Owner, publisher and creator of Zenobi Software - home of the 'text adventure' - now 'retired' and even greyer than a badger's ass.
Rochdale
Joined October 2011
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Very sorry to have to let u all know that my old man the rochdale balrog sadly passed away 31st may 2021. . . went peacefully in his sleep with my mum by his side. Apologies he never got a chance to say goodbye to everyone.
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Well over 800 games produced with The Quill (and the US version AdventureWriter, which came out for C64, Apple II, Atari 800/XL and IBM PC too). Glad you enjoyed your first adventure. The adventure columns were the best bits of the magazines! ;)
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Reasonably high chance I shall be streaming random #ZXSpectrum games tonight. Going live between 9 and 9:30 BST
Anyone know a 'Mr J S Needle'? Someone my late father did business with, any suggestions welcome thank you.
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Terry Taylor, author of Labours of Hercules, went on to be one of Zenobi's regular playtesters... his reports were always very comprehensive.
The Guest by Stephen Wadsworth is sadly one of the ZX Spectrum text adventures that isn't archived online.
Crash (Oct 1987) - Dargonscrypt, The Guest and The Labours of Hercules reviews #zxspectrum #retrogaming
READ: archive.org/stream/crash-mag…
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Hewson Consultants was founded in 1980. In 81 we were still producing books. This is Hints & Tips for the ZX81, sequel to the ZX80 version which started the whole story. We can't find images of the ZX80 original - haven't seen a copy in 40 years. Maybe somebody out there has one?
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The long wait is finally over. The official @ZXSpectrumNext distribution has been updated to the latest and greatest! This new 22.09 version includes a large number of improvements and fixes and you can download it from the usual address specnext.com/latestdistro
Start of the footy season and the old man's team won 1-0 (hibernian) I'd have loved to be having a chat about his other team tho(man utd) if I could have seen him, love and hugs dad x
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There is a new version and I've named it "1.4 - The Rochdale Balrog". You can download it here ngpaws.com/pcdaad/
Although I never met @RochBalrog in person, I could clearly see mainly a good man behind his tweets, so this is my little tribute.
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Been playing about with the new version of the excellent DAAD Ready today. It's always interesting comparing how exactly the same game feels different on the various platforms... especially ones that give text a lot of space to breathe...
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I have published DAAD Ready 0.6, a package made to help text adventure authors creating games for old computers using DAAD (by @timbucus and Aventuras AD) with bitmap graphics. This version adds support for Amiga, Atari ST and Spectrum 128K(with graphics)
ngpaws.com/daadready/index.h…
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In this new interview I talk to prolific 1990s text adventure author Jonathan Scott about his many ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC games... 8bitag.com/info/jon-scott.ht…
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Several text adventures in this...
The #ZXSpectrum Charity Bundle in support of the awesome @SpecialEffect is now LIVE!
Hurrah! \o/
Celebrate the Speccy's 40th Birthday with over $50 worth of games for just $10!
itch.io/b/1343/the-zx-spectr…
#ZXSpectrum40 #Charity #Screenshotsaturday #Gamedev #Indiedev #Retrogaming
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Got an 8bit game to donate?
The #ZXSpectrum 40th Birthday Mix Tape goes live in two weeks on itch.io in support of the fab @SpecialEffect \o/
If you'd like to donate a Speccy game, or know someone who might, please do get in touch :D
Thank you!
#gamedev #indiedev #charity #screenshotsaturday