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Games for Spectrum, C64, Amstrad, Amiga, Apple ][ and the rest of the 8-bit and 16-bit platforms. Pleas for help, puzzles, bug reports etc.

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Re: 8bitAG.com/info

#16 Post by Strident » Mon Aug 17, 2020 5:16 pm

auraes wrote:
Mon Aug 17, 2020 3:36 pm
May I suggest you to use a high-performance compressor for your png picture files? A gain of more than 60% appears on some pictures.
https://compresspng.com/
Thanks for the link. At the moment I'm not particularly bothered about compressing the pictures; I know they're not saved in a particularly economical format. My info pages are mainly just "work in progress" notes for me... I just snip the images as a record of what I've found. Should I ever decide to present them in a more formal format then I would go back and re-edit/compress everything.

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#17 Post by auraes » Tue Aug 18, 2020 6:45 am

I apologize; I didn't know what I was reading was "just notes"! I was a bit surprised by the "loading screen" aspect of some of the images being loaded, although this is partly due to my poor Internet connection. Everything's all right.

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#18 Post by Strident » Mon Mar 01, 2021 1:53 pm

I've recently added a profile of Jack Lockerby and River Software...
http://8bitag.com/info/river.html

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#19 Post by Denk » Mon Mar 01, 2021 11:11 pm

Strident wrote:
Mon Mar 01, 2021 1:53 pm
I've recently added a profile of Jack Lockerby and River Software...
http://8bitag.com/info/river.html
Very nice. I was thinking, that an article like this could inspire IF players from other branches of IF to look at Jack Lockerby's games. Many American IF players like the original Adventure and also the two-word parser games by Scott Adams. I don't think the step from those games to those of Jack Lockerby is a big step.

So I think it is worth mentioning this on intfiction.org. However, it would also be good to mention that Jack would have been 100 years old now (99?), so it is a sort of celebration. To do that, we would need to know his birthday. Not sure if anyone knows that? (I only know he died on the 12 April 2014, 93 years old)

In any case, I think it would be good to put the link on intfiction.org too.

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