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Anyone needing a POKE? (fnar?! Ed)Hello, all.. Are there any games out there which you require a POKE for? I mean ones which aren't already POKEd in Tipshop, obviously.. Toodle-pip!…
Popeye for infinite spinach(was there a timer too?) and Eureka for the text based section as I die to easily lol
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Why didn't The Pawn on the Spectrum have graphics?I've noticed that other versions of The Pawn have graphics, but not the Speccy release. Why is this? I think good graphics could have been achieved o…
[QUOTE=dm_boozefreek;273674]All of the porn on the Speccy had graphics :D[/QUOTE]
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Why didn't The Pawn on the Spectrum have graphics?I've noticed that other versions of The Pawn have graphics, but not the Speccy release. Why is this? I think good graphics could have been achieved o…
... Speccy? (well, maybe it's text based?)[/QUOTE]
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Uncommon games we should try ?The games section of the forum does seem to be very quiet lately ! We've had some similar threads in the past but over the last 6 months or so has a…
... the archive. It's a text based management game. You play a ... -
Possible new game ideaBased on the boardgame "Cafe International" I programmed "WorldBar". Based on that program I decided to change the gameplay where you don't have to w…
... rooms being explorable, like a text based game with limited graphics? I ... -
Possible new game ideaBased on the boardgame "Cafe International" I programmed "WorldBar". Based on that program I decided to change the gameplay where you don't have to w…
... rooms being explorable, like a text based game with limited graphics? I ... do a YS-themed game based on it... must write an ... -
Another "Does anyone know this game"Hello guys, Hope you can help me - been trying to id this game for ages. It was a trading game, based on an island where the winner was the first to …
Is it text-based? It's not [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0007129]Tradewinds[/url], by any chance? (Another long shot) -
Ramsoft website and file format SpecsDear readers, does anybody know what happened to the official Ramsoft website? Well, they had also so many important file format specification on th…
... TAPs - but for these, a text-based description might be the best ... -
Arcade/Text Adventure hybrids?Were there any arcade/text adventure hybrids? The only one that comes to mind are ones that have sub strategy elements, but I'm thinking more along t…
not 100% relevant but in skool daze you write on the blackboard
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Debian linux on a Speccy!Ok, not [i]quite[/i] what you're expecting, but very cool nonetheless. [url]http://www.retrothing.com/2009/04/modding-a-sinclair-zx-spectrum-to-run-…
... ran natively on a Z80-based business computer (such as a ... there's an 80x25 character text-based display. I'm not sure ... -
Debian linux on a Speccy!Ok, not [i]quite[/i] what you're expecting, but very cool nonetheless. [url]http://www.retrothing.com/2009/04/modding-a-sinclair-zx-spectrum-to-run-…
... there's an 80x25 character text-based display. I'm not sure ... -
Would welcome ideas for my large map game...I have been working on an engine to allow scrolling around a large map. For now, it allows 1 char movement around a 64x64 map made up of 4x4 char t…
... next project will be a text based RPG. (a bit like oblivion ... -
Would welcome ideas for my large map game...I have been working on an engine to allow scrolling around a large map. For now, it allows 1 char movement around a 64x64 map made up of 4x4 char t…
... next project will be a text based RPG. (a bit like oblivion ... so hard to play a text based rpg game. you always keep ... idea to write all the text and hand it over to ... -
Would welcome ideas for my large map game...I have been working on an engine to allow scrolling around a large map. For now, it allows 1 char movement around a 64x64 map made up of 4x4 char t…
... so hard to play a text based rpg game. you always keep ... idea to write all the text and hand it over to ... modern rpg's are almost text based themselves. rather than looking for ... /> there are ways in the 'text game creators' to allow you ... -
ZX Spectrum Games Family TreeI?m sure it has been done before (possibly in one of the gaming mags) but I?ve never seen a videogame ?family tree? showing which early games influen…
... Computer Games:
Text based adventures spawned illustrated text based adventures which in turn ... spawned roam-around'n'type-in-text ... -
ZX Spectrum Games Family TreeI?m sure it has been done before (possibly in one of the gaming mags) but I?ve never seen a videogame ?family tree? showing which early games influen…
... Computer Games:
Text based adventures spawned illustrated text based adventures which in turn ... spawned roam-around'n'type-in-text ... -
does anyone remember the game?Im trying to remember a game, it had a kinda basic '3rd' person view and you had to walk around asking people questions, i think. i think the plot in…
aw no, it was very text based, i dont seem to remember any graphics, i think i got in a pack with several others games by the same makers -
How long do you spent on WOS a week???I roughly spend about er....hmm..... 3/4 hours I reckon, Looking on the forums, trawling the game archives.... And yes...the title should read - "…
... manifests said emotions through the text-based medium of the internet, usually ... -
Browser based gameI've been kicking around an idea for a couple of years for a browser based strategy game. The idea is to keep it simple and very easy to pick up wit…
... now ...the orginal was all text based and a bit of a ... -
Speccy MMOAs it says how feasible would it be to do one on the speccy ? Forgive the crazy idea the tabs im on for a chesty fection is actin weird on me :S
You'd probably have to go back to the origins of the genre on the PC... to the old MUDs and MUSHes MMORPGs that were all text based. -
Did anyone ever finish rockstar ate my hamster?Did anyone ever finish this game,is there a proven method?.
... management game called Rockstar - entirely text-based and obsessed with drugs like ... -
Granny's Garden[IMG]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Granny%27sGardenWitch.gif[/IMG] As I'm sure everyone is aware, Granny's garden is not permitted for distribut…
... like Stig of the Dump). Text adventures are just unlike anything ... kids will have seen a text interface adventure. For me, once you ... adventure then you just don't want to go back to text ... BBC there were better educational text adventures such as Martello Tower ... -
Why was/is the ZX Spectrum so popular?Why? How? Even after all this time you have a website like this etc.... It's just amazing!
... /> Secondly, the BBC B has text based screen modes, which are much ... or scrolling large bits of text. This alone can give a ... -
Why was/is the ZX Spectrum so popular?Why? How? Even after all this time you have a website like this etc.... It's just amazing!
... helps if you're doing text based stuff and want it to ... -
what other hobbies do you have?I mean we are all here, because of retro gaming / spectrum etc.. but what other hobbies do you have? (inspired by another thread that mr cpczone wa…
... story, and then controls the adventure - tells others what they see ... could turn them into a text or adventure game for Spectrum :) -
Favourite Boxing Game?There were a surprising number of them. Andy's (sirclive1) review of BarryMcGuigan in the Spectrum Bible says that's the best and I'm tempted to agr…
... , even though it was mainly text based (you only saw your boxer ... -
games that never lived up to the hypewas there ever any games u throught were good to play but when u played them u did not like them
... fair, I was a strictly "text based" adventurer then, and didn't ... -
The ZX Spectrum Screenshot ChallengeI know that the idea has been nicked from another forum but thought it would be fun to have a Speccy version... Post a pic of a Speccy game and let …
[QUOTE=1980-20..;511519]Mercenary maybe?[/QUOTE]
I can see your thinking there, as the font for the numbers looks the same.
It is a text style adventure, with icons for the main commands, like ZZZZ (yes, I know it's not ZZZZ)?
