I'm pretty sure that D. Van Kan, of Death Satellite and Pyramid, is Danny Van Kan as he also contributed programs to Sega Computer magazine.
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- Wed Sep 01, 2021 8:13 am
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
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- Wed Sep 01, 2021 7:21 am
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: Grandstand Leisure
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Re: Grandstand Leisure
Thanks to Garry's files, I can now verify that Enterprise Escape is actually a port of Bob Retelle's Trek Adventure.
Death Satellite seems familiar, but I can't spot anything that matches so perhaps, especially as it has an actual author name associated with it, it was an original game.
Death Satellite seems familiar, but I can't spot anything that matches so perhaps, especially as it has an actual author name associated with it, it was an original game.
- Wed Sep 01, 2021 7:07 am
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
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Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
Thanks for those. They seem to work great.
And, yes, Enterprise Escape is actually just Bob Retelle's Trek Adventure https://bluerenga.blog/2019/04/08/trek-adventure-1980/
I wonder if Aardvark et al. were paid for these games?
And, yes, Enterprise Escape is actually just Bob Retelle's Trek Adventure https://bluerenga.blog/2019/04/08/trek-adventure-1980/
I wonder if Aardvark et al. were paid for these games?
- Tue Aug 31, 2021 3:06 pm
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
- Replies: 93
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Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
I wouldn't mind giving them a go. I'm not particularly enjoying the "MAME" experience.Garry wrote: Tue Aug 31, 2021 8:44 am I'm a bit hesitant to make these widely available until I've tested them, but if anyone wants a copy, perhaps I could post them here.
- Tue Aug 31, 2021 9:03 am
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
- Replies: 93
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Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
After much skullduggery, I've managed to get three of the Grandstand Leisure titles onto disk. This means you can play them on blueMSX, which is far better than struggling with MAME. The three titles are: Death Satellite, Enterprise Escape and Mars Adventurer. I'll send some screen grabs shortly ...
- Tue Aug 31, 2021 8:33 am
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
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Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
Crusader... from the same advert... Probably not an adventure? Or certainly something more combat orientated...
- Tue Aug 31, 2021 8:29 am
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
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Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
Pyramids from Mars by Software Concepts
- Tue Aug 31, 2021 8:19 am
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
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Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
Good work. I'll try to do some screen grabs when I can get MAME to behave and extra details as they come to hand.
Two that you're missing are 'Alien' and 'Case of the Mad Mummy' from Dotsoft. Annoyingly, some of the Dotsoft games go by different names on different platforms under different ...
- Mon Aug 30, 2021 3:36 pm
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
- Replies: 93
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Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
I've added skeleton entries for the games we've found; so we've gone from eight to twenty-six games for the SC-3000 now.
https://solutionarchive.com/list/platform%2C75/
All the entries will need screenshots, where available, and padding out a little.
https://solutionarchive.com/list/platform%2C75/
All the entries will need screenshots, where available, and padding out a little.
- Mon Aug 30, 2021 11:56 am
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: New Zealand Adventures
- Replies: 5
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Re: New Zealand Adventures
The New Zealand vintage computing community is great... They've already shared a picture of a load of Antarctic ZX81 titles... with at least one new adventure in there...
- Mon Aug 30, 2021 9:16 am
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: New Zealand Adventures
- Replies: 5
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Re: New Zealand Adventures
I found a ZX-81 snapshot of Robots on Terminal IV at http://bukstergames.bizhat.com/ . This is definitely a text adventure. It's a bit difficult to play because you need to press the dot key for a space and the keyboard appears to be partially crippled, e.g. no backspace.
Excellent find, Garry ...
- Sun Aug 29, 2021 4:32 pm
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
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Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
Yep, me too.Garry wrote: Sun Aug 29, 2021 4:26 pm Woohoo! I've worked out how to enable the SC-3000 keyboard in MAME and now I've got the Megacart working.
- Sun Aug 29, 2021 4:12 pm
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
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Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
Yeah, I've joined the SC-3000 group on Facebook. They seem to have a lot of the files in a usable format (not sure usable on what, though :) ) but don't seem to have any sort of central archive for them... Although they seem to share them if you ask.
I'm just having a look at having a go at getting ...
I'm just having a look at having a go at getting ...
- Sun Aug 29, 2021 1:09 pm
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: New Zealand Adventures
- Replies: 5
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Re: New Zealand Adventures
Gryphon Software of Dunedin
Some of these could potentially fit our definition of a text adventure...
gryphon-software.JPG
Source: https://sites.google.com/site/retrowemuseum/nz
...written by Gryphon Software, Box 7044 Dunedin. There are three role playing adventure titles and one compilation ...
Some of these could potentially fit our definition of a text adventure...
gryphon-software.JPG
Source: https://sites.google.com/site/retrowemuseum/nz
...written by Gryphon Software, Box 7044 Dunedin. There are three role playing adventure titles and one compilation ...
- Sun Aug 29, 2021 1:06 pm
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: New Zealand Adventures
- Replies: 5
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New Zealand Adventures
While I've been looking for SC-3000 text adventures, I've been coming across a lot of other interesting software titles created in New Zealand... several of which could potentially be text adventures.
I'm going to dump some of my findings into this thread and then write them up as entries at a ...
I'm going to dump some of my findings into this thread and then write them up as entries at a ...