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by dave
Mon Mar 07, 2011 6:02 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Paul's 4k Adventure - coder's help needed (again)
Replies: 17
Views: 6760

Re: Paul's 4k Adventure - coder's help needed (again)

The odds of you winning a fight seem a bit poor: you have a 3 in 5 chance of scoring a hit, for either 6-11, 12-25 or 18-30 points of damage, which with 294 enemy hits will take a while. The enemy, on the other hand has a 2 in 5 chance of scoring a hit for either 6-11 or 88 - 120 points of damage ...
by dave
Sun Mar 06, 2011 9:27 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Paul's 4k Adventure - coder's help needed (again)
Replies: 17
Views: 6760

Re: Paul's 4k Adventure - coder's help needed (again)

The code looks to be fine:
211 MH=INT(RND(1)*350)+1:YY$="WITH A BONE-CRUSHING SOUND."
212 PRINT">":I=INT(RND(1)*25)+1:FORX=1TO500:NEXT:YS$="YOU SMASHED "
213 WD=1:FORX=1TO21:IFLO(X)=105THENPRINT"YOU ARE WIELDING ";NO$(X);"’.":WD=X:X=21
214 NEXT
215 PRINT"YOU ARE FIGHTING ";NO$(N);"."
216 PRINT ...
by dave
Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:58 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: About the platforms/Japanese games
Replies: 15
Views: 7528

Re: About the platforms/Japanese games

Okay; I've added CP/M as a platform, currently only for Barsoom Adventure #1: The Lost City which replaced Adam.

My logic behind this (after doing some research) is the CP/M was an alternative OS for computers with a Zilog Z80 or an Intel 8080 (the Z80 is virtually compatible with the 8080) where ...
by dave
Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:15 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Any French Speakers on here?
Replies: 49
Views: 28878

Re: Any French Speakers on here?

Does anyone know what BASIC variants use LOCATE <row>, <column>? Or does anyone know (it must exist somewhere!) of a good site comparing all the old BASIC variants, where we could find that kind of info?

It looks like LOCATE row,column is advanced Microsoft BASIC - it even carried through to GW ...
by dave
Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:55 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: About the platforms/Japanese games
Replies: 15
Views: 7528

Re: About the platforms/Japanese games

Multi-platform OSes (e.g. CP/M or Unix) are always going to cause a problem with the platform and we do have some precedence where this has happened before (e.g. Unix or Mainframe). IIRC CP/M will run on any Z80 machine (I remember using it on Torch at school many years ago).

I suppose the argument ...
by dave
Sun Jan 30, 2011 3:06 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Any French Speakers on here?
Replies: 49
Views: 28878

Re: Any French Speakers on here?

Actually mangling the URL that eriorg sent, we can get to page 1 , which gives us a list of:

Alice
Amstrad
Apple
Atari
BBC
Canon X 07 (?)
Commodore
EXL 100 (?)
IBM PC
MSX
Oric
Sinclair QL
Spectrum
Thomson MO 5 and T0 7/70 (?)
TI 99/4A
TRS 80
ZX 81

Which is the majority of 8 bit ...
by dave
Sun Jan 30, 2011 1:54 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Any French Speakers on here?
Replies: 49
Views: 28878

Re: Any French Speakers on here?

Oooh, Sorcellerie :D -- I discovered text adventures thanks to this game! Actually, I didn't play it myself, but someone I knew played it on a computer at school (a Thomson, not a Matra Alice; I'm not sure I had ever heard about the Matra Alice myself, either! :wink: ) and that's how he got a ...
by dave
Sun Jan 30, 2011 1:51 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: About the platforms/Japanese games
Replies: 15
Views: 7528

Re: About the platforms/Japanese games

when looking at the Coleco Adam games list I noticed it contained Infocom adventures, I was wondering if these are genuine platform specific releases or just the CP/M versions runable on the computer. What is the site's policy regarding this and unofficial conversions (common on the C16/Plus 4 for ...
by dave
Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:39 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Any French Speakers on here?
Replies: 49
Views: 28878

Re: Any French Speakers on here?

It always amazes me at how the Dutch are so good at being polyglots.

I've deleted Sphinx d'or, Le and we can update the others when you return from your real-life adventure! Thanks for your help!
by dave
Sat Jan 01, 2011 9:24 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Any French Speakers on here?
Replies: 49
Views: 28878

Re: Any French Speakers on here?

4K is a lot. The Dragon and the Troll is about 2K worth of C64 Basic code. So is Mickey & the Blot, which you can find on Gamebase 64.

I was going from generics; for example the rewrite I did of the SAGA game system in 6502 is around 3K (though 1/2K is due to uncompressed system messages), with ...
by dave
Sun Dec 19, 2010 10:23 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Duplicate Entries
Replies: 40
Views: 13781

Re: Duplicate Entries

That picture probably clinches it (I didn't think to actually play the game - that would've been too sensible)!

Before I edit, we think that the publisher is Alfo Software and the author is Ad Lomer (is it A. D. Lomer or Ad. Lomer)?
by dave
Sat Dec 18, 2010 11:42 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Duplicate Entries
Replies: 40
Views: 13781

Re: Duplicate Entries

Fixed Winter Wonderland and YAGWAD .

A strong possibility:

"Winter Term" having read the description of the Alfo game (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=SinclairUser/Issue089/Pages/SinclairUser08900097.jpg) and played some of the Ad. Lomer game there is a strong possibility that 3641 ...
by dave
Sat Dec 11, 2010 3:42 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: CASA elsewhere
Replies: 1
Views: 15353

CASA elsewhere

I drive past this place a lot and just thought people'd find the signage amusing...

(You'll need to rotate slightly to the left to see the shop name.)
by dave
Thu Dec 09, 2010 8:52 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Duplicate Entries
Replies: 40
Views: 13781

Re: Duplicate Entries

Fixed!
by dave
Wed Dec 08, 2010 4:22 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Any French Speakers on here?
Replies: 49
Views: 28878

Re: Any French Speakers on here?

I've uploaded screenshots for three of the four games, and they look positively adventure-like to me. The fourth one, La Caverne des Morlocks, looks a little more shaky . I have a hunch that it might simply be a multiple-choice game.

That's what it looked like from the screenshots, but I stopped ...