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- Wed Oct 29, 2014 8:29 am
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Phipps/Toms system
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9872
Re: Phipps/Toms system
Aye, 'tis a sorry state of affairs indeed!
But fear not, for a message to the site's owner has been dispatched forthwith
But fear not, for a message to the site's owner has been dispatched forthwith
- Tue Oct 28, 2014 2:45 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Phipps/Toms system
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9872
Re: Phipps/Toms system
He has another one here: http://yeandle.webs.com/advent
though it's not very detailed.
though it's not very detailed.
- Tue Oct 28, 2014 10:27 am
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Phipps/Toms system
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9872
Re: Phipps/Toms system
I've found a site that has reproduced the article, and another that offers a PDF of the article (about two thirds of the way down, under the heading 'Feature articles' - the HTML link on that page is no longer available, except via the Internet Archive).
As it happens, the HTML link is for Graeme ...
As it happens, the HTML link is for Graeme ...
- Mon Oct 27, 2014 4:07 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Phipps/Toms system
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9872
Re: Phipps/Toms system
By the way, I'm a bit puzzled by Greedy Gulch. According to the packaging, it was written "with a machine coded English command line scanner for fast word recognition".
But Toms' system was written in BASIC, right?
But Toms' system was written in BASIC, right?
- Mon Oct 27, 2014 3:45 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Phipps/Toms system
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9872
Re: Phipps/Toms system
I think it makes good sense to add the system. As you point out, every half-baked BASIC system doesn't warrant its own entry, but this one seems special enough to include.
I've added it as Trevor Toms adventure system and written a brief intro. I've located him via LinkedIn and will try to drop him ...
I've added it as Trevor Toms adventure system and written a brief intro. I've located him via LinkedIn and will try to drop him ...
- Thu Oct 23, 2014 7:59 am
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Kuma and Kuma Computers
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3256
Re: Kuma and Kuma Computers
Sorry, missed your post. I'll look into this and update.
- Tue Oct 21, 2014 7:34 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: You are the hero - Fighting Fantasy gamebooks
- Replies: 31
- Views: 90466
Re: You are the hero - Fighting Fantasy gamebooks
I don't know if anyone's seen the new documentary From Bedrooms to Billions (yet) - it charts the British gaming industry from homebrewn BASIC games to gazillion pounds projects. Apart from it being really good and covering an important part of gaming history, it features pretty much all major UK ...
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 11:31 am
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Genre Suggestions
- Replies: 48
- Views: 26316
Re: Genre Suggestions
Lo and behold, Archaelogy has mysteriously appeared!
- Sat Oct 18, 2014 10:39 am
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Genre Suggestions
- Replies: 48
- Views: 26316
Re: Genre Suggestions
Well, "Indiana Jones homage/rip-off" was already taken, but I can already see EIDOS lining up their hot shot lawyers for a billion dollar copyright infringement lawsuit, so...
- Fri Oct 17, 2014 1:07 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Genre Suggestions
- Replies: 48
- Views: 26316
Re: Genre Suggestions
Looking back at those pyramids once more.... would "archaeology" be a good compromise? I could live with it 
- Fri Oct 17, 2014 8:22 am
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Genre Suggestions
- Replies: 48
- Views: 26316
Re: Genre Suggestions
Yes, this has been a royal mess. The (unpublished) company was intended to show that a game such as X-Men was in fact a w.i.p. by Adv. Intl. So if you clicked on AI, the game would turn up in the listing, but clearly be displayed as non-existant.
An entirely new category, Publishing status, is a ...
An entirely new category, Publishing status, is a ...
- Thu Oct 16, 2014 8:57 am
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Genre Suggestions
- Replies: 48
- Views: 26316
Re: Genre Suggestions
One more question re. the lost games - my initial idea was only to use it for games that we positively know to have existed (due to reviews or otherwise). But we have quite a few titles in our database that can only be labelled as dubious - ie. games that we only know of via advertising or otherwise ...
- Thu Oct 16, 2014 8:29 am
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Genre Suggestions
- Replies: 48
- Views: 26316
Re: Genre Suggestions
Ok, I've added a (lost game) genre - so feel free to update where appropriate!
and "archaeology" would be a unnecessarily generic name - I can't recall any games that would fit this genre outside of the ones with the pyramidal setting, anyway
Well there are more games within the archaeological ...
and "archaeology" would be a unnecessarily generic name - I can't recall any games that would fit this genre outside of the ones with the pyramidal setting, anyway
Well there are more games within the archaeological ...
- Wed Oct 15, 2014 11:40 am
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Genre Suggestions
- Replies: 48
- Views: 26316
Re: Genre Suggestions
Perhaps it's an unclear term. I added it recently because I kept bumping into pyramid-themed games. There seem to be a lot of these.
"Egyptian" doesn't suggest the ancient setting, and "archaeology" would be a unnecessarily generic name - I can't recall any games that would fit this genre outside of ...
"Egyptian" doesn't suggest the ancient setting, and "archaeology" would be a unnecessarily generic name - I can't recall any games that would fit this genre outside of ...
- Tue Oct 14, 2014 8:01 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: You are the hero - Fighting Fantasy gamebooks
- Replies: 31
- Views: 90466
Re: You are the hero - Fighting Fantasy gamebooks
Having young children around the house (at least one of whom has been reading FF books) , I can testify that said image might be a bit over the top 