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Full title | Hidden Letters |
Year of release | 1983 |
Publisher | Poppy Programs (UK) |
Author(s) | Geoffrey R. Sampson, Vera Sampson |
Machine type | ZX Spectrum 48K |
Number of players | 1 |
Controls | Keyboard |
Type | Educational |
Message language | English |
Original publication | Commercial |
Original price | £4.50 |
Availability | Available as both Perfect TZX and non-TZX |
Protection scheme | None |
Remarks | Vera recalls: "Hidden Letters was our most important program. It either randomly, or according to an algorithm chosen by the teacher, blanked out certain words in a text, which players then had to guess. It had various levels of difficulty. The one thing which we wanted, but could never manage with the memory in a Spectrum, was to get it to accept viable synonyms for words. A revolutionary feature of Hidden Letters was an overlay which we manufactured for the Spectrum keyboard. I was concerned that young children learned lower case letters before capitals, and therefore were having difficulty with the Spectrum keyboard. The overlay was based on a piece of plastic, called a keyboard overlay, which could be bought, and which had cut outs for the keys, which fit over the keys and nicely stayed in place. I then had the lower-case keyboard silk screened on a piece of fairly flexible plastic, which I attached to the keyboard overlay with probably double-sided tape. This overlay then rode above the keys when the overlay was pushed down into place, and made life easier for little ones." |
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Filename | Size | Type | Origin | Code | Barcode | D.L. | ||
![]() | ![]() | HiddenLetters.tzx.zip | 6,922 | (Perfect TZX tape image) | Original release | |||
![]() | ![]() | HiddenLetters.tap.zip | 6,610 | ((non-TZX) TAP tape image) |
Filename | Size | Type | |
![]() | HiddenLetters.gif | 1,424 | (Loading screen) |
![]() | HiddenLetters.scr | 6,912 | (Loading screen dump) |
HiddenLetters.gif | 1,538 | (In-game screen) |
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