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Recovered ZX Spectrum adventures
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2022 11:02 pm
by Strident
Thanks to the generosity of collectors like Steven Brown and the work of André Luna Leão at Planet Sinclair, there has been a steady release of previous missing ZX Spectrum games and variants these past couple of weekends.
I'll post details of ones that Spectrum adventure players will be interested in here.
So far, highlights have included...
A brand new recovery of missing game
Hollis Island
https://planetasinclair.blogspot.com/20 ... d-mia.html
(This was unknown of until last year when we almost arranged for it to be preserved, but Steven has shared his personal copy now)
Preservation of the missing graphical version of
Cursed be the City
https://planetasinclair.blogspot.com/20 ... y-mia.html
(a bonus of the graphical version is that you can actually read the text... the font in the more verbose, text-only version was notoriously difficult to read)
Lots of different variants of 8th Day titles such as Faerie, Cuddles, Ice Station Zero, The Raven etc. Nothing that exciting there but there are minor differences (and occasionally bug-fixes) between the different releases.
More to come as well, I think, including some "unknown" missing stuff.
Re: Recovered ZX Spectrum adventures
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2022 8:48 pm
by Strident
The Rubber Maze is another lost game that's been recovered...
https://planetasinclair.blogspot.com/20 ... nd-of.html
(It wasn't even known about until we spotted it in a photograph of Tim Gilbert's Gilsoft archive in 2019)
Re: Recovered ZX Spectrum adventures
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2022 10:50 pm
by Strident
MIA
Loony Bin and uMIA
Buffer Diamond
are the latest games to be recovered...
https://planetasinclair.blogspot.com/20 ... n-mia.html
...both Spectrum Quilled games from the same author, D. K. Williams.
Re: Recovered ZX Spectrum adventures
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2022 8:02 am
by Strident
The two-part* adventure The Wight Smugglers has now been recovered...
https://planetasinclair.blogspot.com/20 ... s-mia.html
*Only part one of the game is finished. Given part two is incomplete, part one may not have been play-tested; so player beware.

Re: Recovered ZX Spectrum adventures
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2022 9:57 am
by Alex
I've downloaded the game and wanted to play it but I only get a black screen. I use ZXspin 0.7. Maybe I do something wrong.
Re: Recovered ZX Spectrum adventures
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2022 10:26 am
by Alex
I solved it. I had to swap to 48k. It does not work in 128k mode.
Re: Recovered ZX Spectrum adventures
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2022 2:25 pm
by Garry
Wow, that was quick. It must be a small game.
Re: Recovered ZX Spectrum adventures
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2022 4:35 pm
by Alex
Garry wrote: Thu Feb 17, 2022 2:25 pm
Wow, that was quick. It must be a small game.
I did not solve the game yet, I solved my problem of loading the game

Still playing.
Re: Recovered ZX Spectrum adventures
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:07 pm
by Alex
Strident wrote: Thu Feb 17, 2022 8:02 am
*Only part one of the game is finished. Given part two is incomplete, part one may not have been play-tested; so player beware.
Part 1 is fine. I only noticed one small bug where you can't return to a certain location although the room description says you can, but that was no problem for solving the game.
I've uploaded a map and a solution.
Re: Recovered ZX Spectrum adventures
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:39 pm
by Strident
Alex wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:07 pm
Part 1 is fine. I only noticed one small bug where you can't return to a certain location although the room description says you can, but that was no problem for solving the game.
I've uploaded a map and a solution.
Good to hear... probably better than the author's previous adventure, then.

Re: Recovered ZX Spectrum adventures
Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2022 1:39 pm
by Strident
New Adventure Systems for the Spectrum (1984)
A complete scan of the book, together with typed-in versions of most of the listings, is included in this Spectrum Computing forum thread...
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/ ... =30&t=6468
Some of the games would qualify as "classic" adventures; others are combat/RPG or graphical maze games.
Re: Recovered ZX Spectrum adventures
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2022 5:23 pm
by Strident
Posting this here, to remind me to go through these recently recovered Spanish titles...
https://trastero.speccy.org/2017/Aventuras/090822.htm