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by Alastair
Mon Apr 04, 2011 5:52 pm
Forum: The modern era
Topic: BEST text adventure maker to use to REMAKE a game....
Replies: 6
Views: 12022

Re: BEST text adventure maker to use to REMAKE a game....

Hope to have this one done soon too; currently playing the game using Apple // WIN and typing all the commands, locations, items and etc to a text editor on the same screen. ;) Would Ciderpress http://ciderpress.sourceforge.net/ be of any help here? It may allow you to copy and paste the text ...
by Alastair
Fri Apr 01, 2011 11:44 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Forbidden Quest 1983
Replies: 9
Views: 26599

Re: Forbidden Quest 1983

dave wrote:I assume you're William Pryor, credited as an author on Moby Games?
No he isn't, I've already checked that out. ;)
(See http://www.homeoftheunderdogs.net/game.php?id=2148)
by Alastair
Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:50 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Egyptian Adventure - BBC Micro
Replies: 17
Views: 8117

Re: Egyptian Adventure - BBC Micro

Why not just write a hint sheet instead of a full walkthrough. You usually can do this from memory, and it's more fun for future players to have some guesswork left. The site offers both hints and solutions so that players can choose the option they prefer. Furthermore, a problem with hints is that ...
by Alastair
Thu Mar 03, 2011 10:40 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Sort of old-ish new member, or new-ish old member
Replies: 10
Views: 25586

Re: Sort of old-ish new member, or new-ish old member

There's no reason why there can't be two ways of reaching the guides.
by Alastair
Thu Mar 03, 2011 10:39 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Out of Date Emulator Links
Replies: 27
Views: 15607

Re: Out of Date Emulator Links

Re. VICE. The old link was the official page but if you look at the bottom of the page you will see that they moved over to SourceForge. That said, it was only when someone on an OS/2 forum mentioned a new version of VICE was available and gave the new link that I realised that the page had moved ...
by Alastair
Wed Mar 02, 2011 11:42 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Sort of old-ish new member, or new-ish old member
Replies: 10
Views: 25586

Re: Sort of old-ish new member, or new-ish old member

The guides are available by clicking their respective platforms.
It is a bit of a convoluted process to reach a guide: you have to either click on a platform link from within a game entry, or do a direct search for that platform, either way you then have to click on the "starting guide" link to ...
by Alastair
Wed Mar 02, 2011 11:35 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Out of Date Emulator Links
Replies: 27
Views: 15607

Re: Out of Date Emulator Links

VICE has a new website where you will find version 2.3 at http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/

Also, I think Samwise has located the new official page for Apple II Oasis (now at version 2.6), this site's current link does little more than link back to the defunct Geocities site.
by Alastair
Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:40 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: aftermath Spectrum Computing 1985
Replies: 31
Views: 8184

Re: aftermath Spectrum Computing 1985

Is the glowing rock hot? If so then perhaps you do not need matches.
by Alastair
Sat Feb 12, 2011 12:03 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: CASA slowness
Replies: 7
Views: 3328

Re: CASA slowness

Terri,

Re. Jet Lag. If I remember correctly, eastward flights are supposed to be worse than westward flights.

Re. Internet speeds during a day. In Europe there is a noticeable drop in trans-Atlantic speed when the USA 'wakes up', so for the drop off you mention you should probably blame those ...
by Alastair
Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:54 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: CASA slowness
Replies: 7
Views: 3328

Re: CASA slowness

Gunness wrote:Has anyone else experienced slow loading of the site?
I have, but then during the same period some other sites were also slow. So in my cases it was probably down to my ISP or general internet slowness rather than something specific to this site.
by Alastair
Sun Jan 30, 2011 8:22 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Any French Speakers on here?
Replies: 49
Views: 28878

Re: Any French Speakers on here?

Are there any BASIC experts here who could tell us if there were actually other BASICs than the one from the Amstrad CPC with all these keywords?
ASC
CLS
DATA
DIM
INKEY$
LEFT$
LEN
LOCATE
MID$
ON <variable name> GOTO
READ
RIGHT$
VAL

LOCATE is the key here as all of the others can be ...
by Alastair
Sun Jan 30, 2011 8:14 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: About the platforms/Japanese games
Replies: 15
Views: 7528

Re: About the platforms/Japanese games

Hi,
when looking at the Coleco Adam games list I noticed it contained Infocom adventures, I was wondering if these are genuine platform specific releases or just the CP/M versions runable on the computer. If CP/M was officially released for the Adam then any CP/M game that can run on the Adam may ...
by Alastair
Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:07 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Escape from Raka Tua
Replies: 7
Views: 2664

Re: Escape from Raka Tua

df wrote:[Heavily snipped] I'm an MVS fan, I even did that whole fan site for them you have on casa
http://solutionarchive.com/Mvs/index.php
That's an interesting little subsection to the site that I never noticed before, but shouldn't it refreshed with the site's new colour scheme?
by Alastair
Sun Dec 19, 2010 9:06 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Duplicate Entries
Replies: 40
Views: 13781

Re: Duplicate Entries

Before I edit, we think that the publisher is Alfo Software and the author is Ad Lomer (is it A. D. Lomer or Ad. Lomer)? I think the publisher is Alfo Software and the author (or one of the authors) is Mr. Lomer. As for his name, I don't know. As far as I can tell the name "Ad. Lomer" comes from ...
by Alastair
Sun Dec 19, 2010 12:25 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Duplicate Entries
Replies: 40
Views: 13781

Re: Duplicate Entries

The advert does mention school days and it seems that the Ad Lomer game's protagonist is a schoolboy. The advert also mentions amazing cartoon graphics, and the Ad Lomer game does sport amazingly poor :lol: graphics including the one below. Could the name Alfo come from the initials of Ad Lomer and ...