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  • Due to rampant voting abuse for this gameI tried voting on La Abadia del Crimen for the first time in my life and got this message. The reason being its too high in the list of best games a…

    ... my blog), Wizzball and many text adventures (Gremlins, [B]Alice in Wonderland ...
    ewgf ewgf July 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Czech compilations not listed on Infoseek"Krtek a auticko": [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002774[/url] and "bad dream": [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseeki…

    ... 2, Indiana Jones I-III text adventures) and some AY demos. after ...
    Fikee Fikee July 2009 Infoseek database
  • Playtester WantedHi all As development of [B]Harry Potter Adventure[/B] goes on, determined to get it done so it can feature in the final [I]Spectrum Games Bible [/I…

    ... version of Resident Evil but text adventures on a low-tech machine ...
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 July 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Playtester WantedHi all As development of [B]Harry Potter Adventure[/B] goes on, determined to get it done so it can feature in the final [I]Spectrum Games Bible [/I…

    ... version of Resident Evil but text adventures on a low-tech machine ...
    mile mile July 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • La Abadia Del Crimea - The definitive pollOn a scale of 1 to 10, vote on the score you think LADC deserves. Try and be honest at it while you can. ;) EDIT: This poll is effective for 2 week…

    ... are all arcade adventures. This feels more like a text adventure with ... an isometric display. But in text adventures you quickly moved around and ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat August 2009 Games
  • Preservation via scansHi. I am interested in game preservation (data dumps and scans). I am aware of the Spectrum Instructions Project and Spectrum Inlay Preservation pro…

    ... , where possible. Transcribing the instructions into text, as advocated by the Spectrum ...
    mheide mheide August 2009 Support files
  • Death or Glory (adventure)Anyone got an idea on how to get beyond the first two locations in [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Death+or+Glory$&pub=^Drea…

    ... of reminding me how hateful text adventures could be. Anyway:

    JamesW JamesW August 2009 Games
  • What do you want from Spectrum 2.0?Hopefully most people here are aware of [url=http://spectrum20.org/]Spectrum 2.0[/url], my site for reviews and non-anonymous voting on Spectrum game…

    ... the top 200 games (including text adventures) in WoS's scoring system ...
    Spector Spector August 2009 Games
  • Missing Rom on ebay??Advert says its missing but it looks like its in the archive to me... [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SHADOW-OF-THE-UNICORN-ZX-SPECTRUM-48K-MISSING-ROM_W…

    ... buggered up all the graphics and inserted gratuitous graphics into the novella prior ...
    chev chev August 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Missing Rom on ebay??Advert says its missing but it looks like its in the archive to me... [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SHADOW-OF-THE-UNICORN-ZX-SPECTRUM-48K-MISSING-ROM_W…

    ... buggered up all the graphics and inserted gratuitous graphics into the novella prior ...
    Graz Graz August 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Your views on: Play It Again Sam...... just curious to see what people think really. I've been toying with the idea of making a text adventure in [I]PAW[/I] (it'd be my first), and I t…

    Go for it! The more text adventures, the better! Also, the more 'unofficial' you make it, the better your chances of getting it published. There's a distinct lack of new real-media text games. ;)

    I've still got part 2 of my one to finish.
    Graz Graz November 2009 Games
  • 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…

    Very cool! Village is great.

    Would be great to know conversion process. If this can be scaled by drawing routine, even better (getting closer to some object to examine in detail). It has great potential not only for text adventures.
    omega omega November 2009 Development
  • Monkey Island On Speccy...I would love to see Monkey Island on the speccy...think it can be done...not as much detail or graphics...but along the same story lines.... What ot…

    ... game couldn't be a text adventure?

    the game ... a sort of response to text adventures, so people engaged directly with ... it could work as a text adventure with only sixteen verbs ...
    Danforth Danforth December 2009 New game ideas
  • Monkey Island On Speccy...I would love to see Monkey Island on the speccy...think it can be done...not as much detail or graphics...but along the same story lines.... What ot…

    ... a sort of response to text adventures, so people engaged directly with ... it could work as a text adventure with only sixteen ... really the problem of rubbish text adventure with single response ... sounds about right for most text adventures. You could have an on ...
    mile mile December 2009 New game ideas
  • forget top 10 and top 100 .... what IS legendary status ?games that go beyond the top 100.. much like say armalyte+wizzball on c64 and rescue on fractulus on atari 8 bit... games that were good BUT basic…

    ... , as a result, most atmospheric) text adventures, and having AMAZING packaging/load ...
    Lebowsk1 Lebowsk1 December 2009 Games
  • Game of the decade?Hi all, As this decade is fast drawing to a close at an astonishing rate of one day per day, I'm hoping to do a major retrospective of 'the naughtie…

    ... =Jumping Stack;349422]
    In text adventures, Lee Tonk's game On ...
    Lee Tonks Lee Tonks December 2009 Games
  • Most Disappointing Budget Game?I've completed my ten now ([URL="http://jdanddiet.blogspot.com/2010/02/spectrum-budget-games-special-part-2.html"]http://jdanddiet.blogspot.com/2010/…

    Which was the crappest label for budget games? I seem to remember Players not being too great , and Arctic had a few dire efforts (although their text adventures were quiite good). Possibly Americana?
    Dwayne Dibley Dwayne Dibley February 2010 Games
  • Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …

    ... provocative dialog going concerning the graphics....

    ...but its not ... converting the array and tile graphics into a binary/and assembly form ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil February 2010 Development
  • Character scrollingOk, first I'd like to say that I'm not looking for a complete routine (but that might help) because I am hoping to write it myself and learn a bit mo…

    ... , as needed, draw any new graphics into the space cleared at the ...
    csmith csmith February 2010 Development
  • Films that would make good speccy games.The thread about converting new games to the speccy got me thinking, what movies would make good speccy games? I re-watched 'Scum' on ITV2 last nigh…

    ... , I take that back, Eastenders!!! ... text adventure ... absolutely noooo illustrations whatsoever ... ... but [I]not[/I] as text adventures!

    EDIT2
    And ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman February 2010 New game ideas
  • Game PsychologyAn article on game design, may be of interest to some here. [url]http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3085/behavioral_game_design.php?page=1[/url]

    ... /> Also I saw a few text/ adventures which gave the hint of ...
    NRA NRA March 2010 New game ideas
  • some Russian CorrectionsI've looking recently through Russian titles on WOS and here are some corrections and extra info: [B]Business War[/B] [url]http://www.worldofspectru…

    ... noted this in my long text files to Martijn. :)

    text adventures, where I may not have ...
    Alarm Alarm April 2010 Infoseek database
  • Recommendation for easy-ish graphic adventure?Was a c64 owner back in the day - but I've a soft spot for the old speccy. I've recenty downloaded the speccyMania gamebase db (great work :-) ) and…

    ... 's one of the few text adventures I've managed to finish ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek April 2010 Games
  • Recommendation for easy-ish graphic adventure?Was a c64 owner back in the day - but I've a soft spot for the old speccy. I've recenty downloaded the speccyMania gamebase db (great work :-) ) and…

    ... games , but for the best text adventures , you really need to play ...
    Dwayne Dibley Dwayne Dibley April 2010 Games
  • 48k titles you wished had AY tunesFollowing the GAMES for Spectrum48+AY_interface & Paperboy remake threads, it's got me thinking about those games that were lacking either a 128k mod…

    ... support would also be text adventures and graphic/text adventures. There could be sound ...
    Alien 8 Alien 8 April 2010 Games
  • Thinking of making a "Wicker Man" text adventureI introduced my friend to the wonderful world of Speccy text adventures the other night, after she reminded me she liked D+D/MMORPGs; so we played an…

    Hurry up! :p

    I've been playing numerous other text adventures this morning after reading this thread.

    I anticipate the arrival with itchy sweaty palms :D
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek April 2010 New game ideas
  • Thinking of making a "Wicker Man" text adventureI introduced my friend to the wonderful world of Speccy text adventures the other night, after she reminded me she liked D+D/MMORPGs; so we played an…

    ... precise commands (a mainstay of text adventures, but I'm trying to ...
    The Lone Magpie The Lone Magpie April 2010 New game ideas
  • Thinking of making a "Wicker Man" text adventureI introduced my friend to the wonderful world of Speccy text adventures the other night, after she reminded me she liked D+D/MMORPGs; so we played an…

    the english language isn't best suited to text adventures. :)
    mile mile April 2010 New game ideas
  • Thinking of making a "Wicker Man" text adventureI introduced my friend to the wonderful world of Speccy text adventures the other night, after she reminded me she liked D+D/MMORPGs; so we played an…

    ... isn't best suited to text adventures. :)[/QUOTE]

    Probably why ... most of the adventures in the archive are in ...
    The Lone Magpie The Lone Magpie April 2010 New game ideas
  • The official Pandora handheld threadHas anyone here got a Pandora yet? If so, what do you think of it? Is it as comfortable to hold and use as we're all hoping? What is the screen like …

    ... fine for occasional or slow text entry (I play a lot ... on the PSP, and the text entry is fine), but yes ... is much better. Imagine playing text adventures on the PSP, you'd ...
    ewgf ewgf May 2010 Chit chat
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