[projectaon] [Fwd: Re: [WOS] Reproduction of certain data]
- From: Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Project Aon <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 19:10:01 +0000
Hi all
The friendly and helpful chap at World of Spectrum has got back to me (very
quickly, I might add!).
Looks like I know what I'm going to be doing for the next few weeks . . . ;-)
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Simon Osborne
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Subject: Re: [WOS] Reproduction of certain data
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 19:58:20 +0100 (CET)
From: Martijn van der Heide <mheide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: MIA Mailing-List <mia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Simon,
The main reason I am contacting you is with regard to certain articles
and games you are currently hosting on your site. I am writing on behalf
of an online group known as Project Aon ( www.projectaon.org ). We have
been allowed to make certain works available online for free download by
the author Joe Dever, and the artists involved. Joe Dever is best known
for his series of Lone Wolf role-playing gamebooks in the 1980s and 90s.
It's very nice to read that the books are allowed to be freely distributed
from your website.
We are attempting to be as exhaustive as possible in making his works
available from our site. You are currently hosting the three Lone Wolf
computer games on your website (1: Flight from the Dark; 2: Fire on the
Water; 3: The Mirror of Death). We were wondering whether you would be
amenable to us making these same files available from our website. We
would certainly give credit and a link to your website as the original
source of the files, and as a brilliant resource for all things
Spectrum-related. (The publishers of the three games are Five Ways
Software and Audiogenic, both of whom are listed as
unresponsive/disinterested on your website.)
The answer is certainly yes, please feel free to use these files on your
website.
Regarding the publishers, Macmillan (label owner of Five Ways Software)
hasn't been found yet (I believe they dissolved, but I haven't found any
records about that yet), while Audiogenic knows about us but doesn't want
to make any public statements regarding their copyrights; I don't think
they really mind, since they left the software trade a number of year ago.
Secondly, your extensive archive of computer magazines has turned up a
wealth of articles (previews/reviews/hacks/cheats/solutions) relating to
these Lone Wolf computer games: we were wondering whether it would be
acceptable for us to download the relevant pages and make those articles
available in PDF format from our website. Once again, we would obviously
credit this site as the source of this information.
Of course you can use these pages as well. We don't hold any rights over
them anyway...
Finally, something of a poser: in a fanzine-type newsletter sent out to
fans c. 1985, Joe Dever advertised a computer game called "The Ice Halls
of Terror", which would have been the direct sequel to Fire on the
Water.
I have searched both this site and the entire web via Google, but there
appears to be no mention of it made anywhere. Would you or any experts
on Spectrum games happen to know if this game was ever actually
released?
If you issue query
"Ice Halls of Terror"
including the quotes on Google, you get (only) this hit:
<http://www.c64hq.com/interviews/hare_softography.html>
which is the softography for a Jon Hare, who says he was involved in a lot
of games, including Spectrum titles, one of which is "Lonewolf and the Ice
Halls of Terror".
I'm afraid this doesn't ring any bell whatsoever, though. I've never heard
of the good man, let alone have him in the database for any of the games
he reports... perhaps it was released on a different platform instead?
Kind regards,
Martijn.
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Martijn van der Heide
Owner of the official world archive for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum
The World of Spectrum, http://www.worldofspectrum.org/
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