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  • Adventures Inchi! I'm a BIG fan of adventures. I have a huge collection of them on my PC. By this I mean of course, games for Speccy, Amstrad, C64, Atari ST AND …

    ... u are adventure games (or interactive fiction as they seem to call ...
    Arjun Arjun April 2001 Emulators
  • Finally, the saga of Dr. Van Halen is completedJosep Coletas has finished the saga of "Los extraordinarios casos del Dr. Van Halen", A Interactive Fiction Saga [B](in spanish)[/B] with five chapte…

    ... del Dr. Van Halen", A Interactive Fiction Saga [B](in spanish)[/B ...
    cid cid August 2005 Announcements
  • Sage - 'Spectrum Adventure Game Enthusiasts' Fanzine Coming SoonGreetings. :grin: Just a quick post to let you all know that the first issue of 'SAGE' will be available for purchase ( or due to serious advice it…

    ... page, thoughts or views on interactive fiction, please email us at ' [email ...
    Sage Master Sage Master October 2006 Announcements
  • New Spectrum game - On Reflection"On Reflection" has been my pet project for the last two years or so. My initial idea was to try to create a Spectrum adventure which was a bit more …

    ... a bit more like modern 'interactive fiction', and also something which didn ... -world setting (with a science-fiction bent to spice things up ...
    Lee Tonks Lee Tonks December 2007 Games
  • [Announce] InPAWS 1 RC1InPAWS is a tool (compiler) to make interactive fiction for the ZX Spectrum, using the Gilsoft's Professional Adventure Writing System database struc…

    ... a tool (compiler) to make interactive fiction for the ZX
    Spectrum ...
    Mastodon Mastodon February 2009 Development
  • Frotz on Ipod TouchJust downloaded it for my I-Pod touch. Pretty cool, plus there's about 20 to 30 free games bundled with it. Haven't played interactive fiction since…

    ... .

    Haven't played interactive fiction since my speccy days and ... I've got a portable interactive fiction machine in my pocket.
    BigBadMick BigBadMick October 2009 Chit chat
  • KnightOrc Novella link is deadThe link to the KnightOrc novella as given by infoseek is dead. The novellas are available in HTML format from the [URL="http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgam…

    ... .tads.org/viewgame?id=laiyfhqfopw0x9r6"]Interactive Fiction Database[/URL] and [URL="http ...
    Arjun Arjun March 2010 Infoseek database
  • "Get Lamp" DocumentaryOkay, so this is not purely Speccy related but it will, I'm sure, be of interest to lots of people here... [I]Get Lamp,[/I] an independent document…

    ... documentary about the text adventure/Interactive Fiction genre, has just been released ...
    ccowley ccowley July 2010 Announcements
  • Infocom AdventuresWas a version of the ZIP interpreter ever ported to the ZX Spectrum to allow you to play all of the Infocom adventures ? It seems as though this cou…

    ... the infocom adventures (and other interactive fiction compatible with the ZIP interpreter ...
    rwap rwap December 2010 Development
  • 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…

    ... my *free* text adventure creator; interactive fiction project for Windows 98/2000 ... am sharing free with the Interactive Fiction community at large.
    TAB ...
    catventure catventure May 2011 Games
  • Get Lamp InterviewsJason Scott, author of the interactive fiction documentary "GET LAMP" has posted unused footage from interviews that were not published in the commer…

    Jason Scott, author of the interactive fiction documentary "GET LAMP" has posted ...
    catventure catventure July 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Early thoughts about creating a text adventureSo I always wanted to create my own ZX Spectrum text adventure. I tried looking at PAWs and GAC, but frankly I'm probably too stupid to use them. I…

    ... of the minor, or larger, interactive fiction creators for Windows have that ...
    dakidski dakidski December 2014 Development
  • adventure gamesI always liked text adventures and the speccy had loads,my favourites were Robin of sherwood,,Espionage island,,emerald isle,,dracula,,secret of st b…

    ... they use now? Oh yeah - "Interactive Fiction". [img]/__forums/images/smiles/icon_biggrin ...
    GeeKay GeeKay January 2002 Games
  • adventure gamesI always liked text adventures and the speccy had loads,my favourites were Robin of sherwood,,Espionage island,,emerald isle,,dracula,,secret of st b…

    ... -only affairs, there is the Interactive Fiction (old wine in new bottle ...
    Arjun Arjun January 2002 Games
  • Making a speccy-like text-adventure for WindowsWell, I downloaded an adventure creator for Windows 95/98 from: [url]www.adrift.org.uk[/url] and I just thought I'd recommend it, just in case any …

    ... program for creating adventure games ("interactive fiction", as ADRIFT refers to it ... ". There's a whole interactive fiction section, which includes many links ...
    Michael McLarnon Michael McLarnon August 2001 Games
  • Jinxter (Inside the box)I noticed the Your Sinclair review of Jinxter [url="http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/jinxter.htm"]http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/jinxter.htm[/url] …

    ... is already available at the Interactive Fiction archive: [url="http://ifarchive.biff ...
    Ed Ed July 2003 MIA/STP/SDP
  • infocom gamesi was looking at the text adventure achive and can't beleive that infocom did'nt release any games for the speccy. i thought they would've at least h…

    Photopia is interactive fiction at its best. It's ...
    Arjun Arjun February 2004 Games
  • Text-based Adventure GamesI really got into these after playing "The Hobbit" on the Speccy. I really enjoyed the Level 9 games: Colossal Adventure, Adventure Quest, Dungeon …

    ... 't you know the IF (Interactive Fiction) scene? :)

    [url="http ...
    na_th_an na_th_an July 2004 Games
  • Text-based Adventure GamesI really got into these after playing "The Hobbit" on the Speccy. I really enjoyed the Level 9 games: Colossal Adventure, Adventure Quest, Dungeon …

    ... 't you know the IF (Interactive Fiction) scene? :)


    I ...
    The_Sentinel The_Sentinel July 2004 Games
  • Games that are impossible to complete due to bugs!I'm trying to compile a list of Speccy games that cannot be completed because of a bug (or simply bad programming)! Here's a few... [B]Frankie Goes …

    There was an spanish interactive fiction (text adventure) game called "Cozumel" ...
    cid cid February 2005 Games
  • How old r u pple?I'm just askin' to make sure I'm the youngest Speccy player :) BTW I'm 15. Try to beat that, suckas :)

    on a slightly relateed topic:

    i was just called "over the hill" in work because i was going on about the virtues of text adventures (interactive fiction, hah!)...

    bloody kids
    liamenikufesin liamenikufesin May 2005 Chit chat
  • 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 …

    ... to be more like modern 'interactive fiction' - see Colin Woodcock's excellent ...
    Lee Tonks Lee Tonks May 2005 Games
  • Saving BASIC code as CODE... can't start programHi guys! I'm trying to create an adventure game for the Speccy in BASIC, called The Legend Of The Red Dragon. I'm using the excellent BASin to code…

    ... , if we are talking about Interactive Fiction.


    [ This Message ...
    na_th_an na_th_an June 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • ANNOUNCE: BASin Release 12 ready for downloadWell, after a rather large break, BASin's latest incarnation is ready for public use. Probably. BASin is a Sinclair Spectrum development environme…

    ... Basin to write my next interactive fiction masterwork (don't worry, it ...
    Rockersuke Moroboshi Rockersuke Moroboshi July 2005 Emulators
  • Good older PC games?For the past few years I've not played too many PC games, sticking mainly to consoles, and only really using my PC for emulators and the net. Anyway,…

    ... />
    Also check out some interactive fiction games , especially "Babel" by Ian ...
    Arjun Arjun August 2005 Chit chat
  • Finally, the saga of Dr. Van Halen is completedJosep Coletas has finished the saga of "Los extraordinarios casos del Dr. Van Halen", A Interactive Fiction Saga [B](in spanish)[/B] with five chapte…

    ... del Dr. Van Halen", A Interactive Fiction Saga [B](in spanish)[/B ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler August 2005 Announcements
  • New ZX Adventure Club Game - First Half of NovemberAnd starting today it's: Just in time for Hallowe'en :) [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Scapeghost$&pub=^Level+9+Computin…

    "Surprise, surprise".

    The definition "interactive fiction" really applies to this one.
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel November 2005 Games
  • PAWS & GAC, still being used?Back in the day when i was a teenager i wrote many a text adventure on my 128K + using both PAWS and GAC, i really wished id kept them now. On one oc…

    ... that there are new spanish Interactive Fiction Games for ZX spectrum (I ...
    cid cid December 2005 Games
  • YSRnRY TV Prog: 1986 chapter OUT NOW!The 1986 chapter of the documentary is OUT NOW! Watch as the Speccy world changes forever with the arrival of the 128k machines! See Sinclair Researc…

    ... ) should treat them more as interactive fiction and dramatise the storylines using ...
    NickH NickH May 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • GacDid anybody at WOS write a good adveture with GAC? I spent hours making adventures with it and thought it was a really good product and nearly finish…

    I tried the SAM Adventure System.

    And you thought typing in 48k BASIC programs was fiddly...

    Interactive fiction is hard to do well, no matter what you use, though.
    NickH NickH June 2006 Games
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