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Anthony Colbert, artist for YS Adventures, RIP (belatedly)I've been toiling away at my "Wicker Woman" text adventure game lately, which has also involved working on a cassette cover for it. After a few unsuc…
... away at my "Wicker Woman" text adventure game lately, which has also ... stopped me glossing over the adventure section in YS back in ... -
iXpectrum 1.1 added touch keyboard and ULAplus support.Hi, a new release for iXpectrum. ;) I added a touch keyboard in landscape and portrait mode. I think it is very usable and let you play text adventu…
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Adventures with music?Does anybody know off the top of their head if there were any text adventure games with background music? I can't think of any but I wasn't a big adv…
Does anybody know off the top of their head if there were any text adventure games with background music? I can't think of any but I wasn't a big adventurer in my old Spectrum days.. -
Balfron the BraveHas anyone heard of a game called Balfron the Brave that came out in around 1983/1984? I remember playing in as a child but on a tape that my dad's f…
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Smugglers CoveSmugglers Cove was a text adventure by Quicksilva and also happens to have been the first game that my mother bought for me for the Spectrum. Anyway…
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"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…
... ] an independent documentary about the text adventure/Interactive Fiction genre, has just ... of the biggest names in text adventures from Don Woods, through ... -
WoS - Site Down after some clicksI don't know where I can post this Thread since there is no Discussion for WoS Site itself. I posted here because there is no other place I find more…
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Satan by NCF SoftMartijn, this game is only for 128K. (Text adventure using Paws) Cheers!
Martijn, this game is only for 128K. (Text adventure using Paws)
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An unreleased game discovered: Super L?pez - El Se?or de los ChupetesNot declared as MIA, but this game has been developed more than twenty years ago but remained unpublished anywhere until now. One of the authors of …
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Ground ZeroDid anyone ever play this text adventure back in the day? I remember it making the whole 'era' even more scary. As if the cold war wasn't terrifying…
Did anyone ever play this text adventure back in the day?
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Arrays in Spectrum basicHi everyone, I've recently begun learning to programme in Spectrum and want to write a text adventure. Could someone give me an example or help me o…
... and want to write a text adventure.
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Castle MorcanI've just been playing Castle Morcan a text adventure written in Quill which is on Adventure tape 1. But i'm stuck and cannot find any hints for this…
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Help on a Game IDHello peeps, Might be a bit of a tricky ID this, as I think it was only released as part of a compilation. It was a space based text adventure with …
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Huge compilation - 7(ish) tapes?I'm trying to remember the name of a speccy compilation that had about 100 games and (I think) was on about 7 or 8 tapes. My mate bought it from a m…
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Computer gaming industry "heroes"From the web page ( [url]http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2011/05/poll-molyneux-miyamoto-top-world-game-development-heroes/1?…
... [/url] ) [All green and blue text is copied and pasted from ... blokes who invented the first text adventure on the mainframes in the ... -
Student looks for material stuff to do with 80s gameplayHi everyone, Thanks to everyone for their help in advance by the way! I'll be posting this message or something like it on other retro gaming forums …
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The Forest StopThe text adventure The Forest Stop doesn't have an Infoseek entry. It's an illustrated 128k PAW adventure by Colin Woodcock (c) 1989 Sterling Endeavo…
The text adventure The Forest Stop doesn't ... 's an illustrated 128k PAW adventure by Colin Woodcock (c) 1989 ... -
Exsdos writeHi, I'm sure I read somewhere that Exsdos can write to the CF card as if it's a tape but that it doesn't work properly and can corrupt the FAT table…
... it, for example, load a text adventure (seabase delta) from a TAP ... -
Spectrum games with best storylines?What games have you played on Spectrum that had memorable plots and characters? I've been trying to think of some Spectrum games with interesting st…
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HHGTTG the game remade by fansI don't know if this has already been posted here, but the old text adventure of the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been remade into a point a…
... posted here, but the old text adventure of the Hitch-Hiker's ... BBC managed with their revamped text versions ( [url]http://www.bbc ... the atmosphere of the original text game. For a start, the ... -
The Island by Ken BondJust noticed that this text adventure appears to be missing from the database, having just come across it in an eBay auction. I imagine that it was …
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Safe as Houses wrong genreThe game "Safe as Houses" is included in a series where all of the program are catalogued as "educational", although some of them, as this one, dont …
... in particular looks like a Text adventure.
"Escape from School ... " also looks like a text adventure.
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PokladHi, I have noticed a minor error in a game description. Please change the message language of the text adventure "Poklad" from English to Czech.
Hi, I have noticed a minor error in a game description. Please change the message language of the text adventure "Poklad" from English to Czech. -
Games Club WC 30/1/12after last weeks highly succesful albeit painfull games club. we now enter week 2. for those who missed the last one, please pick one of the games…
... of tyndal - a cheeky little text adventure from tratan software. 'sinclair user ... ' said - 'a well plotted adventure'
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Soon: SERRA PELADA!SERRA PELADA is a text adventure in Portuguese originally released for the TRS-80 and MSX in 1987. It was developed using an improved version of the …
SERRA PELADA is a text adventure in Portuguese originally released for ... are way too few good adventure games in Portuguese, and this ... -
Worst gaffes you've made in gamesWhat is the worst gaffe or gaffes you've made in a game? Can be a stupid own goal at football, walked straight off a cliff in some game or other, sho…
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Dragon World by Britannia - should it have an inlay?Pretty much as the subject says really. :) Does anyone know if this game should have an inlay? It was written using The Quill in 1984 so it's quite …
... worth playing. It's a text adventure.. here's the second location ... a lovely day for an adventure.
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Interview with VERONIKA MEGLER ("The Hobbit" programmer)This interview with Veronika Megler (The Hobbit) has been published by elmundodelspectrum.com in Spanish, I copy it here for you all in its original …
... [I]?Had you played any text adventure before creating The Hobbit?[/I ... interesting and compelling than Classic Adventure.
[I]? ... that clearly, ?the greatest adventure ever? couldn?t suffer from ... it was an English adventure. English level in Spain ... -
Text adventure games for saleAn ebay shop is selling some of my games for me, as some are quite rare I thought the exposure in his shop would generate interest, the link is [URL=…
An ebay shop is selling some of my games for me, as some are quite rare I thought the exposure in his shop would generate interest, the link is [URL="http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?rt=nc&LH_Auction=1&_ssn=microsprout0161&_trksid=p3911.c0.m301 ... -
Adventurers: Your Help NeededHi All, I'm embarking on a feat which I am going to regret. Basically I will need the help of a host of volunteers with a passion for those old cla…
... passion for those old classic text adventure games.
I am ... of a couple of adventure games (obviously graphic adventure games). I'm ...
