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by dave
Fri Dec 02, 2011 5:00 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: R. Dunn - the same author or two different people?
Replies: 4
Views: 3773

Re: R. Dunn - the same author or two different people?

Good investigation work! I've removed Terror Castle now.

It's so much easier when you have a copy of the game!
by dave
Thu Dec 01, 2011 12:21 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: duplicate game
Replies: 1
Views: 1808

Re: duplicate game

Fixed!
by dave
Thu Dec 01, 2011 12:19 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: iD is not a text adventure
Replies: 2
Views: 2279

Re: iD is not a text adventure

I've deleted the entry now.
by dave
Thu Dec 01, 2011 12:16 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: R. Dunn - the same author or two different people?
Replies: 4
Views: 3773

Re: R. Dunn - the same author or two different people?

Hard to tell; "R. Dunn" is not the most unique anglo-saxon initial and surname; but there's a couple of years between the two games so it could be the same author. More research is needed.

Then again, a quick search found a game for the BBC called Horror Castle (which can be found in the database ...
by dave
Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:46 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Any French Speakers on here?
Replies: 49
Views: 28789

Re: Any French Speakers on here?

For the ZX81, the entries are either already in, or I've already ruled out, except for the following:
Encounter
Gametape III 3D
Starquest
Trader
by dave
Tue Nov 29, 2011 11:59 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Any French Speakers on here?
Replies: 49
Views: 28789

Re: Any French Speakers on here?

There's a game called La Caverne des Lutins (for the Victor Lambda computer) which, according to the review (pages 13 and 14 ) in the September/October 1982 issue of Tilt , is a pure text adventure in French with a parser. I don't know if it's a translation or not, though.
And another computer to ...
by dave
Sat Nov 26, 2011 5:28 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Any French Speakers on here?
Replies: 49
Views: 28789

Re: Any French Speakers on here?

Here's an ad from French magazine Tilt (March/April 1983) which lists some software for the PHC:
Thanks for the advert. Just a warning: don't click on the image; the site it takes you to has adult adverts! Fortunately I wasn't reading this on my work laptop! (Gunness/Alastair, any chance of ...
by dave
Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:56 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Any French Speakers on here?
Replies: 49
Views: 28789

Re: Any French Speakers on here?

the Sanyo PHC-25 has all these keywords.
http://www.phc25.com/presse/brochure_a.htm
And, yet another platform for us - I can only find one adventure: La guerre du feu. But I'm sure there'll be others. Having had a quick look on Google, it appears that Sanyo then went MSX, but still called their ...
by dave
Wed Nov 23, 2011 10:51 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Any French Speakers on here?
Replies: 49
Views: 28789

Re: Any French Speakers on here?

So these are modern unofficial ports? In the past we've tried to stay away from unofficial ports (although some are on the site). It gets more complicated with adventures published with source and conversion notes for multiple machines.

I guess it's down to Gunness as to whether these are ...
by dave
Sat Nov 19, 2011 10:56 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Tunnelmaze, Underground Adventure et.al.
Replies: 7
Views: 3279

Re: Tunnelmaze, Underground Adventure et.al.

I've added a note to the game: I found the version of Castlemaze for the Sharp MZ-80K on a collection tape from the Sharp Users Club. So I'm guessing it's an unofficial conversion.
by dave
Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:46 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: revision MSX games
Replies: 7
Views: 4379

Re: revision MSX games

I wonder whether some of these games are for some of the pre-MSX (or near MSX) computers, like the SC-3000 and the SVI-318? There seems to be a lot of confusion in the scene about MSX machines, probably as BlueMSX will run the near MSX computers.
by dave
Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:00 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: duplicate game
Replies: 1
Views: 1660

Re: duplicate game

Fixed (well, deleted); thanks.
by dave
Sun Aug 07, 2011 6:57 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Duplicate entry
Replies: 3
Views: 2446

Re: Duplicate entry

Fixed
by dave
Tue Jun 14, 2011 12:19 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: another technical question
Replies: 4
Views: 2095

Re: another technical question

It sounds like the SWAP file hasn't been created. If you start the emulator and do a "Load Disc 0" from the menu, then type in *CAT, you should see a SWAP file. If it isn't there then I may have to do some digging.
by dave
Sun Jun 12, 2011 10:00 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: another technical question
Replies: 4
Views: 2095

Re: another technical question

From having a quick look inside the program (adv2) it tries to load a file called SWAP (which I presume is saved at the end of the first adventure). By default Beeb-Em write protects inserted discs, so saving this file would fail.

You can switch off write protect, by going File->Disc Options and ...