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- Thu Dec 10, 2020 12:07 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Plagiarised game
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2536
Plagiarised game
Interesting, one of Steve Lucas' games... The Monster's Final Hour http://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C7182/Monster%27s+Final+Hour%2C+The.html ...is a pretty blatent rip-off of... Frankenstein Adventure http://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C3959/Frankenstein+Adventure.html ...a 1981 game by John R. ...
- Thu Dec 10, 2020 12:04 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Steve W. Lucas games
- Replies: 49
- Views: 298682
Steve W. Lucas games
I've just randomly disappeared down the Steve Lucas rabbit hole... There seems to be a lot of similarities between his games on different platforms which aren't currently noted in the database... For examples... Pharoah's Curse http://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C2126/Pharoah%27s+Curse.html and The...
- Mon Dec 07, 2020 1:29 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Double entry?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2995
Re: Double entry?
Yes, they appear to be the same game so the entries could be combined, especially given the solution on the original database entry is specifically for the original Aardvark release.
I wonder how many of those formats are actual official releases.
I wonder how many of those formats are actual official releases.
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 9:13 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: When can I expect my submissions to be approved?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4797
Re: When can I expect my submissions to be approved?
Denk is a very experienced text adventure author, as well as a valued contributor to many other IF sites out there.
http://solutionarchive.com/list/author%2C1945/
http://solutionarchive.com/list/author%2C1945/
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 8:50 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: When can I expect my submissions to be approved?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4797
Re: When can I expect my submissions to be approved?
I've processed your two other edits/additions. It's only your review that an admin needs to approve/add now. You'll see the site get updated multiple times every single day. A lot of us are adding our our research, or updating elements of listings like screenshots and plot/notes. We're not necessari...
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 8:34 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: When can I expect my submissions to be approved?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4797
Re: When can I expect my submissions to be approved?
It very much depends what the submissions are, how much work is involved adding them, and which admins have time available to process updates... Not everyone works on the same aspects of the site; and some more complicated submissions, especially those requiring additional research, often require a ...
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:30 am
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: Arctic Adventure
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1599
Re: Arctic Adventure
Well spotted. I've added a basic page for it. http://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C89 ... nture.html
- Sun Nov 29, 2020 4:02 pm
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: Gilsoft PAW/Quill
- Replies: 49
- Views: 35324
- Sun Nov 29, 2020 12:58 pm
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: Gilsoft PAW/Quill
- Replies: 49
- Views: 35324
Re: Gilsoft PAW/Quill
There seems to be a small error in The Quill Reference Guide in Other Observations & Notes: The C64 version also uses, in the tables, the character * rather than _. That's been corrected in the current version I am working on. The various versions of Adventure Writer use the asterisk too. PAW uses ...
- Sat Nov 28, 2020 8:44 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: [Shogoth] "All copies of the game were destroyed in a house fire"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2894
- Wed Nov 25, 2020 11:42 am
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: Westbury Mystery
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9116
Re: Westbury Mystery
Are you using the extracted database for a particular purpose? Are you porting the game to another format? The missing section is highly likely just to have an initial JUMP entry, that should be fairly easy to guess at and recreate from playing the game. It certainly won't be a TWIS entry, as the ex...
- Wed Nov 25, 2020 8:47 am
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Duplicate games & games that should be deleted
- Replies: 59
- Views: 259815
Re: Duplicate games & games that should be deleted
I would agree with those particular deletions. They're not really examples of the real edge-cases that are currently in the database.
- Mon Nov 23, 2020 5:22 pm
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: Westbury Mystery
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9116
Re: Westbury Mystery
This section... cd0: ??28?? cd1: INVEN cd2: ??24?? 6 22 cd5: ANYKEY cd6: ??29?? cd7: ANYKEY cd8: ??3b?? is not connected to the earlier TWIS * entry. as that terminates with a done. So the section of code above seems to be one, or potentially two, different entries that site between TWIS * and JUMP ...
- Mon Nov 23, 2020 5:11 pm
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: Westbury Mystery
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9116
Re: Westbury Mystery
The QL had a native RAMSAVE/RAMLOAD command and the Spectrum version had Ramsave through The Patch. I'm not familiar enough with C64 Quill (or C64 Quilled games) to know how authors manage to implement it in that system. A third-party code tweak could easily explain the issues with unQuill etc.
- Mon Nov 23, 2020 8:50 am
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: Westbury Mystery
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9116
Re: Westbury Mystery
Does the rest of the database look okay apart from the section you've posted? We've used unQuill on some heavily modified Quilled games in the past and, although the database initially looks readable, it quite often it doesn't make much sense when you look at it closely... especially if the data has...