... but i missing out on them!

Recently, the wife and I have been watching the excellent BBC series Ripper Street, and i feel inspired to play a game of this ilk on my elk

Anybody know of any Victorian/Jack the Ripper/Sherlock Holmes games for the Electron? adventure, arcade or anything else?

Stuart

No? rightio then, i'd better get back into The Quill on my Elk and write one then

That's the spirit lad!

Mountain Panic is set a little later in the early 1930s, so you might be the first

I thought that Crown Jewels might be set in that period but it's possible that it's set in "modern" London.

hehe thanks Dave! I keep meaning to try that.. I've recently been playing Murder at the Abbey which is 1930s too.



one for the list to try out David!

Yep - that's set in "today's" London (well - the London of the eighties!). I did a walkthrough of that about ten years back - it's in the 'Game Help' section of the website if you get stuck (not that it's a particularly challenging adventure in the first place ...)

M.

Actually, Crown Jewels doesn't appear to be the adventure I was thinking of. The one I remembered was described in a walkthrough in Merlin's column in Electron User, I think. You had to drop a vase at some point. As with most adventures on the Electron, I didn't actually play it but still paid close attention to the adventure reviews and hints. It's interesting to try many of these now, after all these years, and see if they lived up to the mental picture I had of them.

I haven't forgotten my promises on this one... I've been beavering away on The Quill... One of the boys is doing a play through of what I've done so far.
wont be a best seller but it might provide StarDotters with a text-based bit of fun :

Gunfright is set in the wild west, and is sort of that time (i think! ). However, its as boring as watching paint dry!

Keep it up Stuart - my kids love a text adventure, the smaller and simpler the better!

aha! Not long my friend I'll post the .SSD image up here when all is done!

Which i haven't forgotten about! Going to have the chance to get back onto this soon

of course, the extra time involved doesn't necessarily equate to a more spectacular result

You mean it's still not finished?

I'm half-way through coding my first game:
There, just the final touches to add!

I'll finish it for you...

Oh, you rott... wanders off to look at the next shiny thing.

Mistake at line 40

Oh, well, Mark messes with Spectrums, too ...

Go to check to see if everyone is awake!

Mark

PS it was very rare that I used / use GOTO on the Beeb, as I normally used / use procedures

Okie dokie my friends.. The Curious Case of The Missing Victorian is complete! I've just quickly tried to image an .ssd onto my pc from the Electron floppy but i went wrong somewhere surprising for me?

family duties call so I'll have a proper go this evening and hopefully get it onto here for a bit of *. Beta test

ok, i'm not very good at sitting on things when they are buzzing around in my head, so i've switched back on and had another look at the imaged file.

for some reason, it still had the .log extension after the .ssd one after i imaged it so i have simply removed that to leave .ssd , it now opens ok in an emulator after imaging it from my actual Electron and physical disc. i havent done much traffic this way so be patient with me



if anybody fancies a go with, could you let me know if it opens/loads ok for you, just so i know i've done all this the right way!

enjoy

ps bugs and spelling/grammer errors-pointing out welcome!!

*edit* to save confusion, head over to the Retro Software page for the game to get the latest version

Hi Stuart - the only observation I would make is that I normally recommend forcing a full 200k image of originals (assuming single-sided) just in case there's any data hidden further on in the disc that doesn't have a catalogue entry. You're probably fine but I would suggest you use *UPXSSD 0 F to guarantee a full 200k duplicate of the disc surface.

Hi Martin, sorry about that okie dokie, i've re-done that bit and i will put that up for download instead of the other one.

I still had to rename the file to take off the extra .log extension from the .ssd - i followed the instructions in the UPURS guide though.. where am i slipping up?

Is the pc software you are using adding the .log extension automatically? There is probably a setting to change in order to stop it doing this.

When you go through the choose log file process, make sure the filter is set to *.* instead of *.log. That should stop .log from being appended.

Paul

@Sydney i wondered about that!


thanks Paul, I'm sorry, i should have realised that

This project has a nice new home here, with some pretty screenshots:

http://www.retrosoftware.co.uk/missingvictorian

Sam.

Thank you for the hospitality!

will have a go Stu!

now, years ago, there was a hack to stop the tape to disc version from jumping back to tape for load/save position. I will hunt it out later, as it's on a piece of paper *somewhere* and hopefully in my other PC

thanks Col! im just about to upload a version with a few error corrections

yes, i did enter that hack in this version; i think it might have been you that gave me the details of it earlier this year?

it was:



at least thats what i've scrawled down on my print-out of The Quill manual!

^yip, that looks very familiar Also, as this main part is loaded in at &E00 (or moved down to in a &1900 DFS) then it will need a &E00 DFS for it to work correctly, so that's your Elk ok, and a Master128/Compact.