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by Samwise
Tue Jul 06, 2010 4:57 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Forbidden Quest 1983
Replies: 9
Views: 26598

Re: Forbidden Quest 1983

Available for the PC in 1983, and the Atari ST in 1985. Home of the Underdogs has it.

HTH,

Sam.
by Samwise
Sat Jul 03, 2010 10:51 am
Forum: The modern era
Topic: Lovecraftian Games on the IF Archive
Replies: 10
Views: 11869

Re: Lovecraftian Games on the IF Archive

Possibly straying off-topic ... but there's an arcade adventure being developed for the BBC Micro called Mountain Panic , which is based on At the Mountains of Madness , a H.P. Lovecraft novella.

http://www.retrosoftware.co.uk/wiki/images/thumb/a/a4/PanicCaveMouth.png/375px-PanicCaveMouth.png ...
by Samwise
Fri Jul 02, 2010 7:37 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: BBC Micro - The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings: Game One updates
Replies: 22
Views: 6484

Re: BBC Micro - The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings: Game One upd

Gah! Image

How did we miss that??!

We spent ages messing around in that office! :oops:

Sam.
by Samwise
Thu Jul 01, 2010 6:54 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Drawing maps
Replies: 31
Views: 115229

Re: Drawing maps

I thought I'd add a brief post here with my recent experiences with Gonzalo Garramuno's GUI tool, Interactive Fiction Mapper on both Windows XP Pro and Debian Testing Linux. It's a bit of a faff to install if you're not familiar with Ruby, but the tool itself is quite good albeit a little unstable ...
by Samwise
Thu Jul 01, 2010 12:10 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: BBC Micro - The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings: Game One updates
Replies: 22
Views: 6484

Re: BBC Micro - The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings: Game One upd

Yes, there are clearly some significant differences. The game was further divided for memory reasons and so some of the changes in the game are due to that limitation too. We're currently in part 1B - mainly because we've uncovered a problem with the loading/saving of our game from 1A into 1B ...
by Samwise
Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:45 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Platform distinction
Replies: 19
Views: 7392

Re: Platform distinction

I'm certainly no expert on Spectrum, so I set up the 16K as a separate platform as I was under the impression that it was a completely different range of machines (like the ZX81). But perhaps I'm wrong?
I'm no Spectrum expert, but the ZX Spectrum Wikipedia article seems to indicate the only ...
by Samwise
Wed Jun 23, 2010 1:08 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Clarification: Sypnosis and uploaded files
Replies: 3
Views: 2093

Re: Clarification: Sypnosis and uploaded files

Thanks for the clarifications, all. Sounds like synopsis is more of a general description or detailed info section.

Right, I'll see if I can contribute some bits.

Apologies for not replying sooner. Been mega-busy of late.

Sam.
by Samwise
Wed Jun 23, 2010 11:28 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Lost or unreleased game you'd love to play
Replies: 15
Views: 7695

Re: Lost or unreleased game you'd love to play

@Sam: Yes, I'd love to forget the bugridden travesty that was Simon 3D. Blind-buy for me and some of the worst money I spent that year.
I bought a copy off eBay and when it arrived it was a really poor quality inkjet printed label / burned CD-R package. I complained to the seller who seemed ...
by Samwise
Fri Jun 04, 2010 10:33 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Clarification: Sypnosis and uploaded files
Replies: 3
Views: 2093

Clarification: Sypnosis and uploaded files

Hi,

I haven't made any significant contributions yet, but I thought I could submit some info on a few games I know well. After looking around the submissions sections of the site tho, I just wanted to clarify a few points before I submitted anything.

Sypnosis - is this meant to be very short (many ...
by Samwise
Fri Jun 04, 2010 9:28 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Lost or unreleased game you'd love to play
Replies: 15
Views: 7695

Re: Lost or unreleased game you'd love to play

ooh, and just remembered that I was also disappointed when work was abandoned on the 2D version of Simon the Sorcerer 3. The 3D game that was eventually released didn't really stand up against the first two games in the series ...

Sam.
by Samwise
Fri Jun 04, 2010 1:04 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Lost or unreleased game you'd love to play
Replies: 15
Views: 7695

Re: Lost or unreleased game you'd love to play

well, apart from wishing Infocom had ported a Z-machine interpreter to the beeb ( wish now granted ), and that there'd also been some beeb ports of games popular on other platforms (incl. Shadows of Mordor , The Crack of Doom , Dizzy , Chuckie Egg 2 etc.) ... but these may not be quite in the spirit ...
by Samwise
Sat May 29, 2010 5:03 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: BBC Micro - The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings: Game One updates
Replies: 22
Views: 6484

Re: BBC Micro - The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings: Game One upd

Yep, I meant which platform was the game released on, so C64 covers it. I don't think they'll be a huge difference between the solution for the beeb and C64 versions, say, but I imagine there will be platform-specific bugs.

I shouldn't have any problems loading in the separate parts. That was a bit ...
by Samwise
Sat May 29, 2010 2:24 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: BBC Micro - The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings: Game One updates
Replies: 22
Views: 6484

Re: BBC Micro - The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings: Game One upd

ah-hah, thanks for the offer, Alastair. Out of curiosity, which platform were you playing on?

I always ended up giving up before the end of the first part as an impetuous teen, but hopefully I'll get further with it this time. ;) I'm playing through it with a friend so hopefully that will give me ...
by Samwise
Fri May 28, 2010 4:01 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: BBC Micro - The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings: Game One updates
Replies: 22
Views: 6484

Re: BBC Micro - The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings: Game One upd

If you plan on giving either of them a go with an emulator, might I suggest that whilst the latest 2.0 releases of B-Em are shaping up to be pretty phenonemal, you're probably best sticking with BeebEm for these two. This is because, even run on a Master 128, the parser stills takes quite some time ...
by Samwise
Fri May 28, 2010 1:09 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: How to play IF on your mobile?
Replies: 5
Views: 1792

Re: How to play IF on your mobile?

Ahh, that handset runs Symbian Series 40 which is quite long in the tooth as far as modern Symbian applications go, unfortunately. Neither ScummVM or the Speccy emulator will work on that without modification.

Zaxmidlet is the only thing I know of that will and it sounds like that's what you've ...