| Hidden Letters |
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| Release Date | 1983 |
| Original Publisher | Poppy Programs (UK) |
| Min. Hardware | ZX-Spectrum 48K |
| Language | English |
| Genre | General: Education |
| Max. Players | 1 |
| Original Price | £4.50 |
| Original Price according to SPOT/SPEX | 6.00 *** Data provided by SPOT/SPEX is unconfirmed. Please help us validate this information! |
Authors/Contributors
| Geoffrey R. Sampson (UK) | - ? | ||
| Vera Sampson (UK) | - ? |
Remarks
| Vera recalls: "Hidden Letters was our most important program. It either randomly, or according to an algorithm chosen by the teacher, blanked out certain words in a text, which players then had to guess. It had various levels of difficulty. The one thing which we wanted, but could never manage with the memory in a Spectrum, was to get it to accept viable synonyms for words. A revolutionary feature of Hidden Letters was an overlay which we manufactured for the Spectrum keyboard. I was concerned that young children learned lower case letters before capitals, and therefore were having difficulty with the Spectrum keyboard. The overlay was based on a piece of plastic, called a keyboard overlay, which could be bought, and which had cut outs for the keys, which fit over the keys and nicely stayed in place. I then had the lower-case keyboard silk screened on a piece of fairly flexible plastic, which I attached to the keyboard overlay with probably double-sided tape. This overlay then rode above the keys when the overlay was pushed down into place, and made life easier for little ones." |
Main File Downloads
| Filename | Release | Machine | Scheme | Language | Comments | |
 | HiddenLetters.tap.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (???) | English | |
| HiddenLetters.tzx.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (None) | English |
Additional File Downloads
| Filename | Size | Release | Type | Language | Comments | |
| HiddenLetters.scr | 6,912 | Original | Loading screen | |||
| HiddenLetters.gif | 1,538 | Original | Running screen |
Magazine Reviews
| Home Computing Weekly | issue #31-1983/Oct/4 special "week#1" | page 29 | - Review |
Magazine References
| ZX Computing | issue #11-1984/Feb | page 85 | - News/Note |
Magazine Advertisements
| Home Computing Weekly | issue #19-1983/Jul/12 special "week#2" | page 45 | - Classified | |
| Personal Computing Today | issue v.2 #4-1983/Nov | page 128 | - Advert | |
| Sinclair User | issue #18-1983/Sep | page 138 | - Classified | |
| Sinclair User | issue #21-1983/Dec | page 201 | - Classified | |
| Sinclair User | issue #23-1984/Feb | page 149 | - Classified | |
| Sinclair User | issue #25-1984/Apr | page 144 | - Classified | |
| Sinclair User | issue #26-1984/May | page 144 | - Classified | |
| Sinclair User | issue #27-1984/Jun | page 144 | - Classified | |
| ZX Computing | issue #9-1983/Oct | page 152 | - Classified | |
| ZX Computing | issue #10-1983/Dec | page 192 | - Classified | |
| ZX Computing | issue #11-1984/Feb | page 145 | - Classified | |
| ZX Computing | issue #12-1984/Apr | page 152 | - Classified | |
| ZX Computing | issue #13-1984/Jun | page 153 | - Classified | |
| ZX Computing | issue #14-1984/Aug | page 136 | - Classified |
Links
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| Every Game Going | (Multi-Platform Archive) | |
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