Jonathan Blake wrote:
For the curious, I downloaded the zip file with John Hare's games, but
no Ice Halls of Terror. :( It might be nice to locate and contact the
guy to find out the story behind this and add an entry in the Books
list.
Well . . . Arthur Yin contacted me off-list with a potential source for contacting Jon
Hare . . .
If you want to look into it, Jon, or anyone else, the E-mail can be found on
this page:
http://www.tower-studios.co.uk/about.htm
It would be nice if we could find a brief description of the game, any interesting game
mechanics/bits about it, and why it was shelved.
David Davis wrote:
Folks, I think I missed the start of this conversation - if you're talking to WOS, you
probably have all the facts at your
disposal - another affiliated site is the TZX Vault http://tzxvault.retrogames.com/
which maintains an archive of Spectrum software (including the Lone Wolf stuff), all with
copyright clearance.
Cheers, David! I'd definitely prefer to host the "perfect" TZX files rather than games in
the Z80 format.
UPDATE:
Thanks to Cerulean, I now have copies of the Amstrad CPC version. Formats still being
looked for are Atari/Amiga* and MSX (what the heck is the MSX platform, anyway?).
* Arthur is of the opinion that the Amiga version was never actually released, due to
there no mention of it in Amiga magazines of the time. Since the Atari used the same basic
CPU, it is likely that if it was not released on the one format, neither would it have
been released on the other. Even if it was unreleased, there's always the chance that the
original game might turn up--look at the Software Preservation Society and their successes
with finding a few unreleased games--but it's very, very doubtful.
FYI I'm packaging the SID file of David Whittaker's music for The Mirror of Death with
both the Spectrum and the C64 versions of the game.
Currently I'm aiming at compiling all data--covers, instructions,
previews/reviews/solutions/other related stuff into one main document, since that's easier
to maintain. Is this OK, Jon, or would it be better to create multiple files? Should we
add a TXT file to each of the ZIPped game archives containing the User License, maybe the
instructions, etc.? I'm asking ahead of time--I don't think this file will be ready for a
couple of weeks yet, so there's no major rush for a response, Jon. Best to concentrate on
Deathlord. ;-)
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Simon Osborne