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  • 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…

    ... quest? it is my favourite text adventure. it has long texts ... he had a somewhat better compression method. I still have a ...
    Timmy Timmy October 2016 Games
  • MuCho multiple choise adventure engine, release 2 - little to no programming neededRelease 2 of the MuCho multiple choise adventure (CYOA, choose your own adventure, gamebook) game engine. http://iki.fi/sol/zip/mucho_02.zip Fo…

    ... HTML tags from the description text as I went and converting ... />
    Even with your improved compression I think it'll struggle ...
    MykeP MykeP October 2016 Development
  • MuCho multiple choise adventure engine, release 2 - little to no programming neededRelease 2 of the MuCho multiple choise adventure (CYOA, choose your own adventure, gamebook) game engine. http://iki.fi/sol/zip/mucho_02.zip Fo…

    ... see what yields the best compression ratio, and although I haven ... text close to each other in source, I should get better compression ... see the result. So the compression scheme now is:

    Sol_HSA Sol_HSA October 2016 Development
  • New game: Sam Mallard - The Case of the Missing Swan[img]http://i66.tinypic.com/o8z6vd.png[/img] [code] Sam Mallard – The Case of the Missing Swan. Version 1.0 by Ersh in 2016 The clock had tur…

    ... the player going with little text and the sensation of making ... get go. A wall of text can be pretty intimidating, so ... I saved the text-heavy parts towards the end ... 's excellent zx7 for the compression. That's pretty much it ...
    Ersh Ersh March 2017 Brand new software
  • c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!!c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!! the first old version uses only square waves, 4 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CKt9noxA7s…

    ... modified the text) István reorganized it for better compression. He mentioned ...
    Geco Geco March 2017 Announcements
  • Jet Set Willy 2's original author releases a modded version of the game!Apologies if this has already been posted, but Derrick P. Rowson, the original author of Jet Set Willy 2, has been modding JSW2, and the latest versi…

    ... />
    changed room compression. (original routine was written ... />
    changed room name compression.

    changed ...
    changed scrolling message compression

    changed several ... by .
    The text is not case sensitive ...
    ewgf ewgf March 2017 Games
  • XeldaI've decided to take on the Zelda tribute game and take over the Xelda title (because it's a great title name). Working with the MK2 Mojon twins gam…

    ... on compression) with all location specific tiles, sprites, music and text. Each ...
    dave18 dave18 March 2017 Development
  • Thinking about my gameAnother long post, I'm afraid. Somewhere on this Forum is a short chunk of text I put up as a sample of what I'd like to turn into a text adventu…

    ... a kinda compression engine, can fit about 20k of text (including game ... Spectrum... Fitting large pieces of text is not difficult for me ...
    Timmy Timmy July 2017 Chit chat
  • Why can't you make a BASIC program as big as you want?Let me rephrase that. Is it possible using BASIC to write a program that can be multi part? In other words one that can LOAD lets say a story, in se…

    ... to load in multi-part text adventures. It does this by ... -lifting including user input processing, text parsing, draw logic (it uses ... clever vector technique including data compression), data decoding (the adventure data ...
    Arjun Arjun January 2018 Updates
  • Need Some Basic HelpHi all, I’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit of nostalgia trip!) and I’m trying to develop a CYOA style game. How…

    ... (assuming you don't use compression, and doing it in BASIC ... -- compression costs time and adds a ... those 10 PRINT "" into that text file, and then just copy ...
    Timmy Timmy March 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Creating Graphic AdventuresI was interested in creating a graphic text adventure on my pc, drawing the images in zxpaint, then exporting it as a zx spectrum game. What options …

    you may want to take a look at MUCHO. It's for CYOA though supports images, scripts, compression and comes with manual and samples. I guess one could simulate with scripting the text input from text adventures or at least the lucasarts tokens system.
    hikoki hikoki November 2018 Development
  • Which 128k games actually used 128kA lot of 128k games were 48k games with decent AY music, or used screen flipping features, What games actually used 128k, e.g. all banks for game …

    ... a different game engine and compression, not to going from 48K ... after I had browsed the text file which accompanies [url="https ...
    jetsetdanny jetsetdanny April 2019 Software
  • New Utility to Transfer Z80 Snapshot to +3 DiskSince getting a Gotek for my +3 it has been my go to machine. The biggest downside however is the lack of older games on disk format with pretty much…

    ... : quiet mode, turn off all text output (other than error messages ... : dump memory banks and full compression to binary files. These will ...
    TomD TomD May 2019 Development
  • New Utility to Transfer Z80 Snapshot to +3 DiskSince getting a Gotek for my +3 it has been my go to machine. The biggest downside however is the lack of older games on disk format with pretty much…

    ... limitation that each page/bank compression could only be max 15360bytes ... : quiet mode, turn off all text output (other than error messages ... : dump memory banks and full compression to binary files. These will ...
    TomD TomD May 2019 Development
  • New Utility to Transfer Z80 Snapshot to +3 DiskSince getting a Gotek for my +3 it has been my go to machine. The biggest downside however is the lack of older games on disk format with pretty much…

    ... : quiet mode, turn off all text output (other than error messages ... : dump memory banks and full compression to binary files. These will ...
    TomD TomD May 2019 Development
  • Z80onDSK now compatible with +3e with ZXMMC or similarJust updated my utility to work on Spectrums equipped with +3e ROMs and IDE storage. I've tested this with ZXMMC at the moment but don't think there …

    ... : quiet mode, turn off all text output (other than error messages ... : dump memory banks and full compression to binary files. These will ... -+3e mode
    ║ -c: dump compression data files only & suppress ...
    TomD TomD June 2019 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Starwars IV opening crawl demo---------------------_______________________--------------------------- Starwars IV opening crawl demo on 128K :) [url=https://mega.nz/#!37BV…

    ... every so often so the text is compressed vertically.

    compression, then do the vertical line ...
    joefish joefish July 2019 Development
  • Starwars IV opening crawl demo---------------------_______________________--------------------------- Starwars IV opening crawl demo on 128K :) [url=https://mega.nz/#!37BV…

    ... every so often so the text is compressed vertically.

    compression, then do the vertical line ...
    maeloterkim maeloterkim July 2019 Development
  • How much can you get into 48k?Todays experiment was to see how long, how much text, a PRINT statement will hold. I filled it up with * and counted them and got 689 chrs. Almost 22…

    ... if some form of compression is used, more text can be stored ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK August 2019 BASIC
  • How much can you get into 48k?Todays experiment was to see how long, how much text, a PRINT statement will hold. I filled it up with * and counted them and got 689 chrs. Almost 22…

    ... if some form of compression is used, more text can be stored ... old thread. Just remember putting text descriptions in statements like LET ...
    dmsmith dmsmith August 2019 BASIC
  • Any adventure game frameworks written BASIC ?I remember INPUT published a simple adventure game, with about ten locations. It was all written in BASIC, but it provided a program framework one co…

    ... Fortunately any starting BASIC text adventure writer won't ... re new to making text adventures. Lots of ... had a pretty clever compression algorithm, some letters it ... worldofspectrum.org/archive/software/utilities/text-compressordecompressor-input

    dmsmith dmsmith April 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • Text compression methodsI once typed in a Text compressor from INPUT magazine, it worked on a first and second most common following letters algorythm and reduced the binary…

    ... really, you know all the text beforehand. (so this is why ... the data to get best compression)

    e.g. in ... " "exits" etc. than in regular text. Look at that wiki link ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter September 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • Text compression methodsI once typed in a Text compressor from INPUT magazine, it worked on a first and second most common following letters algorythm and reduced the binary…

    ... often used letter sequences" for compression. This does not only apply ... possible compression you'll have to do text analysis on the text you ...
    Timmy Timmy September 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • Help - Mac incorrect file typesHi there - I'm being really slow on this one, I know. But I'm having problems with the initially incorrect file types assosciated with most of the ga…

    ... downloading and unzipping: most resemble text files and won't load ...
    Nadeem Nadeem October 2001 Emulators
  • adventure gamesI always liked text adventures and the speccy had loads,my favourites were Robin of sherwood,,Espionage island,,emerald isle,,dracula,,secret of st b…

    I always liked text adventures and the speccy had ...
    Andy Gurr Andy Gurr January 2002 Games
  • I`m Looking For A Game....Can anybody help me I`m looking of a game.... I think it was a text-adventure based on a film with Medusa in it That`s All I Can Remember....... Ple…

    Can anybody help me I`m looking of a game....

    I think it was a text-adventure based on a film with Medusa in it
    That`s All I Can Remember.......
    Please......
    Anonymous Anonymous September 2001 Games
  • Making a Speccy-Like Text Adventure for Windows (follow-up)Hi to every1 who took an interest in the previous thread. I've decided to take up what I suggested previously and make a Windows version of a speccy…

    Hi to every1 who took an interest in the previous thread.

    I've decided to take up what I suggested previously and make a Windows version of a speccy adventure.

    I'm having a try at Invincible Island as it's a game I'm very ...
    Chris Chris August 2001 Games
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