The Hobbit for ZX Spectrum

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The Hobbit

Online version of The Hobbit for ZX Spectrum. The Hobbit is an illustrated text adventure based on the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien, written in 1982 by Veronika Megler and Philip Mitchell at the Australian studio Beam Software and published by Melbourne House. The player takes the role of Bilbo Baggins, travelling with Gandalf and Thorin across Middle-earth towards the Lonely Mountain, where the dragon Smaug guards a hoard of treasure. It ran on the Inglish parser, which understood whole sentences and orders addressed to other characters, and on the Animaction system, which kept the world moving even while the player was not typing. It appeared first on the ZX Spectrum, reached most home computers of the day by 1987 and became one of the best selling games of the eighties.

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Smaug title with the authors credited (v1.2)

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Hidden path with trolls' footprints

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Bag End, the round green door

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The trolls' clearing, dawn has turned them to stone

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The trolls' cave, where the short strong sword lies

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The great river

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A narrow place with a dreadful drop into a dim valley

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A big cavern with torches along the walls

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The goblins' dungeon, with sand on the floor

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The gate to Mirkwood

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The bewitched gloomy place in Mirkwood

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The running river beyond the waterfall

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A dark dungeon in the Elvenking's halls

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The cellar where the king keeps his barrels of wine

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Lake Town, a wooden town in the middle of Long Lake

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Released in

1982

Publisher

Melbourne House

Developer

Beam Software Pty., Ltd.

Platforms

ZX Spectrum (1982), BBC Micro, Oric-1, PC DOS, Apple II (1983), Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MSX (1985), Macintosh (1987)

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Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Online emulated version of The Hobbit was originally developed for the ZX Spectrum an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research. Referred to during development as the ZX81 Colour and ZX82, it was launched as the ZX Spectrum by Sinclair to highlight the machine's colour display, compared with the black and white display of its predecessor, the ZX81. The Spectrum was released as eight different models, ranging from the entry level with 16 KB RAM released in 1982 to the ZX Spectrum +3 with 128 KB RAM and built in floppy disk drive in 1987.
The Spectrum is based on a Zilog Z80 A CPU running at 3.5 MHz (or NEC D780C-1 clone). The original model has 16 KB (16×1024 bytes) of ROM and either 16 KB or 48 KB of RAM. Hardware design was by Richard Altwasser of Sinclair Research, and the outward appearance was designed by Sinclair's industrial designer Rick Dickinson.
Video output is through an RF modulator and was designed for use with contemporary television sets, for a simple colour graphic display. Text can be displayed using 32×24 characters from the ZX Spectrum character set or from a set provided within an application, from a palette of 15 shades: seven colours at two levels of brightness each, plus black. The image resolution is 256×192 with the same colour limitations.