The Towering Inferno typein listing for BBC Micro

uniforix · Post by **uniforix** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 1:27 pm

Hi

Its been "doing my head in", but I remember there being an adventure game type-in in one of the 80s computer mags called "The Towering Inferno", it was in a magazine I didn't really buy so probably bought a one off, initially I was thinking The Micro User, then Your Computer, and then I found there was Games Computing which really sparked some memories when I had a look, but there's only a few copies of that online.

Does anyone on here recall it? I do remember the first page was left side of mag and it had artwork of the Towering Inferno on it, the Your Computer/Games Computing style seems to ring true but it could have been another mag.

Grateful for any ideas? It may be the game is rubbish when I find it, but its just nagging me, always wanted to type it in but I had Electron so never tried (may have run on it, who knows).

Here's a sample of Games Computing, but may not have been this, I had forgotten about this mag though:
https://archive.org/details/Games_Compu ... cations_GB

Regards

Anthony.

Slo · Post by **Slo** » Fri Sep 13, 2019 3:34 am

Hi Anthony, You are quite right, it was games computing december 1984

I had the same mag back in the day and typed it in to find alas the electron didn't have a hope of playing a mode 7 game
I wasn't clever enough to convert it to run back then so I gave up but here we are some 34 and 1/2 years later we can successfully run it with ease

Andy

leenew · Post by **leenew** » Fri Sep 13, 2019 7:26 am

I bet it t will still need loads of bugs sorting out... Steve Lucas wasn't known for his rigorous play testing

Lee

flaxcottage · Post by **flaxcottage** » Fri Sep 13, 2019 8:21 am

Most of the Games Computing magazines are on flaxcottage.com.

The December 1984 and February 1984 editions are for sale on eBay at the moment. Here https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Games-Comput ... 1431.l2649

and here https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Games-Comput ... SwQWBddQD1

Slo · Post by **Slo** » Fri Sep 13, 2019 9:13 am

Thanks to Lee above we already have the magazine (and whoever he got it from of course) and it will also be on flax cottage soon possibly, I will post the listing here when i've ocr'd it too.

leenew wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 13, 2019 7:26 am
I bet it t will still need loads of bugs sorting out... Steve Lucas wasn't known for his rigorous play testing
Lee

Nevermind we have a great bug spotter

leenew · Post by **leenew** » Fri Sep 13, 2019 11:04 am

^^ that is an actual photo of my eyes.
I am presently typing in 36 gamaes from a book

Lee.

Kazzie · Post by **Kazzie** » Fri Sep 13, 2019 11:05 am

leenew wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 13, 2019 11:04 am
I am presently typing in 36 gamaes from a book

And proof-reading them too!

leenew · Post by **leenew** » Fri Sep 13, 2019 12:40 pm

No wonder none of them work

Lee

Slo · Post by **Slo** » Fri Sep 13, 2019 2:14 pm

36 at once? I struggle with just one ocr and thats with nearly acurate conversions, why on earth would you do 36 at once! Lol

leenew · Post by **leenew** » Fri Sep 13, 2019 4:06 pm

Because I am insane

Lee.

Slo · Post by **Slo** » Sat Sep 14, 2019 9:34 pm

Ok here is the finished game, ocr'd/corrected by me and insanely bug tested/corrected by Lee.

You will need beebem v4.03 from http://www.mkw.me.uk/beebem/ to run this properly as it has the acorn speech system implemented and due to licensing issues its missing from the latest version.

Otherwise just delete all the sound statements from the listing and it will run fine on any version/real bbc without crashing

Andy

inferno.ssd: (15 KiB) Downloaded 9 times

Towering Inferno.txt: (31.84 KiB) Downloaded 12 times

How odd that a text file of the listing is twice the size of the disc image of the same thing?

leenew · Post by **leenew** » Sat Sep 14, 2019 11:52 pm

Just to clarify...
At this stage I have just got the listing to match the magazine listing**. I haven't play tested it or tried to complete the game.
I shall attempt this on Monday.....

Lee
** I did spot one bug in the printed listing, which I corrected...

leenew · Post by **leenew** » Mon Sep 16, 2019 7:37 pm

OK,
I have corrected a couple of bugs and made the game winnable.
Tidied the text up a bit too, and corrected a couple of incorrect connections

I also removed the SPEECH commands as it made BeebEm 4.14 lock up.
You are welcome to try the original version, or, put the SOUND-1 commands back in the corrected version.....

The ssd contains the file O.INFERNO which is the game as close as I can get to the printed listing minus the minimum bug fixing to stop it crashing.

Disc999-ToweringInferno.ssd: (200 KiB) Downloaded 5 times

Walkthrough:

Towering Inferno.txt: (31.84 KiB) Downloaded 10 times

and a link to the game on bbcmicro.co.uk http://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=3288

EDIT** OOPS - I did not upload the walkthrough! - here it is -

Towering Inferno Walkthrough.txt: (667 Bytes) Downloaded 7 times

Lee.

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