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Circus is a 1983 text adventure published by Digital Fantasia, part of the Mysterious Adventures series, that received ports to many other systems. In this game, your car runs out of gas, and you find yourself in the middle of nowhere. That's when you stumble upon a mysterious circus, and the secrets keep piling up...
This run was made on the 128K model since it boots the fastest. The inputs were based on a solution from CASA. After the game loads, pressing enter removes the pictures, which saves a lot of time. Words can be shortened to 4 letters when applicable.

nymx: Claiming for judging.
nymx: Replacing with revised version....saving 18 frames.
nymx: I've judged a majority of these Text Adventure games for the Spectrum, if not all. I see all the tricks being used, especially the newest one where the graphical images are being bypassed. Everything looks good.
Accepting to Standard.

despoa: Processing...

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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #9009: CloakTheLurker's ZXS Circus (Digital Fantasia) in 04:14.41
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Instead of getting the spanner and flashlight individually you can GET ALL, it generates extra text but it should still be faster.
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Induviel wrote:
Instead of getting the spanner and flashlight individually you can GET ALL, it generates extra text but it should still be faster.
Thanks for the tip. I revised my submission and managed to save 8 frames.
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [5915] ZXS Circus (Digital Fantasia) by CloakTheLurker in 04:14.41