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- 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 ...
- 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.
Sam.
- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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.
Sam.
- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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 ...
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 ...