Available for the PC in 1983, and the Atari ST in 1985. Home of the Underdogs has it.
HTH,
Sam.
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- Tue Jul 06, 2010 4:57 pm
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: Forbidden Quest 1983
- Replies: 9
- Views: 26598
- 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 ...
http://www.retrosoftware.co.uk/wiki/images/thumb/a/a4/PanicCaveMouth.png/375px-PanicCaveMouth.png ...
- 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! 
How did we miss that??!
We spent ages messing around in that office!
Sam.

How did we miss that??!
We spent ages messing around in that office!
Sam.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
I'm no Spectrum expert, but the ZX Spectrum Wikipedia article seems to indicate the only ...
- 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.
Right, I'll see if I can contribute some bits.
Apologies for not replying sooner. Been mega-busy of late.
Sam.
- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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.
Sam.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
I shouldn't have any problems loading in the separate parts. That was a bit ...
- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
Zaxmidlet is the only thing I know of that will and it sounds like that's what you've ...