Spectrum Computing

Alessandro wrote: ↑Fri Nov 02, 2018 4:59 pm Another dead end...

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I managed to spill some of the monster's blood on the floor, but I cannot pick it up. I tried with the bottle but I cannot make any use of it.

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Something from one of the kitchens will help you here. You may have seen it already but had no use for it until now.

Thanks! It's always hard to know how an adventure will be received so it's great to see so many people playing and enjoying it!

Did you check the bath? Perhaps something to help you go fishing would help? I suspected that too. I guess I have to use the hook to get the item out of the bath, but the hook won't come away, and nothing in my possession seems to help. There's something in the bathroom itself that'll help you with...

I am blocked a bit later in the adventure :) I have a disturbing photo and a very scared cat under a sofa. Could you give me a hint? P.S.: By the way, I am enjoying it a lot so far. If this is going to be the quality of the story in the new zx spectrum adventures, I am very keen on their revival! P...

Cryptic clue:

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Torches are so old-fashioned, nobody needs one in this day and age.

Not silly, it's a beautiful font!

http://www.type-invaders.com/sinclair/clairsys/

Today I'm releasing a new spooky text adventure for the Speccy 128 called 'Unhallowed'. It’s Halloween and you’re on your way home from work, tired and hungry and wanting nothing more than to put your feet up in front of the TV. But something dark and evil lurks within your home, waiting for you to ...

The ZX7 compressed TAP generator got mostly finished but I went off to write a Z80 assembler that mostly got finished and then Summer came and I went off into the great outdoors and haven't coded anything in months! Aha! So it didn't fall out of a portal from an alternate universe after all! :) Was...

Hmm... it seems to save a SZX even if I change the file extension. Only SZX, Z80 and SNA available in the file selector dialog.

Going through some old files today I found a TAP file of Short Circuit 128, dated May 2017. It displays this message at the start of loading: https://i.postimg.cc/z30GCqpB/specemu-tape.png Anyone know where I got this from? I'm pretty sure I have the latest SpecEmu but I can't see an option to gener...

13: Hardball
20: Jocky Wilson's Compendium of Darts

17 is driving me nuts, I know what it is but I can't place it.

14 is Pyracurse.

Not a +2, but I used to use this with my Toastrack and it worked fine. Does it work on an emulated +2? The turbo loader was ridiculously fast, perhaps the poor old +2 tape deck is having issues? Even if you get it to load it won't use the extra memory, only the base 48k. To be honest you're loads be...

I wonder if it was a bit late in the day - most of the mags had stopped doing much 'serious' stuff by the time The Press came out. I *think* I've figured this out now. There are another pair of programs on the tape called 'auto savers' which aren't really very well explained and I thought they were ...

Yeah, it was always my understanding that RND returned a number of 0 or greater but always less than 1, therefore INT(RND*187) would give you what you want. If it's possible for RND to return a value of 1 I've never seen it happen!

From what I understand The Expander is actually something completely separate which allows you to use memory which isn't usually available to The Quill for extra messages and locations... Unless I've misread that part of the manual completely. You can also load The Press directly into The Quill, so ...

Does anyone know how to use Gilsoft's "The Press" successfully? I've been trying to use it to compress the text in some old, half done Quill adventures but I can't help feeling I'm missing a step. I load my Quilled database into the program and compress it as per the instructions, saving a...

This is fascinating, and very clearly explained - thanks for taking the time, [mention]Ast A. Moore[/mention]!

I have looked at Microsoft Visual Code. It looks promising as it runs on both Linux and Windows. I did try and read the bit about calling external commands to make build calls but I got thoroughly confused! Is there any chance you could expand on this with some examples? Sure - VS Code is a bit bar...

That looks like some distressingly organised and well-commented code... :o Partly because I do code for a living and partly because it helps greatly while I'm learning. Quite often I come back to routines weeks later and can't remember for the life of me why I did something a certain way, so leavin...

Here's my setup: Microsoft's ' Visual Studio Code ' for editing (it has a plug-in for Pasmo/Z80 highlighting which should also work for most assemblers). Pasmo for assembling. SpecEmu for debugging. BitBucket for source control. VS Code makes for an excellent Z80 editor, it's not just for modern lan...

Theatre Europe?

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=5224

I'd second adding Gyroscope, and also Gryzor - an excellent conversion.

And it's never going to win, but I have a real soft spot for Sinclair User's cover-tape exclusive, Go Bear Go!

Blimey, this was the toughest one yet - loads of great games and no 'clear' winner. Eventually went with Fairlight, although I feel a bit guilty for Fred and Frank N Stein. And Feud. And Firelord. And Firefly. And Frankie. Oh no!