1986 was for[URL="http://jdanddiet.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/speccy-years-1986-text-adventures.html"] text adventures![/URL]
    jdanddiet jdanddiet June 2012 Announcements
  • Spectrum text adventures with music - are there any?I was playing the C64 version of Kentilla and rather enjoying [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX0gIf1Hg4E"]Rob Hubbard's in-game soundtrack[/URL…

    I was playing the C64 version of Kentilla and rather enjoying [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX0gIf1Hg4E"]Rob Hubbard's in-game soundtrack[/URL].

    I wondered if any Speccy 128 text adventures featured AY music as you played?
    MartynC MartynC April 2013 Games
  • Text adventures.Playing text adventures on handheld systems, is it possible-sensible and which system is best. Cheers.

    Playing text adventures on handheld systems, is it possible-sensible and which system is best.

    Cheers.
    1980-20.. 1980-20.. May 2013 Emulators
  • SPECTRUM GAMES FOR SALE incl. TEXT ADVENTURESYet more clearing out. A number of nice titles including quite a few text adventures. http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=…

    Yet more clearing out. A number of nice titles including quite a few text adventures.

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=&_ssn=millys-pigdog&_sop=1

    cheers

    P
    pigdog pigdog August 2015 Sales
  • RARE TEXT ADVENTURES FOR SALEHello All Might have to scroll down the list....some nice and unusual text adventures (amongst other things - click on Buy it Now to see everythin…

    ... list....some nice and unusual text adventures (amongst other things - click on ...
    pigdog pigdog November 2015 Sales
  • PestilenceJust started work on the second of ten ideas i have on paper (Pip the Pipistrelle was the first),for this next one i am going down the text adventure…

    ... PAWS used to save the graphics as simple references? I.e ... didn't actually store any "graphics".[/QUOTE]
    You can do ... the graphics in PAW using the built ... never seen the point of graphics in text adventures. Words are king! :)
    Strident Strident April 2012 New game ideas
  • Trying to remember an old text based game I used to play...Hi all, hope u had a nice Christmas.. I've been scratching my head for some time now trying to remember the name of an old game I used to play on my …

    ... /> It was a text based game, no graphics as I recall, and ... standard linear nature of most text adventures this was more of a ... village" springs to mind... no graphics though...
    I think the ... to recap, it was a text based non-graphical adventure/rpg ...
    RetroGamerUK RetroGamerUK December 2011 Games
  • text adventures from 2000 onwardsI've gone all text adventure. Does anyone have a list of adventures produced from 2000 onwards?

    I've gone all text adventure. Does anyone have a list of adventures produced from 2000 onwards?
    ANDREW RYALS ANDREW RYALS June 2018 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…

    ... .org/forums/discussion/54611/import-new-wos-data-from- ... https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/software/text-adventures/colossal-adventure-level-9- ... />
    [code]Multicolor 8x1 Graphics Engine (18 char columns x ... also helped me to import old WoS content into ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas June 2020 Updates
  • Graphical Amusementsstefano (another z88dk bod) has been working on something interesting: run them with the usual LOAD "" [url]http://stefanob.webs.com/rabbit.tap[/ur…

    ... be digested by z88dk's graphics routines. The resulting image ... target supported by z88dk's graphics libraries and this even ... by hand to make the pictures look their best. Because ... pictures off disk or ramdisk seems like a viable option for text adventures ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2009 Development
  • Where to start?..Hello, First off, sorry if this is in the wrong and sorry if the questions I'm about to ask have been asked and answered numerous time! Little back…

    ... could also make some pictures for others works. Such ... br />
    Regarding graphics, aside from the already mentioned ... for assembly programs), several graphics programs for drawing and conversion ... notably GAC and PAW for text adventures), and a sprite library ...
    meow meow September 2011 Development
  • ZX Spectrum Gamer issue 2 is out[url=http://www.pcengine.co.uk/gamer/][img]http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/910/zxspectrumgamerforumima.png[/img][/url] It may be about 6 months l…

    ... text adventure and its presentation in both terms of atmosphere and graphics ... inherent failure to like text adventures rather than the game ... . I wish more adventures shared its quality visuals ... disturbing about the "rating potato" pictures![/QUOTE]

    ...
    sunteam sunteam April 2012 Announcements
<1234567…34>

Latest Posts

  • I am currently watching.....
    Paradigm Shifter on 12:49AM
  • New video about S-video modification on Issue two 48K Spectrum.
    Renegade on April 21
  • Fixed Speccy Software. And which games remained unfixed?
    John Elliott on April 21
  • Happy 40th Birthday to the Amstrad CPC464!
    rich_chandler on April 21
  • Another Birthday! The Game Boy Is 35!
    mel the bell on April 21
  • European Software Titles with an English version
    harriusherbartio on April 21
  • Elusive Strategy Games done by the Smaller or less Prolific Software Houses.
    harriusherbartio on April 21
  • 1992 Spectrum Software
    harriusherbartio on April 21
  • +3 Disk drive motor
    AndyC on April 21
  • Celebrity deaths...
    mel the bell on April 20

HitBox

Word Docs Hits
import 1.4K 1.9K
graphics 22.6K 30K
pictures 5.4K 6.2K
text 12.9K 17.6K
adventures 3.6K 4.3K

Related Threads

  • 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…
  • Text adventuresHi everyone (first post!) how ya all doing?<br /> <br /> I was just wondering to myself how many of you used to play text adventures? I remember when…
  • Playing text adventures thru emulators....I'm currently itching to play some text adventures through an emulator on my PC, but I was wondering : will it be possible to save my position? Or wi…
  • Profanities in speccy text adventures[url="http://www.monkeon.co.uk/swearadventure/"]http://www.monkeon.co.uk/swearadventure/[/url]<br /> <br /> "A nostalgic look at what used to happen …
  • The Best Text Adventures On SpeccyWhat do you think?<br /> What are the best text adventures for Speccy in your opinion?<br /> <br /> My choice:<br /> <br /> 1. Worm In Paradise<br />…
  • did you ever type in swear words whilst playing text adventures?i did quite a few times, the most oftern one been in seabase delta when i could get the egg from the hen (thanks to a guide on the internet i finally…
  • 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…
  • Public domain text adventures?Are there any Spectrum text adventures which are in the public domain?<br /> <br /> Boring, I know, but if anyone has the answer...? :-)
  • 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…
  • Worm In Paradise/playing text adventuresHi folks<br /> <br /> I've seen this game highly lauded in many sections of this website and I've been dabbling with getting back into text adventure…

Related Searches

  • graphics respirces
  • graphics resources
  • graphics library
  • light force graphics
  • text adventure
  • text adventure 2016
  • text adventures
  • football manager graphics
  • mac osx graphics
  • mapping text adventures
  • best text adventures
  • gac import pictures
  • import pictures
  • digitised pictures in text adventures
  • importing graphics into text adventures
  • import pictures into gac
  • paw import pictures
  • import paws graphics
  • import graphics paws
  • import pictures paws

Copyright © 2024 World of Spectrum