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  • ...on]], based in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK, publishing games primarily for the ZX [[Spectrum]]. ...dventure columnist & From Beyond fanzine editor [[Tim Kemp]], Jon Lemmon's Compass Software was basically a one-man show. His unique, well-presented games oft
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  • ...rection]]. It is one of the four cardinal directions, and one of the eight compass directions. Its opposite direction is [[south]]. ...which way is north, you can then easily determine which way all the other compass directions are as well.
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  • ...producing technically advanced text adventures, using utilities such as [[The Quill]] and [[PAWS]] but including additional coding elements such as speci His early [[ZX Spectrum]] adventures, [[The Witch Hunter]] and [[Project X: Micro Man]] were published by ''Pocket Mone
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  • ...a British text adventure author, magazine columnist, and fanzine editor in the 1980s & 1990s. ...g [[Project-X: The Micro Man]] and [[The O Zone]] with [[Jon Lemmon]] of [[Compass Software]].
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  • ....png|left]] A [[compass rose]] is a figure that displays the points of a [[compass]] in a circular arrangement. ...rose compass rose] can be quite detailed, showing 32 or more points of the compass, both magnetic and true north (and corresponding other directions), and lab
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  • :''This article is about game maps. For the IF Comp 2015 entry, see'' [[Map (by Ade)]]. ...connections between them, and may also also include annotations indicating the objects to be found in those rooms.
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  • The twenty-fifth [[Speed-IF]] was on May 27, 2001 and organized by [[Duncan Cro ...ication to a type of pasta or shoe, an unusual candle, and use of tertiary compass directions, such as northnorthwest.
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  • ...game, to get a higher [[score]] than necessary to win, or just to observe the game's more interesting aspects. ...utely required to reach a win, or in the case of multilinear games, one of the better endings.
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  • {{game infobox|title=Arrival, or Attack of the B-Movie Clichés|image=[[Image:Arrival small cover.png]]|author=[[Ste ...then, oh man, a spaceship lands in your backyard! From outer space! Forget the dishes—this is way too cool to ignore.
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  • ...rection]]. It is one of the four cardinal directions, and one of the eight compass directions. Its opposite direction is [[north]]. ...ted with the bottom edge of a [[map]]; most maps are meant to be read with the north-end up. If you are facing [[north]], then south is [[back]] behind yo
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  • The guy who did the Inform example wasn't wrong... short the "ground floor"
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  • ...north and the south are mine.<p style="text-align:right">&mdash; ''Song of the Open Road'', Walt Whitman</p></blockquote> * The four '''cardinal directions''': [[north]], [[south]], [[east]], and [[west]
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  • The '''SAM Coupé''', often styled more simply as ''SAM Coupe'' or ''the SAM'', was a relatively short-lived British microcomputer produced initiall ...r the better third-party emulation software which involved using a copy of the Spectrum ROM.
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  • ...vention#Second Adventure Probe Convention (1991)|Adventure Convention]] at the end of October, 1991. ...t Adventure:''' ''[[The Blood of Bogmole]]'' ([[Jon Lemmon]], publisher: [[Compass Software]]; Spectrum).
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  • ...rection]]. It is one of the four cardinal directions, and one of the eight compass directions. Its opposite direction is [[west]]. ...ated with the right edge of a [[map]]; most maps are meant to be read with the north-end up. If you are facing [[north]], then east is to your [[right]].
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  • ...company. It was run by [[Philip M. Reynolds]] of Oldham, Lancashire,UK. ''The Adventure Workshop'' started off producing conversions for Amstrad CPC & PC ...nsed from the Spectrum-focused behemoth [[Zenobi Software]]) published for the [[Amstrad CPC]] & PCW, [[Spectrum]], [[Commodore 64]] and [[MS-DOS]].
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  • ...gue) when most computers were limited to text-only monochrome displays and the programmer's choices of graphics was either ASCII art or no graphics at all ...ess often than it used to, since most IF [[authoring system]]s now support the display of pixel graphics.
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  • ...rection]]. It is one of the four diagonal directions, and one of the eight compass directions. Its opposite direction is [[northwest]]. ...the bottom right corner of a [[map]]; most maps are meant to be read with the north-end up. If you are facing [[north]], then southeast is in a diagonal
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  • ...rection]]. It is one of the four diagonal directions, and one of the eight compass directions. Its opposite direction is [[southwest]]. ...ith the top right corner of a [[map]]; most maps are meant to be read with the north-end up. If you are facing [[north]], then northeast is in a diagonal
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  • ...rection]]. It is one of the four cardinal directions, and one of the eight compass directions. Its opposite direction is [[east]]. ...iated with the left edge of a [[map]]; most maps are meant to be read with the north-end up. If you are facing [[north]], then west is to your [[left]].
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