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	The Time Machine
	File:Timemachineds.jpg
General
Author(s)	papafuji
Type	Adventure
Version	1.0 beta
Licence	Mixed
Links
	[Media:Thetimemachine10betads.zip Download]
	Website

Revision as of 11:32, 22 July 2021

User guide

List of Classic Adventures

All games from the Classic Adventure series have the same interface (stories are displayed on the top screen and text inputs on the bottom sreen), and can be played exactly the same way.

Classic Graphic Adventures	Magnetic Scrolls Adventures	Classic Text Adventures
Ghost Town	Corruption	DoubleScott
Pyramid of Doom	Fish!	Mysterious Adventures
Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle	Jinxter
The Golden Baton	Myth
The Time Machine	The Guild of Thieves
Emerald Isle	The Pawn
The Saga of Erik The Viking	Wonderland
The Jewels of Darkness Trilogy
The Silicon Dreams Trilogy
The Time & Magik Trilogy

Gameplay

Trapped in a thick fog on the moors whilst searching for the house of Dr Potter, you begin to wonder just what sort of a story will unfold for your newspaper about the strange goings on that have been witnessed at this home...that's if you ever find it.

Walkthrough can be found here.

Input text

There are two ways to type words with the stylus of your Nintendo DS.
- By default, you can directly draw the letters on the screen, according to the PA-Grafiti alphabet.
- Second way is to use the mini keyboard or the numerical keyboard.

Icons

To avoid typing always the same things, the most used orders can be called via the icons.
Each icon has two or three states, for example:
- The hand means GET, DROP and GIVE.
- The N button means GO NORTH and GO UP.
Just pick an icon twice or more to select the good order.

Vocabulary

A sentence in these games is defined by a verb + a noun, such as OPEN DOOR, GO NORTH, etc.
Some sentences can have only one word, e.g. INVENTORY (to see what you're carrying) or SCORE (to see your score).
Each game has its own vocabulary, but a lot a verbs are common to all the games.
In many cases, you don't have to write the entire word, only the first letters are necessary. For example:
- G HELM is esquivalent to GET HELMET.
- CLIM DRAWB is equivalent to CLIMB DRAWBRIDGE.

List of the most common words
GO	ENTER	CLIMB	SWIM
HELP	LOOK	EXAMINE	GET
DROP	THROW	CAST	WEAR
REMOVE	OPEN	CLOSE	LOCK
UNLOCK	BREAK	CUT	CHOP
SAY	KILL
Shortcuts	Actions
N S E W	GO NORTH, GO SOUTH, GO EAST and GO WEST.
NE NW SE SW	NORTH-EAST, NORTH-WEST, etc (Level9 and Frotz games).
H	HELP.
I	INVENTORY.
X	EXAMINE (in classic games), EXITS (in Level 9 games).
G	GET (or AGAIN for Inform/Frotz games).
L	LOOK.
SV	SAVE.
LD	LOAD.
R	RESTORE.

Controls

X - Swap keyboard and grafiti input modes

Y/A - YES

B - NO

L/R - Change image size (Level 9 and Magnetic games only)

Start/Select - Save, Restore, Pause, Exit the game

Screenshots

Grafiti alphabet

Keyboard mode

Credits

Author - Brian Howarth

Editor - Digital Fantasia

1st release - 1983

Game engine - Scottfree

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 The Nintendo DS Classic Adventures series contains a range of text and graphic classic adventure games and interactive fictions ported to NDS created in the 80's for old computer like the TRS-80, ZX Spectrum, Acorn Electron, Commodore 64, Atari 8 bits or 16 bits machines like the Atari ST or the Amiga.
-The collection was ported to the NDS by papafuji and are divided into 3 categories (see [https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine#List_of_Classic_Adventures complete list]):
+The collection was ported to the NDS by papafuji, divided into 3 categories (see [https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine#List_of_Classic_Adventures complete list]):
 * Classic Graphic Adventures.
 * Magnetic Scrolls Adventures.
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 ===List of Classic Adventures===
 All games from the Classic Adventure series have the same interface (stories are displayed on the top screen and text inputs on the bottom sreen), and can be played exactly the same way.
 {| class="wikitable"
 |-
@@ Line 58: / Line 59: @@
 ===Input text===
 * There are two ways to type words with the stylus of your Nintendo DS.
-** By default, you can directly draw the letters on the screen, according to the PA-Grafiti alphabet.
+** By default, you can directly draw the letters on the screen, according to the [https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine#Screenshots PA-Grafiti alphabet].
 ** Second way is to use the mini keyboard or the numerical keyboard.
@@ Line 76: / Line 77: @@
 ** CLIM DRAWB is equivalent to CLIMB DRAWBRIDGE.
-'''List of the most common words:'''
+{| class="wikitable"
- GO - ENTER - CLIMB - SWIM - HELP
+! colspan="4"| List of the most common words
- LOOK - EXAMINE - GET - DROP
+|-
- THROW - CAST - WEAR - REMOVE
+| GO || ENTER || CLIMB || SWIM
- OPEN - CLOSE - LOCK - UNLOCK
+|-
- BREAK - CUT - CHOP - SAY - KILL
+| HELP || LOOK || EXAMINE || GET
+|-
-'''Shortcuts:'''
+| DROP || THROW || CAST || WEAR
- N S E W - Equivalent to GO NORTH, GO SOUTH, GO EAST and GO WEST.
+|-
- NE NW SE SW - In Level9 and Frotz games, this letters are equivalent to NORTH-EAST, NORTH-WEST, etc.
+| REMOVE || OPEN || CLOSE || LOCK
- H - HELP.
+|-
- I - INVENTORY.
+| UNLOCK || BREAK || CUT || CHOP
- X - EXAMINE (in classic games), EXITS (in Level 9 games).
+|-
- G - GET (or AGAIN for Inform/Frotz games).
+| SAY || KILL || ||
- L - LOOK.
+|-
- SV - SAVE.
+! colspan="1"| Shortcuts
- LD - LOAD.
+! colspan="3"| Actions
- R - RESTORE.
+|-
+| colspan="1"| N S E W
+| colspan="3"| GO NORTH, GO SOUTH, GO EAST and GO WEST.
+|-
+| colspan="1"| NE NW SE SW
+| colspan="3"| NORTH-EAST, NORTH-WEST, etc (Level9 and Frotz games).
+|-
+| colspan="1"| H
+| colspan="3"| HELP.
+|-
+| colspan="1"| I
+| colspan="3"| INVENTORY.
+|-
+| colspan="1"| X
+| colspan="3"| EXAMINE (in classic games), EXITS (in Level 9 games).
+|-
+| colspan="1"| G
+| colspan="3"| GET (or AGAIN for Inform/Frotz games).
+|-
+| colspan="1"| L
+| colspan="3"| LOOK.
+|-
+| colspan="1"| SV
+| colspan="3"| SAVE.
+|-
+| colspan="1"| LD
+| colspan="3"| LOAD.
+|-
+| colspan="1"| R
+| colspan="3"| RESTORE.
+|-
+|}
 ==Controls==
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 Start/Select - Save, Restore, Pause, Exit the game
+==Screenshots==
+'''Grafiti alphabet''' <br>
+https://dlhb.gamebrew.org/dshomebrew/classicadventureds01.jpg
+'''Keyboard mode''' <br>
+https://dlhb.gamebrew.org/dshomebrew/classicadventureds02.jpg
 ==Credits==
 Author - Brian Howarth