Spectrum Computing

Looks more like Martin Sheen.

It's very well done but I cope poorly with sudden changes. Where can I find the option to switch it back?

You can't post private communications (such as emails) on a public site. Especially now, with privacy regulations adopted in most countries. ;) Yes, I would say that when I wrote responses to people who were requesting permission to include my games on WOS, many many years ago, I hadn't expected th...

Again, I understand your point. So how can we do better? If it were me, I would list them as downloads on the ZxZvm entry; rather than individual entries in the database. They aren't official releases of games, they're just timesaving disks, put together by a third-party, of files to use with ZxZvm...

The permission responses quite often included lots of useful information, such as some comments about the games and their development, and usually email addresses. It was a shame that the decision was taken elsewhere not to share the key information from them (such as date obtained, scope of permiss...

I also think this information looks weird... although it's accurate! I can't agree with the fact it's accurate. It is not. These homemade third-party "compilation" disks were not published in the year indicated. And they were not, in most cases, officially published by the organisations o...

Putting aside the dates issue for one moment, and the fact that the "original publishers" never published these ZxZvm versions, there are also major issues with some of the other publishers listed. For example... The Mysterious Adventures... https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/32382/ZX-S...

The fact is, if I search "text adventures" published in "1983" then I get Infidel by Infocom sitting in the middle of that list.

That *is* a nonsensical search result, without context.

Well, it Is virtual machine at all. When I load Chuckie Egg into emulator, I don't care when was the emulator built. The way it's presented in the database at the moment makes it appear that these are official releases by Infocom with those dates. It is confusing. (I know it's confusing, because an...

There are a lot of games in the database that run using Z-machine, the virtual machine created by Infocom, and later targeted by modern adventure writing systems such as Inform. They've been put onto disks that use the excellent ZxZvm to run them on the +3. For example... https://spectrumcomputing.c...

It's not totally moot, if you're looking at commercially distributing CP/M software for the Spectrum +3. For example, the Hibernated 1 Director's Cut was sold together with a license for Locomotive's CP/M, because it uses a CP/M-based Z-machine interpreter.

I do love CP/M. Technically I guess this doesn't really apply to the Locomotive implementation of CP/M, as used on the +3 and the Amstrad machines, which will still be their copyright and require licensing. But people could code a new version of the operating system for the Spectrum that could be mo...

I don't think there's an "issue 36". The wiki page explains the numbering system... http://wiki.caad.es/Fanzine_del_CAAD Basically, normal numbering from issue 1 to 35. Then the specials counted as issues, with the magazine re-starting the numbering at 42 (instead of 36). The "50th&qu...

Do you use x message in 128k for example? Yeah, I'm pretty sure you do as I haven't gone back and altered my DAAD source for the game I had running on +3 with DAAD/MALUVA in that way. (Apart from commenting out the Maluva extension bit at the start). +3 worked ok, but it's very slow on emulator as ...

Does that mean at the moment you can't complile for 128k? I did try but got an out of ram error. No, you can compile to the new 128K interpreter but there is at least one outstanding bug that has issues with indefinite articles etc. I've not used the picture support side of things myself. If you're...

Sadly, he can't be unaware of the real reason that his name and his legacy really lives on in the worldwide gaming community.

Yes, it is.
https://www.ifwiki.org/CAAD_fanzine

Yoric's Revenge https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/29441/ZX81/Yorics_Revenge I don't know this one but I would imagine it was published in one of the Michael & Simon Barnett Timex Sinclair books (bookware) which date from 1984 like the program. (The file on the site is extremely buggy. It wou...

The Ticket
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/7 ... The_Ticket

Is *not* a magazine type-in. It is the tutorial adventure included as part of the PAW 'Introduction' manual.

Deadly Mission https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/13180/ZX-Spectrum/The_Deadly_Mission In its Spectrum form isn't a magazine type-in. The Spectrum version is an unofficial Quill port. The original Amstrad CPC version by Steve W. Lucas was published as a type-in-game in Computer Gamer magazine, is...

Christmas at the Microfair https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/35841/ZX-Spectrum/Christmas_at_the_Microfair This was originally published as a BASIC type-in listing in the 9th ZX Micro Fair Official Show Guide, December 1983, pp. 8-12. (already mentioned in the remarks on that page, but without th...

Space Detective II https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/10929/ZX-Spectrum/Space_Detective_II_Home_Run was *not* published by Celerysoft, but was published by... Armageddon and Cream (no current entry in database) A short-lived label by Les Floyd https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/list?label_id=8410 wh...

It'd be cool to see those in a 128K version, once that interpreter is fixed.

Well, this is the example code from this thread... running and compile also works as an option... https://i.postimg.cc/rRkWRN66/compile-error.png I seem now to be having an issue with the other code. Probably too late to be looking at this! :) This might be one of those that you would be best runnin...

Okay. I'll play about with that example. I'll just clear your existing code from my editor. The code you sent me runs fine in Adventuron when I made the changes I suggested. (By compile, do you mean compile in DAAD? Or just run in Adventuron?) Edit: I'm guessing you mean in DAAD, as that example als...