Ghostship Delgado (Acorn Electron / BBC Micro)

Devlog

• Ghostship Delgado - grammar/typo update (v1.3)
  July 14, 2024 by Tony Kingsmill

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  #acorn electron, #bbc micro, #8-bit, #retro, #interactive fiction, #text adventure

  Ghostship Delgado grammar and typo update is released today correcting around 15 minor typo and grammar issues across both parts of the game. Both BBC Micro and Acorn Electron versions have been updat... Continue reading
• Minor updates and v1.2 release
  June 17, 2024 by Tony Kingsmill

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  #acorn electron, #bbc micro, #retro, #8-bit, #interactive fiction, #text adventure

  The download section is updated with Ghostship Delgado v1.2 featuring some very minor changes. > Typo in the kitchen galley (part one) corrected* > Electron version 'How to play' page mentions part th... Continue reading
• Ghostship Delgado Acorn Electron version available!
  June 09, 2024 by Tony Kingsmill

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  #acorn electron, #bbc micro, #8-bit, #bbc basic, #the quill, #gilsoft, #retro, #text adventure, #interactive fiction

  I'm pleased to announce the Acorn Electron version of Ghostship Delgado is now available to download. Although the same game as the BBC Micro version, due to memory constraints I was unable to fit all... Continue reading
• v1.1 - Minor revision to Part Two
  June 08, 2024 by Tony Kingsmill

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  #acorn electron, #bbc micro, #8-bit, #interactive fiction, #text adventure, #retro

  After some useful feedback from Morgan Willcock on the intfiction.org forum I've made a small change to Part Two, updating the game to version 1.1. I've also made some minor changes to the documentati... Continue reading
• Ghostship Delgado is released!
  June 04, 2024 by Tony Kingsmill

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  #acorn electron, #bbc micro, #8-bit, #retro, #text adventure, #bbc basic, #interactive fiction

  I'm delighted to announce Ghostship Delgado is now released and available for download for the BBC Micro (and emulators). The full game and instruction files are available for free, and for a small do... Continue reading

  
• Release information
  June 02, 2024 by Tony Kingsmill

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  #acorn electron, #text adventure, #bbc micro, #interactive fiction, #retro

  A brief bit of information about the release... Ghostship Delgado will be available to download for free (voluntary donation) which includes the BBC and Electron versions of the game, a detailed instr... Continue reading
• Full release is imminent!
  June 02, 2024 by Tony Kingsmill

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  #acorn electron, #bbc micro, #interactive fiction, #retro, #text adventure

  I'm in the final throws of testing and getting things together for the full release, watch this space over the coming days!... Continue reading
• Beta phase progressing...
  May 28, 2024 by Tony Kingsmill

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  #interactive fiction, #text adventure, #retro, #bbc micro, #acorn electron

  The beta phase is going well with lots of feedback and amendments happening. Most things are minor grammar, typo and spelling issues, but important all the same. There's been a one or two logic change... Continue reading
• Ghostship Delgado going into beta 2 stage
  May 19, 2024 by Tony Kingsmill

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  #bbc micro, #acorn electron, #text adventure, #if, #fiction, #interactive

  After a whole weekend of updates the game is going into beta 2 stage, with tons of updates and new in game descriptions... Continue reading
• Ghostship Delgado now in beta testing phase!
  May 14, 2024 by Tony Kingsmill

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  #acorn electron, #bbc micro, #retro, #8-bit, #if, #adventure, #fiction, #interactive, #text

  Ghostship Delgado is now into beta testing phase. It's a closed beta - the game will be avaiable on itch.io on release. There's a few last minute changes needed, the BASIC intro file needed to be chan... Continue reading
• Memory issues, pre-release version imminent
  May 13, 2024 by Tony Kingsmill

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  #text adventure, #if, #fiction, #retro, #8-bit, #acorn electron, #bbc micro, #bbc

  I've run into a slight problem with The Quill in that I've run out of space in part two of the game for the Acorn Electron. The Quill allocates additional memory to the BBC Micro and I've run almost 1... Continue reading

  
• Ghostship progress update
  May 01, 2024 by Tony Kingsmill

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  #adventure, #if, #text, #interactive fiction

  Ghostship Delgado is progressing well. The locations, movements, events and status records to move through both parts of the game from start to finish are completed. The next stage is to enrich the ga... Continue reading
• Ghostship part 2 progressing...
  February 13, 2024 by Tony Kingsmill#adventure, #text, #if, #bbc micro, #acorn electron

  Ghostship Delgado is progressing slowly but steadily, currently working on the event list in The Quill (Gilsoft). Part one needs to be completed before part two can be played (the first location is pa... Continue reading
• Game Progress...
  December 16, 2023 by Tony Kingsmill#text, #adventure, #interactive, #fiction, #writing, #bbc micro, #acorn electron

  The BBC Micro / Electron version of Ghostship Delgado (I'm planning to convert to ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC in 2024) is split into two parts so I can comfortably fit everything into the Electron's m... Continue reading
• Ghostship Delgado using The Quill
  December 16, 2023 by Tony Kingsmill#Quill, #Gilsoft, #adventure, #text, #interactive, #fiction, #writing

  I'm writing Ghostship Delgado using Gilsoft's The Quill, a tool I used a lot back in the day to make games for the Amstrad and ZX Spectrum. There are better, more up to date tools around of course, bu... Continue reading