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Italian versions of ZX GamesHey everyone ! While transfering A LOT of ZX games to TZX files I stumbled across an original casette with about 10 games on each side. Side A is fo…
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Better on an Emulator?!With the power of current PCs we can have our old spectrum running x2 x20 x100 it's original speed. There must be some games that benefit greatly f…
No games except text adventures benefit from this. Because usually its only one aspect of the game thats slow, so when you speed it up the whole game runs faster making the elements disproportionally faster. -
Better on an Emulator?!With the power of current PCs we can have our old spectrum running x2 x20 x100 it's original speed. There must be some games that benefit greatly f…
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Lord of the ringsAs I've seen, the Speccy version of this game only deals with the first part of this saga. Am I right to assume that they never got round to doing th…
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Pirate Software LtdAt first, I thought this was a joke, but now I've realised that this Harry S. Price guy really WAS a pirate, and of the worst kind - most of the game…
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The 5 games you thought you should like or should be better at playingThe games i think i should really get into or should be better at but cant cos im crap at em / just dont like em are :- 1) All flight sims (really r…
ALL text adventures. I'm so sick of ... a few really well-written adventures out there... :(
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the top 5 games that had u hooked back in tha day1. fantasy world dizzy 2. rollercoster 3. battle vally 4. how to be a complete bastard 5. gunfighter
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The 5 games you thought you should like or should be better at playingThe games i think i should really get into or should be better at but cant cos im crap at em / just dont like em are :- 1) All flight sims (really r…
... topic! I would also add text adventures to my previous list. I ... , a couple of Level 9 adventures), and I always felt that ... -
your favourite adventureWe all must have played text adventures on our speccys,i loved them even tho i only ever finished about 3 in my life. Anyway what was your favorite t…
... 3D labyrinth game.
Text adventures were hard to find on ... found the majority of Spectrum text adventures I know of now due ... durable side effect of playing text adventures on my Spectrum is that ... -
Games that wouldnt loadI had a few of these, and even after taking them bck some still didnt load first time :( anybody else have/had games like this The pain in the asses…
Castor, I'm not sure what you mean. It's certainly not in the Type-Ins section! Perhaps you meant the "Text Adventures" section? :) -
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…
... released quite a few BASIC text adventures, most of which were pretty ... !) which was a machine code text adventure (converted from Tandy) and ... played a lot of these adventures for a while, partly because ... -
Best national gamesThere's people from many different countries here. Posting in another thread has given me the idea of this: Why don't you post your "Top 5" of games …
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Changes that would have made a bad game goodA posting about technician ted beign far too hard to be playable got me thinking - what changes could have been made to existing games to make them b…
... hard on the eyes in text adventures and the like.
I ... substituted nice hi-res pc text instead - not that that would ... work with games with custom text routines tho. -
No speech in Cobra's Arc? A mystery tale from Spain...I once downloaded CsA - probably from some Spanish retrogaming website - in TAP format. While I usually discard TAP files in favor of TZX ones as soo…
... Spain. I've seen several text adventures in both the Speccy and ... -
"The A Team adventure" mickey take Hi, I've been trying to track this down for years... does anyone remember a mickey take article in one of the Spectrum mags relating to a text adve…
... crapness for each major genre. Text adventures were satirized with an A ... -
GB Max SoftwareEllo chums... I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about GB Max Software? Specifically, if they have a list of games "by" them, and what they were…
... the tape magazines specialized in text adventures which published both C64 and ... -
Best adventures (from 2 points of view)Allright, adventurers, I'd like your advice on what are the best adventures from 2 points of view: 1 - Best plot, atmosphere (i.e. a game where you …
... text adventures without doubt), if you are asking about great text adventures ... asking about the best text adventures I must assume so) ... br />
Several interesting adventures include (IMO):
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Cannot Find That Game. Again!Ok, I thought that game was called Spheroid, but I couldnt see it in the archive. I think its after-1986 game. Black background, greenish obstacles.…
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Mervyn J Estcourt?anyone know what he is doing now and where I can contact him? Programmer of such Speccy classics as 3D Deathchase, Luna Crabs, Full Throttle and Spee…
I never really got into text adventures - perhaps that's a style ... -
The Longest Speccy gameWe've had the best games the worst games what about the longest games :) Which game took u ages to complete either because it was so difficult or jus…
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Captain BloodI have the walkthrough, but I was just wondering: has anyone finished it without it? I mean... how were we supposed to know how to ask the questions?…
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The Longest Speccy gameWe've had the best games the worst games what about the longest games :) Which game took u ages to complete either because it was so difficult or jus…
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AdventuresCan anyone recommend adventure games for the Spectrum? I know I have played a few back in the days (Black Crystal and Greedy Gulch ring a bell), but…
... some other good advice on text adventures:
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Porting game to SpectrumHello, I'm trying to port a few of my homemade adventure games on over to the ZX Spectrum (16 or 48K). My games are available below: [url="http://…
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Playing spectrum games -------------> CareerI got my 1st spectrum in 1984, my most recent only last week from a car boot sale. At around the same time (1984) I was the only person in my junior …
... countless hours I spent playing text adventures. This ability helps me greatly ... -
Can you remember this game?You played a Caveman who had to collect dinosaur eggs whilst hitting a tyrannosarous rex with hammers. I've had a brief look and it definately wasn'…
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Crappy composite/TV signal on grey +2 machineI got a grey +2 machine from eBay a couple of days ago. It's working fine, but both the TV signal and the composite signal taken from the monitor con…
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valhallawheres the valhalla roms on this site??
... . Alternatively, click on "Archive", then "Text Adventures", "V", "Valhalla". Job done!
Best games voting system -The "Best Games" right now shows Spectrum CP/M to be the "best game", when in fact it is not a game. Also isn't there something inherently wrong if…
... only list games (which includes text adventures) this morning. So that's ...Any Windows based Spectrum Progam makersHi. I am looking for a game maker that i can use to make spectrum software. If possible could it not be a code typing in program and Windows based. T…
... will keep you occupied. If text adventures are your cup of tea ...
