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by Alastair
Tue Dec 29, 2015 11:25 pm
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964672

Re: Adventure Challenge

Alex, if everyone else is taking a temporary break I think you can flout the rules and have another guess.
by Alastair
Mon Dec 28, 2015 12:00 am
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964672

Re: Adventure Challenge

Alex wrote:To catch a rainbow?
No.
by Alastair
Sun Dec 27, 2015 12:00 am
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964672

Re: Adventure Challenge

I hope everyone had an excellent Christmas, but before anyone thinks they can take a well earned rest I've decided that I'm not going to wait until the New Year before posting the next puzzle. Enjoy, or not as the case may be...


Game 13

Clue 1:
Clue_13-1.jpg
by Alastair
Thu Dec 24, 2015 12:19 am
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964672

Re: Adventure Challenge

Gunness wrote:I'll bow out of the challenge for the next few days (there's some oddball event called "Christmas" coming up).
Same problem here, except I also have to come up with a game and some clues. So if you people don't mind, it may be a couple of days or so before the next contest is posted.
by Alastair
Wed Dec 23, 2015 12:25 am
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964672

Re: Adventure Challenge

Alex wrote:Alastair, good thinking :thumb: maybe the next clue will help :
No it doesn't! I got to thinking that it was a soap bubble and the spaceship was landing thus giving "Soap Land", but this new clue leaves me floundering (yet again).
by Alastair
Tue Dec 22, 2015 12:51 am
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964672

Re: Adventure Challenge

The only game with bubble in the title is 'Bubble Bobble - The Adventure' but I don't see how the flying saucer applies to that name.
by Alastair
Fri Dec 18, 2015 12:00 am
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964672

Re: Adventure Challenge

Alex wrote:Another name for a 100 pound note is TON.
To be pedantic, a hundred anything is a ton. E.g., doing a ton on the motorway (not that I would ever dream of exceeding the speed limit - just in case GCHQ is listening :lol: ).
by Alastair
Tue Nov 24, 2015 12:44 am
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: The Slightly Tricky Locations Quiz
Replies: 14
Views: 137743

Re: The Slightly Tricky Locations Quiz

I'm guessing that Game 5 is Zork II.
by Alastair
Fri Nov 20, 2015 12:34 am
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964672

Re: Adventure Challenge

The Clue 1 is actually a little rebus: each picture should suggest one (and only one) word, and if you combine these two words (or rather the sound of these words), you should get a new word which is the solution.

After the original clue I thought it might be Animal Land Murder Case , now I'm ...
by Alastair
Tue Nov 17, 2015 12:47 am
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964672

Re: Adventure Challenge

Gunness wrote:This often happens to
Small children
Teenagers during class
Grown-ups during long meeting
Odd, there's no game called 'Rapt Attention' in the database.
by Alastair
Sun Jun 07, 2015 11:24 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Searching for Adventure Game
Replies: 8
Views: 3497

Re: Searching for Adventure Game

I do not recognise any game from the description but the use of the term 'black light' does suggest that it is an American game, though I realise that this is probably of little help.

The best I can do is suggest the site's Advanced search facility. Although this does not offer a country of origin ...
by Alastair
Fri May 01, 2015 11:51 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: A rambling of sorts.
Replies: 13
Views: 32096

Re: A rambling of sorts.

Jacob, have you tried using MESS to emulate a TRS-80?
by Alastair
Sat Mar 28, 2015 12:40 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: To Preserve Quandic Trs80-coco
Replies: 6
Views: 2432

Re: To Preserve Quandic Trs80-coco

Thanks Alex. The Dragon Archive download was one of the copies I was thinking of, the other is contained within a file called 'Briza's Collection' which is a 800+ MB zip file! In the unlikely event that you do not want to download such a large file I have uploaded the relevant disk images below. I ...
by Alastair
Fri Mar 27, 2015 11:39 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: To Preserve Quandic Trs80-coco
Replies: 6
Views: 2432

Re: To Preserve Quandic Trs80-coco

Alex, it would be helpful if you could tell us where you downloaded your copy. Then at least I could file compare the non-working copy with a couple of images I have managed to find.
by Alastair
Wed Feb 11, 2015 12:15 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Best beginner's game in English for non-native speakers
Replies: 14
Views: 68208

Re: Best beginner's game in English for non-native speakers

Note that although the set-up download for Giant Killer is a Windows executable, the game itself is a DOS program.