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markoceans wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 8:45 pm Hi, I can help, please DM me. Thanks.

Thank you Mark - actually a few email interactions from idesine and the person who bought them resolved it - actually a second perfect interaction and I am super happy.

Well this is hugely disappointing - I have edition 1 and 2 of the books and both were bought as gifts for me. The person who bought them did not receive any of the emails (sat with them and checked Spam on gmail etc). And the rather unhelpful response from idesine is attached. WhatsApp Image 2023-06...

You've put a lot of work into it and I'm enjoying tinkering with it! I thought I'd give you some feedback based on using your information to unpick both some of the a-code and some of your disassembled output. Appreciate this enormously. Reviewed your review and it is committed now. The specificati...

I don't have the ability to PM yet, but I have a few updates/corrections that I've made to a local copy of this. I think I've "shared" those with you via Github :roll: (Github seems similar to but subtly different from CVS I used years ago so I'm hoping I've done it right! :mrgreen: ) Tha...

Well I wasn't wrong - well and truly down a rabbit hole! I thought I'd look at your notes, poke around in the code, play some of the old games and be happy... I've now wandered off into tweaking BeebDis, spent an age trying to cross-reference your notes with the downloads I had, got massively confu...

A while ago I started disassembling Red Moon and Dungeon Adventure to see if I could reassemble them to partly run from ROM on the Electron. It would be good to make the Level 9 adventures run on all the Acorn machines. :) I think that should be achievable easily especially for the v1 / v2 games (l...

melchett wrote: ↑Sat Jan 28, 2023 10:47 pm Well I'm happy to be one of the 7 - although I've a horrible feeling I'm now heading down a rabbit hole

Made my day - thank you.

Just wanted to say this is great and I'm looking forward to getting some time to look through it all! I used to love the Level 9 games back in the day and remember spending quite a while tinkering with one of my own! ...school got in the way of it ever being more than a tinkering though! Thank you ...

Not a person but a big sprite fluidly animated - the UFO that you land in Bugeyes II / 2

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How dare you imply bbcmicro.co.uk isn’t important..!?!


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Haha I thought that as soon as I hit submit..

Absolutely fantastic work melchett. For text adventure fanatics like myself this puts you in the rarified company of the likes of Mark Moxon and the very mysterious Level 7. How long have we waited for someone with the capability and love of adventuring to do this? Of course, it also inspires me to...

Appears to be fixed - that's excellent news! I private browsing/incognito so navigating to these doesn't pollute my browser history (only the important history is left there.

Thank you Mark Moxon and Lurkio!

Good Lord! I’ve only just seen this, and I haven’t begun to digest any of it yet, but at first glance it looks absolutely monumental! Well done! Amazing work! =D> =D> =D> Of course, you know that the next step is for you to make an adventure creator utility that compiles a user-friendly adventure l...

Really wonderful. A small question arises: does the virtual machine code permits graphics? Apart from using the VDU drivers I mean, a virtual machine could enable a much tighter graphics code than the simple VDU. Great question - yes it does but I cannot see that in any of the version 1 games. At l...

Looks like it might be @Lurkio - early signs are good. I'll try tomorrow on my Macbook which is where I originally noticed the issue. The disk references in the URLs now look correct. Will report back (or tonight if I get a moment).

I am happy to change it in the original source code if there's a github repository somewhere Lurkio. Not my intention to create additional work for people, just trying to improve this to run in private browsing/incognito sessions.

I published today the Level 9 Version 1 Python Interpreter that I have been working on. It's been a fascinating journey reverse engineeing and understanding what the Austin brothers put together all those years ago. BBC Micro Assembly The engine itself is pretty simple when implemented in modern lan...

I thought you had already completed all 5 parts? 🤯 I am shocked 😲 No new episodes at the moment I'm afraid. I may do an entirely new adventure if I can think of a story as mind-blowingly superb as SIGMA 🤣 Lee P S. I may need another lockdown to complete it though 🤷‍♂️ Oh my memory is 3 parts but ok...

Glad to here the series continues @leenew

Will download and experience what it has to offer - good to see it's "Part 1" so a promise of more to come.

Do you have a thread on this elsewhere?

Well, I was finally able to make a little bit of progress! I managed to rknzvar ebbz for want of much else to do, and was then able to gnxr jver and cvpx ybpx -- obviously! But I was stuck for ages trying variations on a theme of bcra qbbe until I just tried j ! Perhaps that should have been obviou...

Well that was a fun albeit short distraction.

He obviously spent a fair bit of time on the graphics in GAC. Quite atmospheric.
So it can be completed.

Figured it out..! Thanks Fuzzel...

Good to hear - will give it more time, thanks Fuzzel. I'm actually happy to hear that as it's a great theme for an adventure game.

Thank you - I will give it a bit more time, just 5-10 mins so far, just wanted to be sure as it isn't obvious.

Anyone played this? Starting to wonder if it is a "joke" by the author - is it actually possible to get out of the first room?

Escape From Jail

Any reason why the site couldn't be updated to change to https:// for the game image? This peculiarity would just disappear.

OK so curiouser and curiouser... in Firefox Private Browsing mode, the request is blocked because of the CORS policy on the main page (so guess it's hitting mixed origin because of the http:// rather than https://). Firefox.png Wonder if this is a Firefox bug at a specific version/OS. Weird it accep...

OK... after some experimentation. It always fails in Incognito mode in Chrome / Firefox on MacOS. But in normal mode they all work. Seems that they are expecting https for the link to the SSD otherwise they throw that error. Is it possible to change the code that generates the disc link is via https...

I don't quite understand why those two need it when e.g. Electrobots Going Underground works with the same URL "issues": http://bbcmicro.co.uk//jsbeeb/play.php?autoboot&disc=http://bbcmicro.co.uk//gameimg/discs/4235/Disc999-electrobots-going-underground.ssd&noseek Oh well... at lea...

Similar for Eldorado Gold: Before: https://bbcmicro.co.uk//jsbeeb/play.php?autoboot&disc=http://bbcmicro.co.uk//gameimg/discs/745/Disc042-EldoradoGold.ssd&noseek After: https://bbcmicro.co.uk//jsbeeb/play.php?autoboot&disc=https://bbcmicro.co.uk/gameimg/discs/745/Disc042-EldoradoGold.ssd...