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  • Basic or Machine code?Hopefully the correct area of the site to post this question. Anyways, I have got hold of several books on programming my spectrum, and I was wonderi…

    ... least in the realms of text adventures and simple strategy games. Look ...
    Matt_B Matt_B March 2006 Development
  • how many games were available on speccy?Has anyone an estimate to how many games were released on the speccy?

    ... are about 7200 games and text adventures listed on WoS. This includes ...
    Matt_B Matt_B March 2006 Games
  • Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.

    ... czech scene there is many text adventures written in basic

    Fikee Fikee March 2006 Games
  • The Fourth Protocol.I've finally managed to finish it. It has taken me a long time, to say the least... The one thing I don't understand is the end of part 2. How exa…

    ... of those "instant deaths" that text adventures love to give you.
    Jmk Jmk March 2006 Games
  • New TR-DOS GamesI'm really impressed with the quality of "Fire n Ice" - a clear example of what can be achieved on the [modified] hardware. Can anyone recommend any …

    ... 's one of the best text adventures. But it's in Russian ... . If somebody extracted the Russian text, I would make a translation ...
    ant_222 ant_222 April 2006 Games
  • The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain - did anyone ever finish this wretched game!?I've been 'enjoying' (if that's the phrase) the opportunity to replay some of the classic games I remember of yore, including "The Warlock Of Firetop…

    ... edge on any of the text adventures based on them. I don ... almost every command from every text adventure I'd ever played ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek May 2006 Games
  • The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain - did anyone ever finish this wretched game!?I've been 'enjoying' (if that's the phrase) the opportunity to replay some of the classic games I remember of yore, including "The Warlock Of Firetop…

    ... computers, weither they were text adventures or arcade adventures.

    I still ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek May 2006 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…

    ... being drawn, and the associated text. Simple, but I would say ... it's a thought. Graphical text adventures should be simple.
    icabod icabod May 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Games club voting for WC 13/05/06Heres the games for WC 13/05/06

    ... if a Spanish or Russian text adventure came up, I wouldn ... is that, even with spanish text adventures I have troubles like "type ... language, so to play english text ad. is necessary to know ...
    Ivanzx Ivanzx May 2006 Games
  • Legend of the Burgle![url=http://www.electronicfiles.net/files/2139/lotb_scrn01.PNG]Screenshot 1[/url] [url=http://www.electronicfiles.net/files/2139/lotb_scrn02.PNG]Scre…

    ... your productions, for instance the text adventures you have on your site ...
    Shaun.Bebbington Shaun.Bebbington June 2006 Development
  • Graphics Artist wantedHi all I am currently working on a spectrum game for the retro remakes competioton 2006. As its a spectrum game i thought i should post in here. Th…

    Nice choice of game !

    Never was into most text adventures but this game i loved, the fighting sequence was pretty cool back then as well.
    psj3809 psj3809 June 2006 Development
  • I played DSpec on my DSlite!That's right, TheHiVE sent out a few copys of a pre-release version of DSpec and I was one of the luckiest fellers in the world to get one ! I't ver…

    ... 's it like for playing text adventures? If anyone has tried I ... . Reason I ask is some text adventures take a while to draw ... able to play Elite, some text adventures and Renegade on long journeys ...
    yadster yadster July 2006 Emulators
  • I played DSpec on my DSlite!That's right, TheHiVE sent out a few copys of a pre-release version of DSpec and I was one of the luckiest fellers in the world to get one ! I't ver…

    ... is a bit fiddly for text adventures but for me thats a ...
    Bluce_Ree Bluce_Ree July 2006 Emulators
  • We did FPS's so...I thought I'd do a poll to see which adventure games people like. I chose The Longest Journey as I've only played it recently and it's absolutely bri…

    ... the best of the old text adventures for atmosphere. Level 9's ...
    Matt_B Matt_B August 2006 Chit chat
  • Various Games to TradeHi Another list (this time with slightly rarer games =D), I am looking to trade for adventure games e.g. text adventures on 8-bit platforms (infocom…

    ... TRS-80 to PC, both text adventures a la Infocom, Mag Scrolls ... oscure stuff =D) and graphic adventures similar to the Lucasarts/Lucasfilm ...
    Dopey Jack Dopey Jack September 2006 Sales
  • 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…

    I considered re-writing some text adventures for online use. It wouldn' ...
    Lee Fogarty Lee Fogarty September 2006 Games
  • 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…

    ... not only a walkthrough of text adventures, but also a full trace ...
    Daren Daren September 2006 Games
  • Tell The World...What Spectrum game are you playing right now? The world needs to know ... well it probably doesn't, but that shouldn't stop you from letting us know …

    im working my way through the text adventures.

    currently on 'man about the house.'

    (not playing them all, just the ones that appeal to me, and in not in any order.)
    mile mile September 2006 Games
  • So, you think you know your stuff, eh?!?Well, see how well you do with this little quiz at: [url]http://forum.micromart.co.uk/Topic135977-24-1.aspx[/url] Regards, Shaun.

    ... as he didn't do text adventures!! :-D[/FONT]
    [FONT=Courier ...
    CP/M User CP/M User September 2006 Chit chat
  • The Adv. Game I'm Ridiculously Trying To Play Part 1Ok, from now on from time to time I will start playing some adventure games and I will keep a "journal" in the forum about my progression, or, more p…

    Yes, although that moment of satisfaction is oft short lived as you're immediately stuck with another soul destroying and seemingly impossible to solve puzzle. Text adventures were the third highest cause of hair loss in the world back in the Eighties.
    Collie Collie September 2006 Games
  • The Adv. Game I'm Ridiculously Trying To Play Part 1Ok, from now on from time to time I will start playing some adventure games and I will keep a "journal" in the forum about my progression, or, more p…

    ... seemingly impossible to solve puzzle. Text adventures were the third highest cause ... the other common problem with adventures, to progress you sometimes have ...
    udgoverload udgoverload September 2006 Games
  • The Adv. Game I'm Ridiculously Trying To Play Part 1Ok, from now on from time to time I will start playing some adventure games and I will keep a "journal" in the forum about my progression, or, more p…

    ... seemingly impossible to solve puzzle. Text adventures were the third highest cause ... used to load up a text adventure from a magazine tape ... was going to be a text adventure, it usually only took ... there was at least one text adventure that reset the speccy ...
    Vertigo Vertigo October 2006 Games
  • The Adv. Game I'm Ridiculously Trying To Play Part 1Ok, from now on from time to time I will start playing some adventure games and I will keep a "journal" in the forum about my progression, or, more p…

    ... can help, and some PC text adventures were kind enough to let ... thing for me though were adventures were you could die, I ... the tedious paranoia of other adventures.
    udgoverload udgoverload October 2006 Games
  • The Adv. Game I'm Ridiculously Trying To Play Part 1Ok, from now on from time to time I will start playing some adventure games and I will keep a "journal" in the forum about my progression, or, more p…

    Any text adventure game where 'x' or ' ... of thing annoyed me with text adventures. Also some games wouldn't ... and well presented (for a text adventure anyway).
    Collie Collie October 2006 Games
  • The Adv. Game I'm Ridiculously Trying To Play Part 1Ok, from now on from time to time I will start playing some adventure games and I will keep a "journal" in the forum about my progression, or, more p…

    ... first is the fact that text adventures games were all written by ... them to play and enjoy text adventure games.

    They ...
    Dave Fountain Dave Fountain October 2006 Games
  • The Adv. Game I'm Ridiculously Trying To Play Part 1Ok, from now on from time to time I will start playing some adventure games and I will keep a "journal" in the forum about my progression, or, more p…

    ... can help, and some PC text adventures were kind enough to let ... thing for me though were adventures were you could die, I ... the tedious paranoia of other adventures.[/QUOTE]

    i died ...
    mile mile October 2006 Games
  • What was the +2 and +3 keyboard like compared to the 128 and + one?I had a Spectrum 128, which had the infamous plastic-but-spongy keys. It was fine for games where you only had to press a handful of keys repeatedly,…

    ... I was interested in playing text adventures.
    udgoverload udgoverload October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • MIA: Demoniak - Palace Software ?Hi folks, Can anyone prove or disprove the existance of this title on any 8-bit platform ? I'm not sure where the info came to put it in the MIA lis…

    ... ), I believe it was a text adventure.

    It may ... I remember my friend loved text adventures.)

    EDIT
    Erm ...
    Skarpo Skarpo October 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • PSP or GPX2 (or Pocket PC or whatever)?I'm going to get either a PSP or a GPX2 (or a Nintendo DS, or a PocketPC or something), so what are the differences between the PSP, the GPX2 and wha…

    ... exactly as you'd expect, text adventures don't!!!

    For ... , those old LucasArts and Rebellion adventures play extremely well even today ...
    Vampyre Vampyre October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Best-illustrated adventure game?Which Speccy text adventure had the best illustrations? It doesn't matter if they took ages to load, just as long as they were pretty.

    [QUOTE=Daren]The Level 9 adventures like Red Moon and the ... good too, even if the text adventures themselves were a bit basic.
    Rainbird Rich Rainbird Rich November 2006 Games
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