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GAC, PAW or The Quill?Which of the above adventure game writing software would you recommend in terms of user friendliness? What are the strengths and weaknesses of each …
... there a +3 disk version of PAW which doesn't require ... at the first 4 letters of each word like "TAKE SWOR ... possible to produce that kind of adventure with PAW, incidentally. If you ... possible to just ignore all of the extra features entirely. -
GAC, PAW or The Quill?Which of the above adventure game writing software would you recommend in terms of user friendliness? What are the strengths and weaknesses of each …
... possible to produce that kind of adventure with PAW, incidentally. If ... possible to just ignore all of the extra features entirely.[/QUOTE ... s amazing how a lot of people who wrote text ... crack at[/URL]. The combination of an extensive map, character interaction ... -
maths questionNB this will probably show what a tragically low level understanding of maths I have, but hey ho :-) for some reason the other day I suddenly remem…
... as a sum of powers of x. Each power of x: 1, ... talk about "looking at the spectrum" of some signal what they are ... as an infinite summation of sine waves of different frequencies. The ... compute the trig functions. The Spectrum rom uses a Chebyshev series ... -
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.I gather that the folktronica musician Sam Duckworth's stage name 'Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly' was inspired by a Spectrum game (one of the Batman title…
Any band named after my experiences of adventure games would be called:
[b]F**k.[/b][i] I don't know how to f**k.[/i] -
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.I gather that the folktronica musician Sam Duckworth's stage name 'Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly' was inspired by a Spectrum game (one of the Batman title…
[QUOTE=MattLamb;792785]Any band named after my experiences of adventure games would be called:
[B]F**k.[/B][I] I don't know how to f**k.[/I][/QUOTE]
or F**k. Mary is not amused! *slap* -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... as being the weakest of all 8bit machines. It ... the window in favour of putting a SID tune ... - or promise a reward of adventure. Playing on a C64 for ... colour restrictions, and many of its titles are able ... have a decent selection of games worth playing, and ... -
Clive Sinclair and Retro Computers announce the Sinclair ZX Spectrum VegaAt last! The Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega! Read all about it, see the videos and bid for one of the first 1000 limited edition Vegas! [URL="https://w…
... Spectrum again with official endorsement but I think it misses some of ... the key points of the 80s computer ... -
1985-2015.A topic where we can review games released on the Speccy 30 years ago, or, anyway, talk about that year.
... very bad conversion for the Spectrum of a great game (the C64 ... -
Zorro[CENTER][IMG]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/load/z/gif/Zorro.gif[/IMG][IMG]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cg…
... , on DS emu during one of my periodic plays in the ... BL but with the addition of adventure parts like using objects. I ... that it has some elements of espionage -
What (Speccy) game are you currently playing ?(Quite a few threads on what youre listening to, watching etc) What Speccy game are you currently playing ? After playing a LOT of Invasion of the …
... Speccy game.
CATACOMBS OF BALACHOR
caught my ... 't have a huge amount of substance. Interesting it is very ... much more complex gameplay, mixed of adventure, arcade maze, with a very ... -
Basic SAVE and ZX Printer supportIs there a list of emulators that support any of these two features (basic SAVE and print to printer port)? Is there a emulator comparison some wh…
Pfft. Where's your sense of adventure? :)
I had to reverse engineer everything the ROM did (and the formats that data is stored in memory) in order to create BASin... This should be, as I said, trivial :p
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Games you envied on other systems (but were never converted to the Spectrum)I will admit it: there were times when I considered getting a Commodore 64. Not because I didn't love the Spectrum, but because Llamasoft games almos…
... wish it was on the Spectrum". Of course, it never appeared but ... I now own originals of the BBC and C64 version ... -
Clones that you like more than the originalI mean you think its more playable than the original. Of course if it does improve other aspects of the game then its welcome. I will start with D…
... best clone, with that 'touch' of adventure.
[img]http://www ... -
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…
... puzzles... THAT is the stuff of adventure games, pure and simple ... advice/input/programming guidance from adventure game writers...
of some of the later pointers ... thread is reminding me of the DoubleDragon thread from ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... a "cut down" ZX Spectrum 128k +2.The rough edges ... inside the "cut down" ZX Spectrum 128k +2 will not be ... greater flexibility and "undoabilty" (of the proposed new ideas) worth ... an otherwise "perfectly innocent" ZX Spectrum? Of course , after all this time ... -
Interview with writer of Atari's E.T.Howard Scott Warshaw made the scapegoat for rushed game caused by crazy deadlines: [url="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35560458"]The man who made…
I think the collapse of the Cart rage industry ... the 2600 was way out of step with technological developments ... wrong I have a lot of love for the 2600 ... 'd had a few rounds of centipede, or milipede.
... still get my my Spectrum of Atari ST and PlayStation. -
machines you've owned and favourite games on each?Just reminiscing about games of the past - speccie and beyond - and the pleasure they have brought. Here is my list of my ownership of machines and …
Ah yes, the Spectrum of course... I find it too difficult to pick just one! Maybe I just haven't found it yet -
machines you've owned and favourite games on each?Just reminiscing about games of the past - speccie and beyond - and the pleasure they have brought. Here is my list of my ownership of machines and …
[quote="textvoyage;855340"]Ah yes, the Spectrum of course... I find it too difficult to pick just one! Maybe I just haven't found it yet[/quote]
...Nicely squirmed..! :)) -
machines you've owned and favourite games on each?Just reminiscing about games of the past - speccie and beyond - and the pleasure they have brought. Here is my list of my ownership of machines and …
... ="textvoyage;855340"]Ah yes, the Spectrum of course... I find it too ... most of us I guess the Spectrum is the favorite out of all ... the systems and that could mean a huge list of ... -
Competition time - design a WoS logoHello, all.. As part of the redesign, we would like to have new logos for use in Social Media/links and also in the forum/site headers. The spe…
... letters that mean nothing outside of people in the know.[/ ... have a clue what "World of Spectrum" means?
[b][ ... name like "World of Spectrum", I am still of the view that ... a really small "World of Spectrum".
Of course, you, as well ... -
Competition time - design a WoS logoHello, all.. As part of the redesign, we would like to have new logos for use in Social Media/links and also in the forum/site headers. The spe…
... letters that mean nothing outside of people in the know.[/ ... have a clue what "World of Spectrum" means?
[b][ ... name like "World of Spectrum", I am still of the view that ... a really small "World of Spectrum".
Of course, you, as well ... -
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…
Was thinking today it might be fun to remake an existing Spectrum text adventure (Quill or PAW game)
But which one to have a go at...?
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Suggestion for ZX Uno improvementsI really enjoy my ZX Uno, however, I do see some improvements that I think could be made to the Uno. 1) When you press CTRL-ALT-Backspace or when …
... implemented in the core ZX Spectrum and Master System.
The pentagon and Spectrum +2 are included in the ... as this as a real Spectrum. Of course this ROM also accepts ... , nor the original ROM spectrum (be that of Andrew Owen is GPL ... -
Shadow Gangs, 80's arcade inspired ninja game.Hi Everyone; It's my first post here and I would like to introduce a new game in the making, in an effort to give it as much visibility as possibl…
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art and of higher quality.
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-A lot of special effects will be added ... like the game because of lack of diversity, there will be ... all types of hostages, some
elements of adventure/exploration too like ... -
Beyond Lisbon...... You can find a bunch of great stuff to do and see in Portugal. :-) That is why me and my wife have been creating a kind of database for things ma…
Well there is a broad SPECTRUM of activities to do in the country :)) -
Need some help repairing an issue 3 spectrumI am looking for some help repairing an issue 3 speccy, here's what I tried so far. The speccy is not booting up correctly, when using the diagnos…
... all seems ok, be spectrum won't boot because ... In a 16k/48k ZX Spectrum, of these, only /RESET is ... supply or part of the network of tracks that carry ... is intermittently shorting one of these out, or the ... mean that the resistance of an electrical conductor has ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... reversal or turn around of the cables orientation to ... ground" . The "ground" (for signals) of Opus is connected with this ... no problems with a 48k Spectrum . Of course this "independent powering" ... good , the independent powering of the floppy drives appears to ... -
'computer compatible' tape recorders?I have seen these a couple of times for sale, but what exactly do they do (differently form the regular type) ? [URL=http://s1063.photobucket.com/…
A slightly less destructive approach would be to sample the same tape with and without "computer mode" and compare the frequency spectrum of both (probably with a music cassette so it has a wider range of frequencies) -
Abersoft Adventure 1This may not be of interest to anyone but me, but I've taken a quick look at Abersoft's Adventure 1, and written up the internal database format [url…
I've already liked the post, but I thougt I come back here to say that the articles you've linked are very interesting...
I might even cosider doing my own version of Adventure too. -
Abersoft Adventure 1This may not be of interest to anyone but me, but I've taken a quick look at Abersoft's Adventure 1, and written up the internal database format [url…
... cosider doing my own version of Adventure too.[/quote]
... has some long sentences! One of the longer (not longest) messages ... bytes per word.
23K of free memory was only enough ... /> and here is an example of the longest room description in ...
