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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Calin Leafshade on Mon 19/10/2009 03:39:29

Title: Its 3:30am... and im playing BBC micro games..
Post by: Calin Leafshade on Mon 19/10/2009 03:39:29
They are the hardest games in the world. Gamers were tough in 1981.

Anyone remember Granny's Garden?
Title: Re: Its 3:30am... andI'm playing BBC micro games..
Post by: ThreeOhFour on Mon 19/10/2009 05:41:19
Quote from: Calin Leafshade on Mon 19/10/2009 03:39:29
Anyone remember Granny's Garden?

We used to have this on an old Acorn computer at school, with about 8 floppy disks to run it.

I remember it really being rather odd and never getting very far...
Title: Re: Its 3:30am... andI'm playing BBC micro games..
Post by: Intense Degree on Mon 19/10/2009 10:03:18
Quote from: Calin Leafshade on Mon 19/10/2009 03:39:29
Anyone remember Granny's Garden?

Certainly do, also from the old computers we had at school. I can still remember the theme tune now! ;D
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Post by: Ali on Mon 19/10/2009 11:56:34
Here's the perfect excuse to post this link to BBC4's Micro Men (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00n5b92/Micro_Men/). (I'm afraid it's probably UK only.)

If you missed it, it's a comedy drama about the rival creators of the ZX Spectrum and the BBC Micro. Now that's entertainment!
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Post by: Chicky on Mon 19/10/2009 18:12:50
Quote from: Intense Degree on Mon 19/10/2009 10:03:18
Quote from: Calin Leafshade on Mon 19/10/2009 03:39:29
Anyone remember Granny's Garden?

Certainly do, also from the old computers we had at school. I can still remember the theme tune now! ;D

Seconded! I have all these vague mental pictures of spending lots of time outside and flying on a carpet, but IIRC it was a text adventure so they must've had good writers.
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Post by: Calin Leafshade on Mon 19/10/2009 18:41:01
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Granny%27sGardenWitch.gif)

Grannys Garden is some scary shit.
Title: Re: Its 3:30am... andI'm playing BBC micro games..
Post by: Intense Degree on Tue 20/10/2009 10:39:43
@Calin

When someone mentions Granny's Garden that is the first image I think of! I can hardly remember the rest but I remember getting sent home loads, especially by the witch.

Check out a modern version of that funky theme tune here! (http://www.4mation.co.uk/cat/granny.html) 8)
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Post by: Calin Leafshade on Tue 20/10/2009 14:04:49
35 quid for granny's garden... thats just amazing.
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Post by: Intense Degree on Tue 20/10/2009 16:05:42
I know, I can't believe it is still going at all!
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Post by: Calin Leafshade on Tue 20/10/2009 16:17:35
we should release kids educational games. granny's garden is hardly the pinnacle of lyrical finesse.
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Post by: arj0n on Tue 20/10/2009 17:16:05
Well well, all you retro freaks out here. 8)

Since there are a lot peops that have played Granny's Garden some centuries ago,
I packed an Amstrad CPC Emulator Frontend with Built-In Emulator and included "Granny's Garden v3.2".
I also included a short "manual" called "Arj0n_HowTo.txt" so everyone should be able to run it.

Granny says click here! (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G48AGBQP) [1.77Mb]

(http://arj0n.webs.com/-%20Data/granngar.png)
Screenshot from Granny's Garden running on the emu ;)
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Post by: Calin Leafshade on Tue 20/10/2009 18:04:23
well thats just some new fangled high resolution thingy.

Viva La Original!
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Post by: arj0n on Tue 20/10/2009 18:11:09
Could be, but it's the only one around...
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Post by: Khris on Tue 20/10/2009 22:33:36
I found this site (http://www.thegamearchives.com/?val=0_2_1_0_0_4_2_0_0_0_0) while searching for the original game. (Hope posting this is OK, everything on there is like 20 years old.)
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Post by: paolo on Wed 21/10/2009 14:00:31
Quote from: Ben304 on Mon 19/10/2009 05:41:19
Quote from: Calin Leafshade on Mon 19/10/2009 03:39:29
Anyone remember Granny's Garden?
We used to have this on an old Acorn computer at school, with about 8 floppy disks to run it.

We were one of the first schools in the area to have BBC computers. Ben, you're making me feel old! ;D
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Post by: Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens on Thu 22/10/2009 17:30:43
My God.  That's not a witch, it's CTHULHU!
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Post by: kconan on Thu 22/10/2009 17:39:25
  Haha.  Yes, I'll take sound just don't slap me.