Month: June 2024

Here we go then, the 1st day of 2023’s Advent of Code.  Day 1 looked deceptively simple, with part 1 completed in pretty quick time. The only real problem was the large amount of data caused memory overflow issues, so I split it into 4 separate parts for the data statements. I’ll list some code…

I like some direction and order in my life, or maybe I need it rather than like it, but either way Advent of Code is something that very much appeals to me as it gives us daily problems to solve and actually gets me coding and thinking. This year, actually my first year, I will be attempting…

This text adventure is from 1987 and was published by Falsoft Publishing, a publisher of magazines and books, primarily the Rainbow series, and it was in the third Rainbow Book of Adventures that this adventure first appeared. It was released for the TRS-80 Colour Computer and converted across to the C64 in the same year. Philip Newton is attributed…

Another hobby (yes, I know! I have many hobbies) of mine is genealogy, and I get the same detective fix finding context about game authors and a little bit about where they are from and what they have done in their lives. It hasn’t taken many text adventure game reviews for me to start seeing…

After a little break we’re back in the saddle, and heading off to Adventure Island. Adventure Island is a public domain game written by J.B.Cattley and playtested by none other than Ms Millard! This is the second time Dorothy Millard has popped up in this blog and I know it won’t be the last. As…