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Adventure Books....Anybody remember the books where you just copied the program language word for word..and play the adventure game after? It was when I was a kid...I …
Yes, there were plenty of type-in adventure books for the speccy. Some ... sounds like the one in New Adventure Systems for the Spectrum ... tricks in BASIC.
You'll find some of the ... programs from that book in the type-ins section of the ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... attracted even approximately same number of players."
of creativity out of the process. ... universe" kind of philosophy. Some amazing adventure games could' ... any other kind of work). In fact it's ... still be able to type in a new sub-routine ... -
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.
... would have to be one of the Adventure International titles: Gremlins, ... that you can type in, and it's obviously of the same lineage ... get on the Spectrum in terms of graphics adventures and there ... />
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Old vs NewApologies if this is a repeat of an old thread. Who thinks what is best? Old 8-bit games or today's PC titles? I would have to go for the old titles…
... in 3D is light years ahead of the 8/16 bit efforts in ... terms of playability ... , or BiPlanes type games or some of those Flash/Java ... of Duty`s mint, as is Colin McCrae 2... Little Big Adventure ... last two aren`t in 3D. It`s 1st ... -
Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... meets Cybernoid with a bit of adventure thrown in.
Also been ... possible to make one of the hair dryer type looking guns(#98 ... ) to fire down (or up) instead of ... is tile, 2nd byte is type.
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Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... meets Cybernoid with a bit of adventure thrown in.
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Please help me find a spectrum book!! :)Dear all I'm new to this forum but am a long time spectrum lover. I cut my programming teeth on the speccy years ago, and have written emulators and…
... I recall having this book of "type in" adventure games, now I can't ... was something about being locked in school at night and you ... spectrum" by Clive Gifford? Shot in the dark really... -
Most difficult game to playThanks to Rickard's thread about Skulduggery (or however they wanted to interpret the English language) where you had to not only control your charac…
Knightmare. Arcade adventure where you also have to type in commands - [i]including throwing ... flick through the menu of verbs and nouns, in the meantime the ... -
WHO is in control of the DOCTORWhen i was a little un watching Dr Who Pertwee then Baker, i always thought that the DR was never in control of where the Tardis materialised, back i…
... the DR was never in control of where the Tardis materialised ... Doctor series he is in total control of where the Tardis ... it like that. In one of the Virgin New Adventure books (I think ... in the Eccleston stories, and I hate too the "mad inventor" type ... -
Computer SpacegamesBook Title: [B][URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000089"]Computer Spacegames[/URL][/B] Authors: [B]Daniel Isaaman & Jenny Tyler…
... "gravity= ";g
70 print "type in force"
80 for c ... eaten one"
280 print "of your group"
290 goto ... "
350 print "killed one of your group"
360 let ... /> [CODE]
10 print "death valley"
20 let s=0 ... -
don't want to play it type of gamesive never got on well with flight sims strategy games (rts etc) space games such as elite games such as the sentinel they normally have way too man…
... at Sabrewulf/Attic Attac type of arcade adventure games. Thus I've ... never managed to progress very far in ... JSW, Wally adventure games, Magic Knight ... I discovered these games in my emulation days rather than ... -
a game for anyone bored...pick a game at random from the archive using the random seeking link, and post what comes up...and post the gamescreen as well if possible [url]http…
... /> "the jade necklace". never heard of it. some type in adventure. -
Final issues of weekly mags?I'm trying to determine the number of issues of the three main weekly computer mags of the Spectrum era. I've many gaps in my collection of these thr…
... 't have any issues of Computer Shopper or New ... ending (publication, Sinclair coverage, type-in listings) dates remains as yet ... there were some out of sequence. In the rather splendid programs ... of Bagdad has Genre = Utility, whereas it should be Arcade: Adventure ... -
Final issues of weekly mags?I'm trying to determine the number of issues of the three main weekly computer mags of the Spectrum era. I've many gaps in my collection of these thr…
... about ending (publication, Sinclair coverage, type-in listings) dates remains as yet ... Sceptre of Bagdad has Genre = Utility, whereas it should be Arcade: Adventure ... .
[/quote]Sceptre of Bagdad glitch noted - Many ... -
Level9 Adventure GraphicsI have been developing a windows based adventure creating tool, which at the end of it all, creates a spectrum .tap file. Its a while off being finis…
... of Magik, etc - *every* location had a picture, plus you could type ... stuff in as it was drawing ... photocopy me loads of copies of blank pages of "adventure maps", if you ... Along with scanking me loads of duracells for my Invader 1000 ... -
Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…
Request for fans of Adventure games !
I would ... adventures in the books, if theres any fans of these type of games and ... like to do a review of several adventure games which arent listed ... -
Blimey! Buy a used console games and you might have to pay the s/w house to play it!From: [URL]http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/11/10/capps-we-really-need-to-make-strides-against-the-secondhand-market/[/URL] [COLOR=blue]"Epic…
... ever play Space Station: Silicon Valley, Beetle Adventure Racing.
... of this thread, all of the games I've mentioned in ... this post have *lots* of replayability. Something ... was good too, lots of exploring and tracks to discover ... -
CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …
... of writing a crap game designer/generator. Basically, you'd type in ... a number (or even leave this activity in the hands of ... this has been something of a hallmark of this year's ... game creators, we have text adventure creators, platform game creators ... -
Splattr - gone from top 100 and tips please!Hi guys Splattr seems to have gone from the top 100 voted on this site? Anyone know why? And on the demo, I cannot work out what causes the loss o…
... wasnt a fan of adventure games, Lords of midnight i was ... without vandals -- within reason of course -- that's ... to see for myself. In fact, I said ... (for some value of "equal") number of votes for the ... other side. That just leads to Abadia-type ... -
The best ... beginning with "F"Name (in your opinion) your "Best game beginning with [A to Z, one letter per post]". So, for the letter "F", which do you think are the: [B]Best…
... Football Manager is one of my all-time favorite ... and lots of full weekends in front of the spectrum ...
[B]Best text adventure:[/B] I can't seem ... br /> [B]Best graphics (in a game):[/B] Fairlight II ... of the 90s. Wargames are still today my favorite game type ... -
The best ... beginning with "H"Name (in your opinion) your "Best game beginning with [A to Z, one letter per post]". So, for the letter "H", which do you think are the: [B]Best ga…
... conventional text adventure by any means, but you do type in the commands ... logically mapped with a minimum of effort.
Best ... complex tune with great use of counterpoint. I believe this was ... [B]Heartland[/B] - Great piece of artwork; it didn't give ... -
Unoriginal Unimaginative UnplayableOK, never mind all those great games, what were the worst? Keep it to games you (or someone you know) actually paid money for back in the days when 8…
... ]. It's a blatant ripoff of Donkey Kong with atrocious graphics ... Kong might be a relative of a type-in game from a magazine ... a bunch of type ins. I got fed up with adventure games that ... so I got tired of stuff like Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle within ... -
Bernie Duggs Is Here!Come on Doug! Show your face!
... up, which is a bit of a long shot: could it ... that you were in any way responsible for the type-in adventure [URL="http ... [/URL]?
The article talks of a Dougie Bern (probably ze ... pronunziazion) and I immediately thought of your name when reading it. -
Bernie Duggs Is Here!Come on Doug! Show your face!
... were in any way responsible for the type-in adventure The article talks of a ... pronunziazion) and I immediately thought of your name when reading it ... ridiculous coincidence, eh?
Type-in game? BASIC? Come on ... I ... -
Your best Type-ins gamesType-ins games bring me great memories. A whole evening typing a program from a magazine, after some hours I typed RUN and... an error message! After…
... elected as the head of a tribe and must ...
Warrior Mage (New Adventure Systems for your Spectrum by ... .
Underground Adventure (Exploring adventures on the spectrum ... A nice long text adventure written better than most other type-in adventures! -
Tie-ins with little resemblance to their source... or series, book, whatever. Some tie-ins just didn't have a lot in common with what they were based on. I got thinking of this when I saw [b]Cobr…
... proper Fighting Fantasy-style adventure; although Citadel of Chaos, which was ... arcade adventure with Munster sprites, not much in the way of ... not much more than of mediocre type-in quality; but on checking ... is preceded by an adventure section, which might be ... -
Bram Stoker's Dracula - the test adventure: Hard or what??Hi guys, this is a great website. Without the thoughtful people who posted the scanned magazine walkthrough guides for the above-mentioned game, I wo…
... agree that part of the 'fun' of solving maze type problems is drawing ... out of me (or Harker I should say) thereby ending the adventure ... wants us to type should not be the puzzle, in my opinion ... adventure. Like I said , it's ahead of it's time in respect of ... -
ID Anthology for sale or swapHi all. Before I pop this up on ebay I thought I'd ask in here as I'm told this is quite a sought after... thingy. It's the ID Anthology collection …
... after... Interested in parting with you're speccy copy of 'The Tripods ... . I think that was in a collection of randomness that I got ... 't even tell you what type of game it was (but I ... be an adventure, possibly type in, I remember a few games in cases like ... -
Games where you had no idea what you were supposed to do... but played anyway.Whilst browsing the archive for something new to play, I came across Tir Na Nog, which prompted the above question. I had Tir Na Nog as part of the …
... =STeaM;354739]I had a type in text adventure, which had simple blocky ... ".
You start off in a room with nothing but ... a C16 text adventure (sorry), where you started off in bed. I ... tried absolutely everything and could not move out of ...
