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Host my text adventure?

Apple Fritter about 2 months ago

Hi!  I'm looking for someone here to host my Smir 3, 1 text adventure for me or at least provide a link.  It is at c65 additions - Manage /game at SourceForge.net and is called smir3_1apple.zip.  Anybody?Forums: Apple II …
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Colossal Cave Is Getting A Physical Release For PS5, PS4, PC, & Switch

Time Extension about 4 months ago

Pre-orders are open now!Roberta Williams' modern reimagining of William Crowthers' 1976 text adventure Colossal Cave is getting a physical release for PS4, PS5, PC, and Nintendo Switch, courtesy of Limited Run Games.The game, which was released digitally l …
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8-bit acorn software: classic adventure games • Castle of Riddles competition

Stardot about 5 months ago

In order to promote their new text adventure game, Castle of Riddles, Acornsoft, in conjunction with Your Computer magazine, launched a competition whereby the first person to send in a correct entry would receive a trophy worth £700 and £1,500 of hardw …

ZX Spectrum, ZX81, SAM Coupé, TSConf, QL, Next • ZX Spectrum Top 100 games collection (feat. 274 titles)

MISTerFPGA about 5 months ago

This is a little something I made to have a fun break from my more long-term archival projects. From the description: This collection contains games from 5 different Top 100 ZX Spectrum games lists. Overall it features 274 games altogether (full list belo …
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The Ronin game recovered

Games That Weren't about 6 months ago

Our friends at Atarimania.com have informed us of the recovery of an unreleased text adventure for the Atari 400/800 called The Ronin which has been missing for 39 years. A game that was intended for release eventually by Brøderbund Software, who … …
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Alien Breed Composer Allister Brimble's New Amiga Project Has Some Dodgy AI Imagery

Time Extension about 6 months ago

There's not much to see of 'C64 - The Mysterious Cassette'.Allister Brimble, the composer behind a bunch of classic soundtracks including the various Alien Breed titles, has just contributed some original music for a brand-new release for the Commodore Ami …
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New Releases • Free Release - Tristam Island by Hugo Labrannded just Updated Minimum Price to $0.00

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

https://hlabrande.itch.io/... Author:After crashing your plane at sea, you end up drifting to a small island, with not much to survive. You explore, and find out the island was inhabited, years ago. But why did the people leave? And why is th …
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Protovision • Space-Rat and the Cult of Nonsense

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

Ziggy, the iconic space-rat from the German magazine ASM is about to make a comeback in the form of a #C64 graphical text adventure titled Space-Rat – Cult of Nonsenses.Created using the D42 Adventure System, we are excited to announce that Space-Rat wi …

AdvSkel65 doesn't work on 128k Apple2enh

Apple Fritter about 7 months ago

AttachmentSize Opens a file using ProDOS1.44 KB Reads from and writes to files757 bytes Includes the TA's setup and main() function22.76 KB The header for ProDOSi's functions1.06 KB Hi!  I've been heavily optimizing and improvi …

Upload to asimov didn't go through!

Apple Fritter about 7 months ago

Hi!  I recently tried to e-mail the administrator at asimov.com my Smir 3, 1 text adventure and followed the instructions given and got a reply that the e-mail didn't go through after seveeral attempts.  :(  It must've worked before, as my MadLibApple p …

introduce yourself • Hello one and all..

Stardot about 7 months ago

Thanks for adding me to the forum.I first began using BBC Micro when our school got an early Model B in '82. I spent a fair amount of time learning BASIC and Assembly Language throughout the '80's, and co-authored a less well known text Adventure, publish …
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Microsoft acquires Activision Blizzard

A2Central.com about 7 months ago

Microsoft has completed its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, including the complete library of Infocom's text adventure games. (The post "Microsoft acquires Activision Blizzard" appeared first on A2Central.com.) …
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Retro Rewind: October 1983 in Computer & Video Games

Retro Arcadia about 7 months ago

After a bit of an experiment with the pilot episode of this feature back in August 2023, it seems like I’m not the only one who likes having a look back at old copies of magazines from forty years ago, and while I’m still not quite ready to go monthly …

Smir 3, 1/Apple: advertising?

Apple Fritter about 7 months ago

Hi!  I'm pleased that people like my Smir 3, 1 text adventure even though people have reported bugs in it.  :)  Now, I'm looking for more places to post and advertise the game.  Where can I do that?Forums: Apple II …
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Other 8-bit Commodore computers • Smir 3, 1 C128 version fixed: should work now.

Lemon64 about 8 months ago

Hi! I just uploaded a bug-fixed version of my Smir 3, 1 text adventure: apparently, a stub needed by the program wasn't being written to the disk image during compile. It is at https://sourceforge.net/pro... Posted …
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Help & Support • cc65: #pragma local-strings()?

Lemon64 about 8 months ago

Hi! I am having a problem with cc65, and I posted about this before: when I use the #pragma local-strings() feature od cc65, I don't get the desired results. I want to be able to put specific strings in specific modules in a segment different from the d …
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Scene • CSDb: upload Smir 3, 1?

Lemon64 about 8 months ago

Hi! I am asking somebody here to crack my Smir 3, 1 text adventure and post it on the CSDb. You may add your own intro and one-part it, but I want the game play to be the same. You can find it at https://sourceforge.net/pro... …
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The Smiths Have Just Got Their Own Unofficial Text Adventure Game For C64 & Oric

Time Extension about 8 months ago

And Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now.The Smiths are arguably one of the most important musical groups to emerge from the UK independent scene in the 1980s.The Greater Manchester group was formed in 1982 and comprised lead singer Morrissey, guitarist Johnny M …
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Discovering R.B.I. Baseball on NES

Retro Arcadia about 8 months ago

I regularly come up with stuff here I say I’ll come back to and look at it more detail sometime later, and do you know what? Sooner or later I generally do! Either a man of my word or it just saves me thinking what’s next, take your pick! Let me give …
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The Connoiseur and other Atari prototypes

Games That Weren't about 9 months ago

Our friends at Atarimania.com have informed us of a recent discovery of an unreleased text adventure for the Atari called The Connoiseur. A game that was intended for release by Synapse Software in 1984. The game was archived by the … Continue readin …
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Scene • commodore.software has a buggy version of Smir 3, 1

Lemon64 about 9 months ago

Hi! A couple days ago, I looked on commodore.software for my text adventure, and it is there, but one of the screenshots shows some typos in the intro texts. I have fixed the typos and want to update the new version to commodore.software. However, I tr …
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The Forgotten Pyramid text adventure hits Kickstarter

A2Central.com about 9 months ago

Chris Schneider has launched a Kickstarter for The Forgotten Pyramid, a text adventure releasing for 19 platforms, including the Apple II. (The post "The Forgotten Pyramid text adventure hits Kickstarter" appeared first on A2Central.com.) …
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Other 8-bit Commodore computers • Smir3, 1 text adventure for the C128 available!

Lemon64 about 9 months ago

Hi! I just uploaded the C128 version of my Smir 3, 1 text adventure to my sourceforge.net web site. It is available at https://sourceforge.net/pro... Try it out!Statistics: Posted by Harry Potter — Mon Aug 21, 2023 11:48 am …
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Retro Rewind: August 1982 in Computer & Video Games – Pilot Episode!

Retro Arcadia about 9 months ago

You join me, dear reader, for a bit of an experiment! I started collecting Computer & Video Games magazine in earnest in early 1985, buying every issue every month until the middle of 1992 when, at 20-years old by then, a combination of falling behind …

Apple2enh version of text adventure almost ready

Apple Fritter about 9 months ago

AttachmentSize smir3_1apple.txt1.53 KB smir3_1apple.zip24.53 KB Hi!  I've been working on a game called Adventures on Planet Smir 3, Episode 1.  It is a Sci-Fi/Fantasy text adventure where you have to stop a madman from another dimension from …