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by Samwise
Fri May 28, 2010 11:02 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: How to play IF on your mobile?
Replies: 5
Views: 1792

Re: How to play IF on your mobile?

These days I think it's less about the phone and more about what operating system it's running that determines the choice of applications and, hence, it's suitability as an adventure gaming phone. If it's a Nokia you have, it sounds like it might be running Symbian? I don't have a recent one of ...
by Samwise
Fri May 28, 2010 10:58 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Scope of the site
Replies: 22
Views: 6752

Re: Scope of the site

unofficial-port tag? ;)

Sam.
by Samwise
Wed May 26, 2010 11:00 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Drawing maps
Replies: 31
Views: 115229

Re: Drawing maps

Just thought I'd add a link in here to Interactive Fiction Mapper (IFM) 5.2:

http://fluffybunny.memebot.com/ifm.html

This isn't the same as the afore-mentioned IFMapper , though the latter GUI program supports importing and exporting to the IFM format.

IFM defines a language for recording maps ...
by Samwise
Tue May 25, 2010 10:08 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Platform distinction
Replies: 19
Views: 7392

Re: Platform distinction

Without trying to be argumentative, I can think of more than a handful of beeb releases off the top of my head which wouldn't work on an Electron, without a proper conversion ... ( Granny's Garden , The Hobbit , Lord of the Rings: Game One , Dread Dragon Droom , Flowers of Crystal , L - A ...
by Samwise
Tue May 25, 2010 9:42 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Scope of the site
Replies: 22
Views: 6752

Re: Scope of the site

Good points, dave and not something I'd considered.

I probably favour your suggestion of tagging a game as illustrated if any of the platform ports contained graphics. This is because, from what I have seen of the database, it is not intended to be platform-specific so each entry in the database ...
by Samwise
Tue May 25, 2010 9:06 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: BBC Micro - The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings: Game One updates
Replies: 22
Views: 6484

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

Hi,

I don't know how much interest this will spark but I thought I'd post a link to a couple of updates to the beeb disc ports of the Melbourne House Tolkien titles, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings: Game One .

A very talented individual by the name of Kieran Mockford recently announced his new ...
by Samwise
Tue May 25, 2010 3:01 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Platform distinction
Replies: 19
Views: 7392

Re: Platform distinction

Most (not all) Acorn Electron games will run on a BBC Micro. However, the reverse is not so true. The Electron was effectively a cut-down version of the beeb for the home market and is missing a number of features - notably the base system lacked the teletext MODE 7, which was often used for beeb ...
by Samwise
Tue May 25, 2010 2:17 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Scope of the site
Replies: 22
Views: 6752

Re: Scope of the site

All perfectly valid points. :)

Just to add that the reason for suggesting a tag that covers 95% of the games is the subject of this topic - it would allow anyone who wasn't interested in anything other than classic adventures, to simply omit them from a search. Thus making it less of an issue if ...
by Samwise
Tue May 25, 2010 1:00 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Scope of the site
Replies: 22
Views: 6752

Re: Scope of the site

If it was a choice between them, I'd suggest AND. You could always replicate an OR by running the search twice with a single, different tag/genre selected each time.

Sam.
by Samwise
Tue May 25, 2010 12:04 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Scope of the site
Replies: 22
Views: 6752

Re: Scope of the site

haha.

Actually I pretty much did. I looked up Melbourne House's The Hobbit in the database and confirmed it was listed in two genres (Based on book, Tolkien) ... so I kinda figured the back-end database layout was already there. Hence I thought it would be easy to just extend the Advanced search ...
by Samwise
Tue May 25, 2010 11:26 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Scope of the site
Replies: 22
Views: 6752

Re: Scope of the site

Hi Sam, and welcome to the forum - hope you'll have a nice time here!
Thanks, I'll certainly try. :)

It's always a pleasure receiving new ideas, and yours certainly has some merit. If we were to add info on the areas you suggest, I'd prefer (as you do) to have them as tags, rather than ...
by Samwise
Mon May 24, 2010 1:30 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Scope of the site
Replies: 22
Views: 6752

Re: Scope of the site

New guy here ... hi. ;)

Very impressed with the new site - looks good. I only stumbled across this community just before the relaunch, but can see it's had a lot of TLC put into it.

Anyway, wrt this topic, would it make sense to just add a few new genres? Such as:

text-only
illustrated
point-n ...