Killed Until Dead - Murder At Midnight

[ComSoft6128]

Non-playable demo version of the 1987 graphic text adventure released by US Gold.
I was going to make a longplay of this game but this unexpected demo version (included with the game) has saved me the trouble.

Best viewed on a large screen at 720p (Dailymotion player setting)


https://dai.ly/x8m96ee

Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killed_Until_Dead

Reviews:
https://www.cpcgamereviews.com/k/2/#killed_until_dead
https://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest/killed_until_dead.htm


Not emulated - original hardware and software.
Please note that the aspect ratio for this video is 16:9 but the CPC monitor has
an aspect ratio of 4:3 so you may wish to adjust your viewing device accordingly.

[Gryzor]

Interesting, never heard of it before. Though, as they said back in the day, you'll be running for the volume knob pretty fast. 

[Jean-Marie]

Thank you !
I'm currently porting a game from Mode 1 to Mode 0, and I was searching for a small font of characters.
This game seems to use a font of 3 pixels wide only, and still remains perfectly legible.

[TotO]

I'm currently porting a game from Mode 1 to Mode 0, and I was searching for a small font of characters. This game seems to use a font of 3 pixels wide only, and still remains perfectly legible.

4 pixels with the space. It is very easy to draw one, if not already exist.

[eto]

This game seems to use a font of 3 pixels wide only, and still remains perfectly legible.

4x6 pixels seems to be the minimum that is readable (incl. 1 whitespace pixel on the side and bottom). Some characters like M or Q are quite hard to read but usually are fine when they appear in the context of a text. 

[Prodatron]

4x6 pixels seems to be the minimum that is readable

IMHO 4x6 is the minimum for creating a readable font with most of the standard ASCII chars:



 

 

Indeed it is possible to have even smaller fonts:

from r/PixelArt

https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/comments/ppcd19/smallest_legible_pixel_fonts/

3x3 (which is in fact 4x4) is already crazy. It's "nearly" ok, if you only need A-Z, 0-9 and some extra chars.