Modern ZX-Retro Gaming | THE GUILD OF THIEVES - ZX Spectrum Next @MZX-RG | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 18 hours ago.
This is a conversion of the text adventure game The Guild of Thieves for Sinclair
ZX Spectrum Next. The Guild of Thieves was released by Magnetic Scrolls in 1987
and was their second game. As the other Magnetic Scrolls games, it provided
premium graphics (on some systems) in combination with an advanced parser.
A text-only version of the game was released for Spectrum +3. For the first time
you can now enjoy The Guild of Thieves and its beautiful graphics on your
Spectrum Next. If you need help finding your way around or want to read more
about the game, please visit Magnetic Scrolls Memorial.
The game is created using the Spectrum Next porting of the Magnetic Scrolls interpreter
Magnetic and the remastered version of the game by Strand Games containing bug fixes and playability improvements.
The graphics is from the original Commodore Amiga version of the game. The
Amiga version used the same graphics as the Atari ST version, which had 16-colour
images from a palette of 512 colours. These images have been converted to Spectrum
Next's layer 2 graphics format using the Next BMP tools.
The remastered game contains a few new location images taken from the enhanced
version in The Magnetic Scrolls Collection.
The game screen is divided into three sections. The status bar at the top shows
the current location to its left and the score and number of turns to its right.
The middle section shows the graphics for the current location and the bottom
section is the text area which accepts user input at its prompt. When there are
too many lines of text to display on the screen at once, the message "MORE"
will appear at the bottom left of the screen. Pressing any key will continue the
scrolling of the text. The last entered line of input can be edited by pressing
the EDIT key. The graphics can be scrolled up and down using the up and down
arrow keys to make more or less room for the text. If a PS/2 mouse is connected
to the Spectrum Next, it can also be used to scroll the graphics up and down by
dragging it with the mouse or using the mouse wheel.
The text colour can be changed by cycling downwards or upwards through a palette
of 32 colours by pressing TRUE VIDEO and INV VIDEO, respectively. The default
text colour is light grey.
The game mode can be toggled between remastered and classic mode by pressing
BREAK. By default, the game starts in remastered mode. In classic mode, the bug
fixes and playability improvements provided by the remastered version of the
game are ignored. The additional graphics is also skipped in classic mode.
ZX Spectrum Next version was made by Strand Games.
Download here: gitlab.com/strandgames/brahman/-/tree/master/zxnext_magnetic/games/guild
Huge playlist archive with ZX Spectrum Next software: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxOanVBhqd3sDNyPQ49hgs2jGSjqDIpWg
This is a conversion of the text adventure game The Guild of Thieves for Sinclair
ZX Spectrum Next. The Guild of Thieves was released by Magnetic Scrolls in 1987
and was their second game. As the other Magnetic Scrolls games, it provided
premium graphics (on some systems) in combination with an advanced parser.
A text-only version of the game was released for Spectrum +3. For the first time
you can now enjoy The Guild of Thieves and its beautiful graphics on your
Spectrum Next. If you need help finding your way around or want to read more
about the game, please visit Magnetic Scrolls Memorial.
The game is created using the Spectrum Next porting of the Magnetic Scrolls interpreter
Magnetic and the remastered version of the game by Strand Games containing bug fixes and playability improvements.
The graphics is from the original Commodore Amiga version of the game. The
Amiga version used the same graphics as the Atari ST version, which had 16-colour
images from a palette of 512 colours. These images have been converted to Spectrum
Next's layer 2 graphics format using the Next BMP tools.
The remastered game contains a few new location images taken from the enhanced
version in The Magnetic Scrolls Collection.
The game screen is divided into three sections. The status bar at the top shows
the current location to its left and the score and number of turns to its right.
The middle section shows the graphics for the current location and the bottom
section is the text area which accepts user input at its prompt. When there are
too many lines of text to display on the screen at once, the message "MORE"
will appear at the bottom left of the screen. Pressing any key will continue the
scrolling of the text. The last entered line of input can be edited by pressing
the EDIT key. The graphics can be scrolled up and down using the up and down
arrow keys to make more or less room for the text. If a PS/2 mouse is connected
to the Spectrum Next, it can also be used to scroll the graphics up and down by
dragging it with the mouse or using the mouse wheel.
The text colour can be changed by cycling downwards or upwards through a palette
of 32 colours by pressing TRUE VIDEO and INV VIDEO, respectively. The default
text colour is light grey.
The game mode can be toggled between remastered and classic mode by pressing
BREAK. By default, the game starts in remastered mode. In classic mode, the bug
fixes and playability improvements provided by the remastered version of the
game are ignored. The additional graphics is also skipped in classic mode.
ZX Spectrum Next version was made by Strand Games.
Download here: gitlab.com/strandgames/brahman/-/tree/master/zxnext_magnetic/games/guild
Huge playlist archive with ZX Spectrum Next software: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxOanVBhqd3sDNyPQ49hgs2jGSjqDIpWg
