Spectrum Computing

It's too difficult?
I was considering Cretans Deluxe with a difficulty level:

Pixel-perfect shot is difficult... as the review predicted, I only got as far as level 3. I barely got past the first level as the target blended in so well with the dust on my screen. Mr Don't - I think I need some tips. Dave! Is there any way to avoid the bad guys swarming around the last couple o...

17 - Beach Head

I opened one with a text editor. Seems to be pure ascii?

Ah, sorry!

The second one is a Quill adventure...

MtM wrote: ↑Wed Nov 11, 2020 9:49 am Who was the original author of TPoW?

According to this it was Steve Hearnden and I Lomas.
http://sleepingelephant.com/~sleeping/i ... =10&t=8039
I checked myself and at $2000 in memory it says "S HEARNDEN AND I LOMAS".

Amazing!
And the colour gradient is also beautiful!

I think this looks nice and chunky and is simple: 0 GO TO 100 10 PRINT AT 21,0; INK 7;a$;AT 7,0;: FOR y=7 TO 0 STEP -1: FOR x=0 TO 8*LEN a$-1: PRINT PAPER c*POINT (x,y);" ";: NEXT x: NEXT y: RETURN 100 CLS : POKE 23672,0: POKE 23673,0 110 LET a$="GAME": LET c=2: GO SUB 10: LET a$...

A couple of thoughts:
- sort by release date? so original titles would come first.
- sort by number of magazine reviews? kind of like google's weight by references.

I was able to reduce this to 36 sec with these changes: 9700 REM PLOT PRINT 9720 LET x1=x: FOR i=1 TO LEN s$: IF s$(i)=" " THEN GO TO 9840 9730 LET y1=192-17-y: LET dir=8*( CODE s$(i))+PEEK 23606+256*PEEK 23607+1 9740 FOR j=1 TO 7: LET byte=PEEK dir 9745 IF byte=0 THEN GO TO 9830 9750 LET ...

If you didn't play Two Days to the Race, that's great too with a similar vibe!

Why? It's terrible!

This is a really nice atmospheric adventure! Recommended!

Oh, those are '~' not '-'.

I'm so confused.

I really wanted to read this but I couldn't justify the purchase price.
And unfortunately it's MIT press, so it's unlikely to go down any time soon.
Oh well, I've got shelves full of unread books!

[EDIT] Thanks for the link to the website! Fascinating!

Thanks for the explanation. A true labour of love!

Great idea!
I'm curious to know how you made it happen

Excellent, good man!
I have some ideas floating around...

Don't forget to degauss your tv!

You're missing a bunch of 16k adventures from the crap games competitions!
For example three of the four adventures I wrote in 2013 fit in 16k.

If it's his real name it's a great name for an adventure game author!

It may be form affecting function, but I would break it into two menus, Programs and Tech.

Looks very interesting! "Materials" is a misleading term. Something like "Technologies" would work better, but it's not perfect either. Tricky... (There are some places where a key press is enough to navigate, and others where you have a cursor and have to type a number and then ...