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SFX, Adventures, and thingsies
Posted By: icabod, Monday, January 20, 2003 - 09:33 PM
I'm sitting here listening to flavours-of-the-month "Godspeed You Black Emperor!" and "Do Make Say Think", and I've been flipping through a few magazines. There are several 'zines I read regularly. Among the ones I can mention (hey, my Mum may be reading) are PC Gamer and SFX. The latter of these has just reached the age of 100 issues, and there's an article in which they pat themselves on the back most vigorously. Anyway in this article it transpires that a couple of the founders of the 'zine were in fact ex-YS people: Dave Golder (who apparently wrote the Killer Column, tho' I can't guarantee it as all my old YSs are at my old home), and ex-Ed Matt Bielby. It's quite interesting. For a couple minutes.
Also something that may interest is an article in last months 'Gamer, all about "Interactive Fiction". That's classic text adventures to you and me. The article was quite interesting, and got me thinking... these days IF's are written in some kinda script. Would it be so tricky to make a player for the ZX? Even if it only played the more simple games it'd be quite a boost to the ZX games "industry". Well, it's something to stick in your head and jiggle about. Check out a couple of these links for information... there's even the source for a Windows interpreter on one of them: [1][2][3][4][5].
Actually while I'm here, I just checked the YSRNRY Joystick Jugglers page... ooh, doesn't Tim Kemp look like Yerzmyey!!!
Also something that may interest is an article in last months 'Gamer, all about "Interactive Fiction". That's classic text adventures to you and me. The article was quite interesting, and got me thinking... these days IF's are written in some kinda script. Would it be so tricky to make a player for the ZX? Even if it only played the more simple games it'd be quite a boost to the ZX games "industry". Well, it's something to stick in your head and jiggle about. Check out a couple of these links for information... there's even the source for a Windows interpreter on one of them: [1][2][3][4][5].
Actually while I'm here, I just checked the YSRNRY Joystick Jugglers page... ooh, doesn't Tim Kemp look like Yerzmyey!!!
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