This directory contains games for the ZX Spectrum. See directory emulators/spectrum for programs to run these games on a PC. The games are in either .sna (48k) or .z80 (48k or 128k) formats.
See http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ for information about the ZX Spectrum, its emulators, snapshots, and tools.
A collection of Scott Adams games:
Dunric's 8K Adventure for the ZX Spectrum, release 4.5.
Adam's Adventure, by Brian Howarth. (from caad.es archive, under review)
A collection of games released by Artic:
The Boggit, by CRL, Fergus McNeill. (from caad.es archive, under review)
Cloak of Darkness, Roger Firth's example adventure for comparing authoring systems, ported to several Spectrum adventure authoring systems (and BASIC), by Richard Bos.
The Colour of Magic, by CRL. (from caad.es archive, under review)
Danger! Adventurer at Work!, by Simon Avery.
Delron, by Richard Otter, written with The Quill.
A collection of games by Delta 4:
Fredy, the short sighted frogger, by Desconocido. (from caad.es archive, under review)
The Gerbil Riot of '67, by Simon Avery.
The Hobbit - Spectrum, by Melbourne House. (from caad.es archive, under review)
A collection of games by Level 9:
Loads of Midnight, by Keith Huges (Penna productions/CRL). (from caad.es archive, under review)
A collection of games released by Melbourne House:
Quest Adventure 1: Manor of Madness, by Colm A. McCarthy. The first of the Quest Adventure series (the TADS game The Light: Shelby's Addendum is #3). Originally released commercially in 1984 by Celtic Software Productions. Made public domain in 1996 by the author and Illusory Mental Images. (versions of Shelby's Addendum for different machines are in games/tads/shelby.zip, games/pc/shelbypc.zip, and in games/mac/shelby.sit)
The 11 Mysterious Adventures by Brian Howarth for ZX Spectrum, converted to Z80 snapshots by Werner Spahl. The titles:
Also included are the following AdventureSoft games:
(The original versions, converted to ScottFree format, can be found as scott-adams/games/scottfree/mysterious.tar.gz; C64 versions with line-drawing graphics are in scott-adams/games/c64/mystadv.zip)
A collection of Spectrum adventure games:
A collection of games by Phipps Associates and the RamJam Corporation:
Copyright notice from Scott Adams, dated 24nov97
An unofficial translation, by Anton Shepelev, of the demo of the cult Russian graphical text adventure "Star Heritage" (also known as "Star Inheritance") set in the Elite universe and released in 1995 for the ZX Pentagon (a Soviet Spectrum clone). The demo contains the full first part of the game.
Urban Upstart, by Richard Shepherd. (from caad.es archive, under review)
Velnor's Lair, by Derek Brewster. Game in English, with accompanying description in Spanish. (from caad.es archive, under review)
Wakemare, by Richard Otter, written with The Quill.
128K Spectrum games for which Zenobi Software hold the copyright. Zenobi make these games available for personal use only and may not be compiled on to a CD or other media for resale. The title are:
48K Spectrum games for which Zenobi Software hold the copyright. Zenobi make these games available for personal use only and may not be compiled on to a CD or other media for resale. The title are:
Best of the Indies, tape 1. A compilation of several adventures for which Zenobi Software hold the copyright. Zenobi make these games available for personal use only and may not be compiled on to a CD or other media for resale. The title are:
Best of the Indies, tape 2. A compilation of several adventures for which Zenobi Software hold the copyright. Zenobi make these games available for personal use only and may not be compiled on to a CD or other media for resale. The title are:
Zombi, by Ubi Soft. (from caad.es archive, under review)
A package of text adventures for the ZX Spectrum. The package contains the following games: