Spectrum Computing

Quick update: I've released 1.02, which fixes the "getting stuck" problem described by André, plus a few other niggles. More info and downloads available here: https://blerkotron.itch.io/unhallowed/devlog/55694/unhallowed-v102-released Fantastic, thanks :) Tomorrow will release the review...

Quick update:
I've released 1.02, which fixes the "getting stuck" problem described by André, plus a few other niggles.

More info and downloads available here:
https://blerkotron.itch.io/unhallowed/d ... 2-released

At last completed this brilliant adventure, one of the best I have ever tried. Superb in all aspects, and, as an animal lover and owning 9 cats, I particulary enjoyed Shadow :) Just one small note, if you go to save Shadow without the knife, you get stuck on that room... Review soon at the blog, bu...

Not silly, it's a beautiful font! http://www.type-invaders.com/sinclair/clairsys/ Thank you! It gives me great joy to see Clairsys being used. And congrats: very nice work on the adventure! -Paul I spent so long staring at it in the PAW editor it seemed weird to go back to the standard ROM font whe...

Hi @Blerkotron, here's an update to the fix. This should work under all circumstances (tested by myself with ESXDOS 0.8.6). 1. Download Velesoft's .Z80 snapshot pack from the above link and copy them to your CF/SD card. 2. Press the NMI button on your interface, then select the UNHALLOWED.TAP file ...

I just posted a quick update (1.01) which fixes a few typos and adds some new messages based on difficulties I saw people having with a few of the puzzles. There is also an updated HTML version which uses some of the more advanced features of Adventuron! More details here: https://blerkotron.itch.io...

Thank you, Alessandro - would you mind if I adapted your post into a section in the documentation? With credit given, of course.

I've seen another DivMMC user complaining of the same thing, but I'm not sure why this would be because I'm not familiar with the hardware. It sounds like it's loading in 48K mode for some reason (you can get the same effect in an emulator by selecting a 128K machine but going to 48K before loading)...

It's what I like to call my "Sigourney Weaver moment".

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Ripley does exactly this in the final stages of Alien. It makes no sense for her to risk her life to save the cat, but she does it anyway.

Thanks for the kind words, Alessandro - I'm glad you enjoyed it!

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 ...