Many of you will know I am a complete retro computer geek. Specifically Commodore 64 and 16, but I collect other systems like ZX Sinclair Spectrum, Atari, Coleco, etc. Back in the day I used to program games and adventures and do all sorts of fun things with them. Easy tiger.
Anyway, back in the mid 80’s a company called Melbourne House released a text adventure called “Hampstead”. For the uninitiated a text adventure is a game where you type in a series of commands and you try and solve puzzles and pick up objects and find treasure, etc. It’s very much like reading a book. You create the locations in your imagination 
The aim of Hampstead was not just to reach Hampstead, but to attain it. Questions and answers posed on the advert below included:
Questions people ask about Hampstead:
Q: Is there life after Hampstead?
A: No, Only before and during…
Q: Why do dustbins have no lids in Hampstead?
A: In order that passers-by may see the week’s completed Guardian
crosswords stacked neatly within…
As I now live not far away from Hampstead I am determined to complete this classic game and therefore attain my own version of Hampstead and hopefully my own bicycle with a basket 
Check out Hampstead on World of Spectrum and get yourself an emulator to attain Hampstead with me
Download HERE the latest SIDtastic Anna Black Anorak from the home of C64 remixes SLAY Radio. Amongst much fun and jollity – links in the show included mention of GET LAMP : THE TEXT ADVENTURE DOCUMENTARY and C64Glen and his rather interestingly different C64 remixes.
Created by fellow SLAYRadio chappy Mr Boz who has a voice like a litter of kittens sporting silken mittens
Ages ago I made this odd Doctor Who locations in London odd thing with Joan Metabelis. There is a proper prize which still hasn’t been won – I think it may be too hard 
(I have the answers written down somewhere…) Watch till the end and email me if you know the answers. The prize is a homemade tardis and a special film made just for you!
Music courtesy C64Audio.com
An improvised and rather acrobatic short filmed on Margate beach in 2007
Music courtesy C64Audio.com / 2 mins 33 secs
