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by Strident
Wed Nov 13, 2019 1:18 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Saigon: The Final Days (Atari 400/800 & TRS-80)
Replies: 37
Views: 51232

Re: Saigon: The Final Days (Atari 400/800 & TRS-80)

That manual https://www.mocagh.org/ai/jyympearsonpack-manual.pdf does have 'Other Venture Series Loading Instructions" in it. (But I can see it explicitly stated anywhere. Some sites give Saigon as Other Venture #1 which is obviously incorrect, as that is contradicted by AI advertising and box art!)
by Strident
Mon Nov 11, 2019 10:31 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Clarification about conversions
Replies: 15
Views: 10241

Re: Clarification about conversions


I reserve my doubts you would actually do that ;) I find it unlikely that this is just an issue of programming resources or database design. That amount of work would be feasible. Maintaining the massively increased data to fill such a "perfect resource", on the other hand, seems like a Herculian ...
by Strident
Mon Nov 11, 2019 12:28 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Clarification about conversions
Replies: 15
Views: 10241

Re: Clarification about conversions

We are, of course, limited by the existing structure of the database.

Were you to design a reference source for text adventures, from the ground up (rather than a solutions site), then you would create a system so that each version of the game could be listed on the game page with the relevant year ...
by Strident
Sun Nov 10, 2019 12:56 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Clarification about conversions
Replies: 15
Views: 10241

Re: Clarification about conversions


To put in another way; the point of the game-to-platform connection in the database should be to answer this question: "Can I play this game on platform X?" But alas, here it means something else.

In this case, the aim of the game-to-platform connection is to document what platforms a game has ...
by Strident
Sat Nov 09, 2019 1:39 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Clarification about conversions
Replies: 15
Views: 10241

Re: Clarification about conversions

As far as I understand it, and this is what I personally prefer when adding new information to the database, is that only official conversions should be listed in the platform section. Any unofficial/fan conversions can be mentioned in the notes section.

Unofficial conversions are a particular ...
by Strident
Sun Oct 06, 2019 2:55 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Moonstone (Atari 130xe)
Replies: 9
Views: 8475

Re: Moonstone (Atari 130xe)

Tony doesn't seem to remember Sabotage... so maybe it wasn't his? Or he's just forgotten it!
by Strident
Sun Oct 06, 2019 2:33 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Moonstone (Atari 130xe)
Replies: 9
Views: 8475

Re: Moonstone (Atari 130xe)

Thanks, Garry. I will pass it on.

I hadn't realised that Tony did the music for the Get Lamp documentary, and even has produced a whole album inspired by the Infocom games https://tonylongworth.wordpress.com/201 ... x-artwork/
by Strident
Sun Oct 06, 2019 2:20 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Moonstone (Atari 130xe)
Replies: 9
Views: 8475

Re: Moonstone (Atari 130xe)

I'm sure that Tony would be interested in a copy of John's solution, if we could possibly pass it on to him.
by Strident
Sun Oct 06, 2019 2:18 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Moonstone (Atari 130xe)
Replies: 9
Views: 8475

Re: Moonstone (Atari 130xe)

I did think it was quite spooky that your column is on the very next page. https://archive.org/details/Page_6_Issue_34_1988-07_ABACUS_GB/page/n21

But then, also spookily, it turns out Tony is from the same town as me too and didn't live that far away.

I'll ask Tony if he remembers anything about ...
by Strident
Sun Oct 06, 2019 12:56 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Moonstone (Atari 130xe)
Replies: 9
Views: 8475

Moonstone (Atari 130xe)

Here's one for the Atari guys...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJHZ9J4LpkU
The author of Moonstone, Tony Longsworth, plays through the game he wrote back in 1986/1987 for Page 6 magazine. :)

Here's a challenge if you want one... I was asking him about it on Twitter and mentioning we don't yet ...
by Strident
Sun May 19, 2019 7:39 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: "The Classic Adventurer" magazine
Replies: 3
Views: 4577

Re: "The Classic Adventurer" magazine

Issue 5 is now available featuring interviews with Simon Ainsworth, Simon Price & Mike Lewis, Scott Adams and more...

Free download & paid-for printed softback magazine available from: http://classicadventurer.co.uk/
by Strident
Fri May 10, 2019 7:04 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Can anyone recognize this game? (Lost in Wales).
Replies: 2
Views: 3336

Re: Can anyone recognize this game? (Lost in Wales).

It turned up about seven years ago, mentioned in a post on World of Spectrum, and we discussed it there back then. It's cropped up a few times in discussion since but nobody has ever managed to identify the author or the source of the game.

(Given the identical content of your post to the post on ...
by Strident
Thu May 09, 2019 6:59 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Random game link failing
Replies: 18
Views: 15749

Re: Random game link failing

The game is listed with the title ---> Greg Lemon/Soda - Bacardi Feeling!
I would imagine the '/' in the game name is causing the issue as it's inaccessible even from the search page.

There is also a second game....
Greg Lemon/Hood - Ritter des Rechts
which also has a slash in its name
http ...
by Strident
Tue May 07, 2019 2:01 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Anyone know/remember this text adventure?
Replies: 4
Views: 23283

Re: Anyone know/remember this text adventure?

Still haven't spotted anything like this referenced online, even scouring the text of the magazines stored on the Internet archive.

The closest I've come across is The Pilgrim's Progress, which is based on a similar allegorical piece, albeit an English one, from 1678.

Maybe it only exists in a ...
by Strident
Fri Apr 12, 2019 8:58 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Hi all - submitted some solutions
Replies: 8
Views: 6667

Re: Hi all - submitted some solutions

Some interesting videos on your YouTube, Ben. It's particularly nice to see the walkthrough for the SAM Coupe title Days of Sorcery, having heavily been involved in the SAM Coupe adventure scene back in the day.