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ZX Spectrum (Text) Adventures - Additional InfomationI've put together a document with addition information and/or corrections for 150+ of the text adventures in the database. [URL="www.garethpitchford…
... corrections for 150+ of the text adventures in the database.
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ZX Spectrum case touchupWhat is the best solution to touch up the faded 'ZX Spectrum' text on the top casing? J
What is the best solution to touch up the faded 'ZX Spectrum' text on the top casing?
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Early thoughts about creating a text adventureSo I always wanted to create my own ZX Spectrum text adventure. I tried looking at PAWs and GAC, but frankly I'm probably too stupid to use them. I…
... wanted to create my own ZX Spectrum text adventure.
I ... export the result to a ZX Spectrum-file.
- ... thought about doing graphics in ZX-Paintbrush. I know it somewhat ... could merge it into my text adventure...)
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JAWS: The Text Adventure<div><img src="http://i62.tinypic.com/2rhv0xc.gif"> <img src="http://i61.tinypic.com/90czlx.gif" style="line-height: 1.7em;"><font face="A…
... the style of a classic ZX-Spectrum text adventure in Sinclair BASIC ... it for real to the ZX-Spectrum, using only Sinclair BASIC ... -
Quest for the Golden Eggcup - Inform versionAround ten years ago Harvey Lodder of Smart Egg Software was working on a new version of the brilliant ZX Spectrum text-adventure [i]Quest for the Go…
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spectrum whitening ?not like keyboard whitening, just the logo underneath sinclair.. I have hhm 2 - 3 machines that look great, but the only thing that shows their age …
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SPIN v0.2c available now[Cut n Paste from the CSS post] Okay, I'm off to sunny(?) Scarborough for a week, so Woody and I thought it best that we give you something to d…
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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…
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Vector images of Spectrum models?A few years ago there was a website that had an image of every Spectrum model in vector format available for download. Has anyone seen this before? I…
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Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …
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Where can I find a high-quality picture of a Speccy model 2?I've been scouring that internet, with a surprising lack of success, trying to find a square-on shot of a model 2 Speccy, ie the one with the darker-…
I've got this:
[url]http://www.zxdesign.info/images/issue2Photo.JPG[/url]
not the greatest photo, best I had tho.
Might need to photoshop the ZX Spectrum text back to white.
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SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…
... $file = FileOpenDialog("Import ZX BASIC text file...",$Dir,"Program Listing (*. ... br />
$Text = StringUpper ($Text)
$Text = StringReplace($Text, Chr(34), "@") ;;replace ... version of quote
$Text = StringReplace($Text, "'", "`") ;;replace all ... -
SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…
... = FileOpenDialog("Import ZX BASIC text file...",$Dir,"Program ... Text = StringReplace($Text, $N, " ") ;;disable BASin backslash
$Text = StringUpper ($Text)
$Text = StringReplace($Text ... Border command
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Testing needed (+demo)Hi, As my "next" project is mostly finished (still hoping to get it out next week), I realised I need some testing. So here's a demo. [url]http://…
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Testing needed (+demo)Hi, As my "next" project is mostly finished (still hoping to get it out next week), I realised I need some testing. So here's a demo. [url]http://…
... & MegaLZ are all good ZX compression methods that might be worth ... I will need to use compression to even fit 3 levels ... -
Spectrum text adventures with music - are there any?I was playing the C64 version of Kentilla and rather enjoying [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX0gIf1Hg4E"]Rob Hubbard's in-game soundtrack[/URL…
I've played countless ZX Spectrum text adventure games over the years ( ... -
ZX Spectrum case touchupWhat is the best solution to touch up the faded 'ZX Spectrum' text on the top casing? J
[QUOTE=serene;704898]What is the best solution to touch up the faded 'ZX Spectrum' text on the top casing?
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Nail polish? If you don't like it/mess it up nail polish remover will do the trick -
Squishing code up nice and small then unsquashing it in assemblyI refer of course to data compression. I've done a search and there are lots of good compressors, but I can't seem to find one that works in assembl…
... refer of course to data compression.
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the thing is that compression is very often very asymetric ... decompression can be done on zx, compression needs fast cpu and lot ... any sany developer is cross compression once the more powerful ... -
Squishing code up nice and small then unsquashing it in assemblyI refer of course to data compression. I've done a search and there are lots of good compressors, but I can't seem to find one that works in assembl…
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the thing is that compression is very often very asymetric ... decompression can be done on zx, compression needs fast cpu and lot ... any sany developer is cross compression once the more powerful machines ... -
What embossed logo on DivMMC EnJOY! case?With the DivMMC EnJOY! case which is in development now, I have the option to add an embossed logo, like on every ZX Spectrum. But I'm not sure what …
... , I got rid of the ZX Spectrum text (allthough it looked really ... the case like: "For the ZX Spectrum".
I also ... -
Early thoughts about creating a text adventureSo I always wanted to create my own ZX Spectrum text adventure. I tried looking at PAWs and GAC, but frankly I'm probably too stupid to use them. I…
... wanted to create my own ZX Spectrum text adventure.
... thought about doing graphics in ZX-Paintbrush. I know it ... could merge it into my text adventure...)
[/QUOTE]< ... able to import graphics from ZX-Paintbrush. The graphics editors in ... -
Early thoughts about creating a text adventureSo I always wanted to create my own ZX Spectrum text adventure. I tried looking at PAWs and GAC, but frankly I'm probably too stupid to use them. I…
... wanted to create my own ZX Spectrum text adventure.
I ... , could I export to a ZX-compatible Z-file?
[/quote ... create two (adapted from books) text adventures. If you grok this ... -
Bob Smith's zx81 games (and others like UWOL 81) should be ported to the zx spectrumThere's a bunch of great zx81 games made recently. I think that by maintaining the same blocky grafix and by adding color and sound, games like one…
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From ZX81 to ZX Spectrum is easier than from ... things to convert to ZX Spectrum:
Text must be altered to ... ZX Spectrum ASCII-set.
... needed.
Alter display to ZX Spectrum.
Compile code ... -
Print to text file? (ZX Printer)Are there any emulators that allow the zx printer output to be directed to an ASCII text file? I've been hacking some Brian Howarth adventures and a…
... the zx printer output to be directed to an ASCII text file ... printer output sent to a text file.
I know ... Ultraedit to extract all the text, but I want to do ... -
Porting C64 text adventures to ZX Spectrum?I would like to port some of my text adventures from the C64 on over to the ZX Spectrum. Is this easy to do? Can someone with knowledge of the Spectr…
... port some of my text adventures from the C64 ... on over to the ZX Spectrum. Is this easy ... daunting, but I have text adventures that I have written ... Dunric's 8K Adventure - A text adventure in only 8KB.
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Simple text compressionI just checked one idea about text compression. Do not take it as recomendation but rather as info which can you save some time when you are solving …
... just checked one idea about text compression. Do not take it as ... /> The idea:
Need for text compression which compress well short messages ... /> The solution:
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Text file for ZX ExplorerHi, I was wondering if the text file is still being updated containing the file details for uploading into ZX explorer? Many thanks Peter Jones
Hi,
I was wondering if the text file is still being updated containing the file details for uploading into ZX explorer?
Many thanks
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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…
I once typed in a Text compressor from INPUT magazine, it ... . one could get around 40% compression.
I was thinking ... an average of over 50% compression be acheived. Of course I ...
