Profanity Adventures

[catventure]

Hi,

Some guy has gone to the trouble of making pages about what happened when you typed swear words into those old Spectrum 48k adventure games... ::)

http://www.monkeon.co.uk/swearadventure

It's interesting from a historical point of view to see the many screenshots from these ancient games. Ah! T'was games like these that really fuelled my interest in interactive adventuring... Lots of memories here :)

Best wishes,
catventure.

[Petr Schreiber]

Very interesting reactions ;D.
And pretty nice screens from the games.

I still have ZX-Spectrum with extra memory module at home! Only problem is to tune tape recorder volume to accept tapes ... prevent my eyes from bleeding when typing BASIC programs while watching it on 60Hz TV ... and fighting with keyboard mapping :).

But it is incredible machine, I have written few games for it. For example very simple text adventure with *amazing*, *explosive*, *eye-candy* ASCII graphics :).
In our country in 8bit times there was a big community dedicated to text adventures programming for a ZX. There were even some local underground "celebrities", like Frantisek Fuka (http://www.fuxoft.cz/english.htm) :)

To be honest, Spectrum was not my first computer, I bought it 5 years ago for a nice price, I could not resist.


Thanks,
Petr

[catventure]

Hi Psch,

Very Interesting and er.. strange :)

I have on my PC a ZX Spectrum emulator called "x128" which emulates the 48k and 128k Sinclair Spectrum and I use it for retrogaming and looking at old text adventures...

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/x128/

They have a library collection of literally hundreds of game snapshots you can download free to use in the emulator.

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/

Cheers,
catventure

[kryton9]

Guys, I think the spectrum you are talking about was called a timex sinclair here. I had one and loved it. I loved having the keys be shortcuts to all the basic commands.

Anyways, I am posting here as I have a question about these type of games. I never played text games, unless leisure suit larry counts as one. That had graphics in it however.

Anyways in playing through the graphical demo game in TAB, do you know when you achieved a level goal, or are there no levels? Do you ever know you beat the game or can you just wander around almost forever and never really know?

I can see how this can be really fun. And like I said when I go mobile the way I want, I think I will really think about playing these games of CatVentures.

[catventure]

Hi Kryton9,

I never heard of "timex sinclair" but sounds like same thing.

The graphic demo in TAB is not a "game" as such...
There is no quest, objective, puzzle, score or level to beat or reach.
It is a very small demo of just 4 or 5 interconnected rooms. It is made up simply to demonstrate the location graphics to show how they display for each "room" when you travel to it...
This sort of game is described as a "text adventure" with graphics - unlike stuff like "Leisure Suit Larry" which are more correctly described as "Graphic Adventure Games" (point 'n' click ones that usually have a GUI panel with mouse operated command options)
The graphic demo could of course be expanded to include some objects and characters and puzzles to make it more interesting.

I made a text adventure that does have a quest to solve + puzzles and a score of 100 to attain called "Piggeryjokery"
http://tab.thinbasic.com/piggeryjokery.zip (requires TAB Player to run it)
You can see how "PiggeryJokery" was coded by loading it into the TAB Editor and entering the password "12345" to view the various bits of game data.

Regards,
catventure.

[kryton9]

Thanks CatVenture. I was at your site and downloaded all your games already for future playing. That is great that you know how many points are in the game and sort of how you are doing. Thanks.

[ErosOlmi]

Ken,

catventure also developed an automatic script updater with integrated games download. You can use it executing "TAB_Updater.tbasic" script you will found in catventure TAB application.

It is a clever script that works checking current local TAB game version comparing to current web version. If different, download button will be activated.
It also check if there are TAB games to be downloaded from http://tab.thinbasic.com listing them in order to be downloaded.

A must to try and source code study.

Ciao
Eros