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by Garry
Tue Dec 27, 2022 7:17 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Atzeco Adventure
Replies: 20
Views: 18966

Re: Atzeco Adventure

Here 'tis. I haven't checked it, so check it for typos before you use it. I noticed that there are two types of single quotes. One appears to be an Italian special character. I don't know what it's called or how to enter it on a standard keyboard, so I just used single quotes for both of them ...
by Garry
Tue Dec 27, 2022 3:13 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Atzeco Adventure
Replies: 20
Views: 18966

Re: Atzeco Adventure

No idea.
by Garry
Tue Dec 27, 2022 3:06 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Atzeco Adventure
Replies: 20
Views: 18966

Re: Atzeco Adventure

There are two listings, one for the Laser 500 and one for the Laser 310. I'm typing in the latter, as I think this is the most compatible with the VZ 200/300.I'm up to line 1025. I'll post it here when finished.
by Garry
Mon Dec 26, 2022 12:18 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Atzeco Adventure
Replies: 20
Views: 18966

Re: Atzeco Adventure

It's new to me. I've asked if anyone has a copy on the VZ200/300 Facebook group. In the meantime, here's a translation of the article (courtesy of Google Translate) in case you haven't done it already:

Aztec adventure
FOR LASER 500/310

The 16K memory expansion is required for the Laser 210 and 110 ...
by Garry
Mon Dec 19, 2022 1:54 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Dragonstar Trilogy by Fergus McNeill
Replies: 15
Views: 17226

Re: Dragonstar Trilogy by Fergus McNeill

I had some really nice room descriptions that were more concise than the originals, but retained all the flavour. When I had room left over, I changed many of them back to the original. Then I discovered the stone table with the inscription. All the funny characters in the inscription had been ...
by Garry
Sun Dec 18, 2022 2:39 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Dragonstar Trilogy by Fergus McNeill
Replies: 15
Views: 17226

Re: Dragonstar Trilogy by Fergus McNeill

Finished. Just need to test it.
Dragonstar Trilogy Part I, The (Fergus McNeill) screen 01.png
by Garry
Sun Dec 18, 2022 12:27 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Dragonstar Trilogy by Fergus McNeill
Replies: 15
Views: 17226

Re: Dragonstar Trilogy by Fergus McNeill

I'm up to room 85 (that's half way) and I've got 900 bytes free. I reckon the condacts tables take about 368 bytes, so I'll have plenty of room.
by Garry
Sun Dec 18, 2022 11:02 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Dragonstar Trilogy by Fergus McNeill
Replies: 15
Views: 17226

Re: Dragonstar Trilogy by Fergus McNeill

I've got everything in, except for the condacts tables, but they don't look like they're very big. I don't want to change the map, as that's against the spirit of the game, so I've been shortening the room descriptions. I'm trying to keep as much as possible and just chopping out tautology and ...
by Garry
Sun Dec 18, 2022 5:12 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Dragonstar Trilogy by Fergus McNeill
Replies: 15
Views: 17226

Re: Dragonstar Trilogy by Fergus McNeill

You beat me to it. I came to the same conclusions. There are a couple of errors in the conversion from 'I' to 'you' and some of the same bugs as in the original.

I was up late last night. I entered all the vocabulary and room descriptions in AdventureWriter and I've only got 1k left over. Oh, oh. I ...
by Garry
Sat Dec 17, 2022 12:24 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Dragonstar Trilogy by Fergus McNeill
Replies: 15
Views: 17226

Re: Dragonstar Trilogy by Fergus McNeill

Thanks for sorting this out. When I did a search for Dragonstar on Spectrum Computing, only the Delta 4 version showed up. I don't spend much time on that site, so I must have missed something. I've now got both versions, so it will be interesting to see if there's any differences, apart from the 'I ...
by Garry
Sat Dec 17, 2022 11:33 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Dragonstar Trilogy by Fergus McNeill
Replies: 15
Views: 17226

Re: Dragonstar Trilogy by Fergus McNeill

That matches what you said. The 'I' version would be the earlier version. I haven't found a download for the 'you' version.
by Garry
Sat Dec 17, 2022 7:32 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Dragonstar Trilogy by Fergus McNeill
Replies: 15
Views: 17226

Dragonstar Trilogy by Fergus McNeill

I'm currently looking at the 3-part 'The Dragonstar Trilogy' for the ZX Spectrum by Fergus McNeill.

I had this on two files labelled side A and side B. When I looked at side A using Tapir 1.0, I could see that this included part 1 and part 2.

When I loaded part 1, everything is expressed in the ...
by Garry
Wed Nov 30, 2022 10:54 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Powerstar (Atari)
Replies: 24
Views: 30484

Re: Powerstar (Atari)

Regarding the hint sheet...
You mentioned there might be one in your review:
I should've read my own review. :lol:

Thanks for the memories.
by Garry
Wed Nov 30, 2022 2:11 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Powerstar (Atari)
Replies: 24
Views: 30484

Re: Powerstar (Atari)


I had the idea of, I wonder if I can drop an object in a steam room and pick it up (w/o being able to see it), and I could.

Yep, the steam room is a maze and that's the secret to mapping it.

I noticed there occasionally was a room in the steam where the volume dropped slightly, and I thought ...
by Garry
Mon Nov 28, 2022 1:16 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Missing Atari 8-bit titles
Replies: 77
Views: 177969

Re: Missing Atari 8-bit titles

Simple Adventure and Mini Adventure have different authors and different descriptions. I think both were advertised at the same time. One has graphics, the other makes no mention of graphics. We won't know for sure until they are both found.

Page 6 had a lot of exclusive titles, but being public ...