[projectaon] Re: Mirror of Death
- From: Iain Smith <iainsmith@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 05:55:22 -0800 (PST)
If Audiogenic themselves either no longer exist or prove to be a dead end,
maybe this will prove to be useful. I've pieced it together from a few
sources:
Lone Wolf - The Mirror of Death was released for the c64 back in 1991, while
Audiogenic was still active. The head honcho at Audiogenic was the owner,
Peter Calver.
From what I can tell, the Audiogenic's PO Box was still in use by them in 2001
(http://www.audiogenic.com/news.htm).
In 2002, Calver started a new venture along with SiÃn Lloyd; One Day MBA
(www.onedaymba.co.uk) whose site strangely states that he sold Audiogenic back
in 1996, yet used Audiogenic's old PO Box as its address.
More recently I found references on http://www.lostcousins.com which
attributes the inspiration for the site to it's Managing Director, one Peter
Calver (http://www.lostcousins.com/pages/info/about_us.mhtml) and lists SiÃn
Lloyd as non-executive director. The site appearts live, since it was last
updated a couple of weeks ago.
Perhaps it may be worth attempting to contact Peter via Lost Cousins to see if
he has any recollection of the Audiogenic titles? There is a mailing address
for the company listed on the site. It's another Stansted address, just like
the PO Box.
15A Cambridge Rd, Stansted, Essex. CM24 8BX
----- Original Message ----
From: Simon Osborne
To: Project Aon
Sent: Monday, March 6, 2006 10:38:16 PM
Subject: [projectaon] Mirror of Death
Hi all
I received an E-mail from someone who (loosely) works in the computer games
industry today, though he know nothing about The Ice Halls of Terror or a
16-bit
version of The Mirror of Death.
What's intriguing, though, is that he says "The impression I get from the
ads and docs and some bizarre German review of the Amiga version that I
just found is that it *was* released on all formats, so I'd go with
that. Have you tried contacting the Audiogenic peeps themselves?"
http://www.audiogenic.com/news.htm
The link he's referring to is this one, I think:
http://www.aep-emu.de/Reviews-req-showcontent-id-132.html
Can anyone read German at all? Would anyone like to try contacting the author
of
the review?
The main Lone Wolf Software document is coming along very nicely indeed, with
only six more pages left to work on--out of 53!! Of course, this does not take
into account any information we might be able to glean from from Jon Hare
and/or
David Whittaker about the games. I've even managed to locate a scan of a real
curio--a keyboard overlay for a ZX Spectrum 48K (the one with the rubber
keyboard) that came with the original tape games of Flight from the Dark and
Fire on the Water. Nice!
I hope to release version 1 of the file in a couple of days. Then I'll have to
work out where to store the games themselves. >_<
--
Simon Osborne
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