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Swashbuckler for the Apple II
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Program description:
Lichtkrant is a program to write words or even whole texts to make it automatically scroll.
The player can choose the size and speed of the text.
Description:
A compilation of programs, demos and very few games. Mostly educational.
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Le Mans is a racing game where the player has to race against time, getting to the finish line as fast as possible. If the player drives into any sides of the track the game is over, although the player can try again.
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Lap Record is a racing game where the player has to get to the finish line as fast as possible without driving out of the track.
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A clone of Scramble. Shoot or bomb the buildings (Q) and missiles (A).
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A first-person maze game. The player has to find their way out of a randomly-generated labyrinth.
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Krypton Ordeal is a double games pack that contains:
Krypton Ordeal: You have crashed on the Planet Krypton and to survive you need to reach a city while your oxygen decreases. Your starting position and the location of the cty is viewed from above on the whole screen. The residents though don't just let anyone enter the city, so as you move in multiple directions, you will be given puzzles. These take the form of guessing numbers between 1 - 100 and matching sequences. If you get a puzzle wrong or you run out of oxygen then it is game over. Before you start there are two skill levels to choose from, Difficult and Very Difficult.
Hole-in-One: A golf game with the course viewed from above with each course seen on the whole screen. To hit the ball you choose a compass direction like North or South West etc, and you choose how much power you want to use (1-100). There are 36 courses to play (you can choose how many) and each course has bunkers, trees, rough and water. If the ball is in the rough or bunker you have to hit the ball harder.
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A reaction game where the player has to press the corresponded number where the Kruemelmonster (Cookie Monster) appears above.
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Krazy Kong/Crazy Kong is a Donkey Kong variant. The player has to rescue the girl from Kong while trying not to fall off of platforms or get hit by a barrel. They also have to hurry as water will rise if they take too long.
ZX Spectrum
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Krakit is a solve-the-game game where players were given clues and had to solve them and then send that to I.P.S. to hopefully being the winner of £10,000.
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Kongs Revenge is a Donkey Kong rip-off. Like in the original arcade game the player has to save a maiden from a vicious ape. To reach the maiden at the top of the screen the player has to climb ladders and jump between platforms. A ladder is automatically climbed when the player walks into it and it is not possible to go back down (although some levels have lifts for going down). To avoid climbing a ladder the player has to jump past it and then the ladder is destroyed. The player has to watch out for barrels that are dropped by Kong as well as fireballs. Barrels can be jumped past while fire balls cannot be avoided. Ladders are destroyed when hit by a fireball which might make a level unfinishable. The player has five lives and is given a score when all are lost. After a game is over it's possible to restart from the current level without going back to the first.
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Kolenmijn: Verkorte Spelregels is a Dutch text adventure where the player goes into a coal mine.
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Knoop is a clone of Snake. The player has to try to get as many fruits (*) as possible before either time runs out they entrap themselves.
The game can be stopped anytime by pressing R.
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Knikkers is a Dutch Nim-like game. The player plays against the computer. Whoever picks up the last knikker(s) loses.
Amstrad CPC
Commodore 16, Plus/4
Commodore 64
Commodore PET/CBM
Dragon 32/64
MSX
ZX Spectrum
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Knights & Demons is a variant of the puzzle game Lights Out. It's played on a board full of tiles that can be either knights or demons. By clicking on a tile, all adjacent tiles change from demon to knight or vice versa. The objective of the game is to change all the tiles so that they are all of the same type. In addition to this the player can use a limited number of pikes which allow him to change only one tile at a time. Each game has to be completed within a time limit but there are no penalties for making too many moves. Above the board is a slide with a snake head pointer. After completing a board the pointer will move either left or right depending on which tiles cover the board. By reaching one of the ends, the player will finish the game as either good or evil. Before starting a game the player can choose between easy, medium and hard difficulties.
ZX Spectrum
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You are a Knight from Camelot and you are on a quest to search and find Merlin's lost treasure. In this three part text adventure you must move about the surrounding areas to fight monsters, rescue a Princess and encourage others to follow you. Each screen has text which describes each location you are in and you type in commands with the keyboard to interact with your surroundings.
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You are the ruler of a Kingdom and in this strategy game you must keep your land prosperous and and your subjects content. Each turn is played over one year and the player has to make decisions to make money, keep your population busy and to attract more people to live in your Kingdom. You must build cities, factories and ships as well as farm and mine the land by employing your subjects in the various areas. After a year is up then you are given a report on your progress and whether you are still the ruler for the next year.
For all of you chemistry lovers out there!
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Keys to Gondrun is a text adventure where you journey beneath the Enchanted Forest and attempt to find the missing keys of Gondrun the Wizard. The screen has text describing your surroundings but instead of entering commands you are given choices in each location. As you explore you may be attacked by various creatures and these are fought in real time so you have to be quick in your actions or be killed if your strength rating reaches zero. Before the game you can choose your skill level (1-6) from Beginner to Plain Reckless.
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A German bowling game. The player has only 5 bowling balls and has to try to reach a high score.
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Kasino Kraps is a gambling game about craps (the game with the dice).
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Kamel is a text adventure and survival game in German.
The player is in the middle of the Gobi desert and still has 200 km to their destination.
The survival aspect lies in drinking water out of a bottle but the player can only drink 6 times, unless they press 6 for help - then they get an addition of 3 glasses of water. But not only that there are also pygmies who want to eat the player and if the player treats their camel too harshly by making it run too often then the camel will die.
(Who would've guessed?)
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Junior Maths 2 is a collection of math games.
Here are the games:
Areas: Calculate the areas of the geometrical figures.
Perimeters: Calculate the perimeter of a figure.
Simple Equations: Calculate what Y is.
Percent: Calculate the percent.
Set: Find out the correct set out of 4 possible answers.
Venn Diagrams: Find out how many play hockey. 4 possible answers are given.
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An educational compilation of math games for teenagers.
It contains the following games:
Long Multiplication
Long Division
Highest Common Factor (HCF)
Lowest Common Multiple (LCM)
Fractions 1 (+ & -)
Fractions 2 (x & /)
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Junior Education 5 is a collection of 5 educational games and one program:
Maths: Addition, subtraction, multiplication or division. 3 levels of difficulty.
Balance: Calculate how many kilograms are needed to balance the see-saw (kilograms multiplied with the left-hand side of the see-saw divided with the right-hand side of it).
Volumes: Calculate the volume of the square.
Averages: This is a program. The computer will calculate the average between points, min value and max value.
Bases: Write in a base number between 1 and 9, then the computer will give you a decimal and you have to convert it to a base.
Temp: What is the average temperature?
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Junior Education 2 is a collection of 7 games, with 6 of them being math games.
Car Crash: The player has to solve the addition problems. With every question the game gets faster.
Multiply: Multiplication questions.
Train: Here the player competes with the AI and has to solve multiplication question in 4 seconds each.
Fractions: The player has to solve fractions. Can be addition, subtraction, multiplication or division.
Addition/Subtraction: This one randomly picks either addition or subtraction questions.
Division: Division questions with some having the player to write the remainder.
Spelling Bee: A word will flash up for very few seconds. The player then has to spell it correctly.
BBC Micro
Dragon 32/64
ZX Spectrum
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Jungle Maths is an educational game for multiple systems.
The player must travel through a jungle to reach their home base and safety. To do this, they must correctly answer 10 math questions. A map tracks the player's progress. If the player answers incorrectly, they could fall in a pit, get killed by a snake, or have other animated maladies befall them. Five incorrect answers, and it's game over. Options include numbers from 10 to 1000, subtraction or addition, negative numbers, and time to answer the questions.
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Jump is a jumping game where the player has to jump from the bottom tiles (which work as trampolines) to the top, getting all of the stars.
The player has to avoid the dots from beneath or the side while touching them while falling from the top onto their tops is fine.
A bottom tile will be removed once used but will reappear once all stars have been collected.
Came also out for:
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Jet Scout is an action game based on Jetpac (aka. Jet Pac).
Like in Jetpac the player has to build their spaceship with the spaceship parts that fall down, later on they also have to fuel the spaceship by using fuel that falls down (the player doesn't have to be in contact with the spaceship, they can also just fly over the spaceship and the parts/fuel will automatically fall down and onto the spaceship).
There are various enemies that will kill the player upon contact but luckily the player has a very fast laser rifle to get rid of them.
The player can also collect money for extra points.
For every 2000 points the player gets an additional life.:
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Jet Scout is an action game based on Jetpac (aka. Jet Pac).
Like in Jetpac the player has to build their spaceship with the spaceship parts that fall down, later on they also have to fuel the spaceship by using fuel that falls down (the player doesn't have to be in contact with the spaceship, they can also just fly over the spaceship and the parts/fuel will automatically fall down and onto the spaceship).
There are various enemies that will kill the player upon contact but luckily the player has a very fast laser rifle to get rid of them.
The player can also collect money for extra points.
For every 2000 points the player gets an additional life.
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(From the website)
"JAMGame is just another memory videogame, inspired by the well-known Simon electronic game, for the Sinclair ZX81 homecomputer. JAMGame is my 3rd entry to the 11th edition (2022) of the BASIC 10 Liner Contest. Although some memory games had already been submitted to the past editions of the contest, there was no 10-statements version I was aware of, so I coded it ;-)
JAMGame is a single-player memory game. A round in the game consists of the computer showing a sequence of pseudorandom numbers in the range between 1 and 4, after which the player must reproduce that order by pressing the corresponding keys, followed by Enter. As the game progresses, the number of buttons to be pressed increases. The initial length of the sequence is 3. If the player types the wrong sequence, the game is over and the program must be RUN again for another play. Two alternating graphics characters help distinguishing the single digits of the sequence to reproduce. When the sequence presented by the computer is over, the ░ character is displayed near the last digit."
Link:
retrobits.itch.io/jamgame
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Game description:
J.D. Arcades is a collection of three games that contains:
UXB: You have to move around a maze to catch four tumblers, which are numbered and must be collected in the correct order. Once you have collected them all then you must get to the detonator before a fuse reaches it. If you collect the wrong tumbler or hit the fuse then it is game over.
Strategic Invaders (aka. Fight for Survival): A Space Invaders clone where you control a base moving left or right, blasting aliens who are above in formation, moving across the screen, slowly descending downwards dropping bombs. Between your base and the aliens are shields which lose parts every time you hit one or the aliens do. One unique feature is that each position on the screen your base is on, only has nine shots. It is game over if you get hit by an aliens bomb or you allow them to land.
Laser Patrol: A side view shooter where you must move a spacecraft up or down to either avoid or blast asteroids that move across the screen from right to left. if you hit an asteroid then it is game over.
TS 1000
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Island Kingdom is a management simulation game.
You are set on a small island kingdom as a ruler of a hungry group of peasants. You must contend with untrustworthy neighbors, crop failures, industrialization, education, pollution, and an occasional tidal wave.
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Escape the maze but beware of the dragon ($). If the dragon gets agitated it might destroy a wall.
Technically ZX Spectrum but there are differences, see below.
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INVINCIBLE ISLAND is the primitive ancestral home of the mysterious Xaro tribe. Untouched by civilisation, legend tells that these island savages guard the unimaginable treasures of their first great leader, Xaro himself.
Fortunately, you have more than just legend to guide you. Whilst on Invincible Island, Dr. Chumley, the world famous explorer, sent out a last desperate message in a bottle. Amongst his pleas for help and rescue was a vital clue: "First find the Seven Parchments of Xaro". He was never heard of again - perhaps the natives were hungry!
Armed with this information, your quest is to find the seven parchments, which, if Dr. Chumley was right, should lead you to the treasure. But remember: treasure is no use to you unless you can escape with it - alive!
This is a port of the 1983 text adventure "Invincible Island" by Peter Cook for the ZX Spectrum.
Differences (taken from the text file):
Built with MATE - Mancave Adventure Text Engine
I've tried to pack in as much as I can of the original game, although due to memory limitations I've had to reduce some of the content and make some changes as listed below. Despite this, all the locations with their original descriptions are present, as are all but two items. Overall I would say 95% of the original game is present and it retains the same feel as the original.
* Two word parser (slightly simpler commands)
* No graphics (obviously, but on the plus side you dont have to wait 20 seconds every time you move location!)
* No partial text for the parchment - you either can decipher it or you cannot
* No stones or canary items
* You can't eat the food (since you need it to complete the game and its not obvious what to do with it)
* Dingy is not in a package
* Sign can never be translated despite having phrasebook
* No oxygen limit in caves
* Instead of having to 'light torch' to see exits in the cave, you now cannot enter the cave without the torch in your inventory and you cannot drop the torch in the cave
* Frail bridge has no weight limit
* Jewelled altar in temple does nothing
* Sword does nothing
* Killing natives gives same response; They kill you!
* No swarms of natives...
* ...and therefore the skull only serves one purpose...
* No 'cross bridge' or 'enter' (building) commands etc, they are now compass directions (and up/down)
* Some minor text reduction/changes
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Inventions 1 is an educational quiz game for 1-4 players about inventions and inventors from either before 1850 or after 1850.
ZX Spectrum
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Invasion Force is a fixed screen shoot 'em up where the player, as so often before, has to defend the earth from an army of hostile aliens. The player moves his laser base along the bottom of the screen. At the top there's a large enemy ship that is protected by a moving force field. In addition to this there are smaller ships that drops bombs towards the player. The objective of each level is simply to destroy the large ship, but to be able to reach and damage it the player first has to shoot holes in the force field. Hitting the force field causes the missiles to ricochet back towards the player. The force field also has black parts that should be avoided, since hitting them will fully repair the enemy ship. To take down the enemy ship the player has to hit the control area located in the centre of the ship. The game is over when the player has lost all of his three ships or when the time runs out.
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Invasion is a Space Invaders clone.
The player can shoot rapidly but has only one life.
1 point for every alien killed.
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A Space Invaders clone.
As usual, the player has to shoot all aliens, while they will also shoot at the player. The player can use a deflector shield to deflect shots and protect themselves. However, the player can not move or shoot while using the shield and the shield is only there for a very few seconds.
The player can choose between the speeds of 1 to 100, with 100 being the fastest. The game gets faster with every level.
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An improved version of the A.G. Software one (youtube.com/watch?v=QTw3xeuTLUg), featuring 10 difficulty levels.
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A Space Invaders clone with 9 difficulty levels and only one life.
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Invaders is a Space Invaders clone: In the game the player controls a gun which can move left and right to hide behind bunkers, then shoot at the advancing ranks of aliens; watch for their mothership. The game includes ten difficulty levels and the player starts with three lives.
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Invaders is a Space Invaders clone. The game plays like any other version of the fixed-screen shooter with the player moving the laser base along the bottom of the screen while shooting at the aliens that move back and forth above. Four barriers offer some protection from the enemy fire and sometimes a saucer worth extra points moves across the screen. The game ends when the player has been destroyed three times or the aliens land on the base line.
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Intruder is a Space Invaders clone but a massive difference is that the player has only one life.
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A program and game about chemistry. Formulas, elements, etc.
There are quizzes to solve.