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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #50128, posted by Phlamethrower at 13:36, 23/1/2004, in reply to message #50029 |
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Jason Tribbeck |
Message #50139, posted by tribbles at 15:36, 23/1/2004, in reply to message #50128 |
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Starship Command.
Bugger! |
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fwibbler |
Message #50170, posted by fwibbler at 20:44, 23/1/2004, in reply to message #50139 |
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Why would anyone want to rights to Wavelength?
Great game, but it works fine on RO4.37
Cheers!
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John Hoare |
Message #50172, posted by moss at 20:54, 23/1/2004, in reply to message #50170 |
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Why would anyone want to rights to Wavelength?
Great game, but it works fine on RO4.37
Cheers!
(OK, I don't come in here often) Who distributes it currently? |
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Andrew |
Message #50193, posted by andrew at 12:09, 24/1/2004, in reply to message #50172 |
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It's one of those games that I've never seen like Flashback and that other one beginning with F or some other letter  |
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fwibbler |
Message #50206, posted by fwibbler at 21:46, 24/1/2004, in reply to message #50172 |
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CJE have it, complete with a review by someone.
Cheers! |
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John Hoare |
Message #50208, posted by moss at 22:20, 24/1/2004, in reply to message #50206 |
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CJE have it, complete with a review by someone.
Cheers! Ah yes, I see it
It is nice to see that we can still get hold of the products, at any rate; although £15 for such an old game is a bit steep  |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #50228, posted by Phlamethrower at 23:33, 25/1/2004, in reply to message #50193 |
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It's one of those games that I've never seen like Flashback and that other one beginning with F or some other letter You poor soul, Flashback was great! |
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #50684, posted by rich at 11:40, 4/2/2004, in reply to message #50018 |
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You remember how Rich wasn't around here for about five months? That's where he was. And all he wanted was to borrow the stapler.  Should you call a search party, or should I? 
I'm still waiting for our glorious leader to make an appearance in the office 
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Phil Mellor |
Message #50689, posted by monkeyson2 at 12:20, 4/2/2004, in reply to message #50684 |
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I'm still waiting for our glorious leader to make an appearance in the office Hence you posting on TIB rather than working?  |
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #50694, posted by rich at 12:41, 4/2/2004, in reply to message #50689 |
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I'm still waiting for our glorious leader to make an appearance in the office Hence you posting on TIB rather than working?
No, I'm posting on TIB instead of playing TA, because one of the directors is using Foggy's office ATM. Dashed bad show. It is lunchtime now and everything, don'tcha know?
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #50705, posted by rich at 14:47, 4/2/2004, in reply to message #50684 |
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I'm still waiting for our glorious leader to make an appearance in the office Wouldn't you know, he turns up this very day? And on the same day there's TV cameras downstairs to do a piece on someone who doesn't even work here any more! (Richard Jelbert borrowing a bit of office space apparently).
Anyway, the news is....
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...the man from Imparo, he say yes!
Andrew says that he's fine with any old Eclipse games being released freeware (not PD), so long as Imparo retains copyright - and there's a message in the readme to say as much. Free distribution is okay, no money to be made, blah blah blah.
Now, there's going to be some exceptions:
* Dune II (rights sold to CJE)
* Global Effect (port from another company)
* Xenon 2 (port from another company)
* Anything with James Pond in (port from another company)
Basically, stick to the Tom Cooper stuff and you should be OK.
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #50707, posted by Phlamethrower at 14:55, 4/2/2004, in reply to message #50705 |
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...the man from Imparo, he say yes! Yay! |
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Michael Drake |
Message #50710, posted by tlsa at 15:17, 4/2/2004, in reply to message #50707 |
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...the man from Imparo, he say yes! Yay!
Wew! |
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John Hoare |
Message #50722, posted by moss at 17:17, 4/2/2004, in reply to message #50710 |
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...the man from Imparo, he say yes! Yay!
Wew!
Excellent!
Right, erm, which first, then? And I'll definitely do the web stuff if people want me to (looking good in RO browsers, of course), as I need a break from G&T what with all the arguments recently |
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Phil Mellor |
Message #50726, posted by monkeyson2 at 17:43, 4/2/2004, in reply to message #50722 |
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YAYAYAYAYAY!
All I need now is for Adrian to finish Aemulor Pro so that I can run them. |
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John Hoare |
Message #50804, posted by moss at 22:43, 5/2/2004, in reply to message #50722 |
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Right, erm, which first, then? Well?
How about Wavelength... |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #50806, posted by Phlamethrower at 22:47, 5/2/2004, in reply to message #50804 |
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Hamsters, you moose!
Actually I was waiting for someone to tell us where we can get copies of the games. No point them being free if we don't have any copies to give away |
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Jason Togneri |
Message #50809, posted by filecore at 23:01, 5/2/2004, in reply to message #50193 |
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It's one of those games that I've never seen like Flashback and that other one beginning with F or some other letter Fire and Ice? I had that for a while but sold it when I was a bit desperate for cash. Shame, because all those little wolf cubs (or whatever they were) following you around was cool.
Anyway I had (and still have) Flashback, between that and Syndicate are some of the ports to the  that I still play. Great stuff!
Oh not forgetting  |
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John Hoare |
Message #50810, posted by moss at 23:07, 5/2/2004, in reply to message #50806 |
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Hamsters, you moose! Yes! 
Actually I was waiting for someone to tell us where we can get copies of the games. No point them being free if we don't have any copies to give away Erm, same here I only played the demo. That was bloody great...
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JMB |
Message #50812, posted by jmb at 23:12, 5/2/2004, in reply to message #50806 |
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Hamsters, you moose!
Actually I was waiting for someone to tell us where we can get copies of the games. No point them being free if we don't have any copies to give away And you'd better curry some 32bit versions so I can put my Iyonix to good use |
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Adrian Lees |
Message #50817, posted by adrianl at 01:34, 6/2/2004, in reply to message #50726 |
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YAYAYAYAYAY!
All I need now is for Adrian to finish Aemulor Pro so that I can run them. Yeah, yeah, nag, nag.
Working on it, http://freespace.virgin.net/a.m.lees/images/screen.jpg |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #50940, posted by Phlamethrower at 00:27, 9/2/2004, in reply to message #49812 |
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*digs up an old post to reply to*
Everything by Berty. Especially Hamsters.
Top Banana and Big Bang. I don't think anyone really knows who wrote Big Bang (and Revolver), except that they were called Psycore. FWICR there were no credits or anything
Assuming all these games will be stuffed on an Acorn Arcade sub-domain as usual, may I suggest tartysmart.acornarcade.com?
(Which reminds me - we'll also need a copy of Dinosaw to go up there )
And for those having monitor problems getting the Hamsters demo running (and presumably the full version too), all you need to do is comment out the 'RMLoad Mode120' line in the !Run file, and it should work fine |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #51080, posted by Phlamethrower at 01:07, 11/2/2004, in reply to message #50940 |
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*bump*
So, er, does anyone have copies of any of the games? |
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Phil Mellor |
Message #51081, posted by monkeyson2 at 01:36, 11/2/2004, in reply to message #51080 |
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I have DarkWood... BUT it has copy protection requiring the original Disc 1.
Have they given us permission to hack the protection out? |
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Michael Drake |
Message #51085, posted by tlsa at 09:07, 11/2/2004, in reply to message #51080 |
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I have demos of Wavelength, DarkWood and Hamsters, if they're any use. I don't think they work on my RISC PC though. (SA, RO4) I think the DarkWood one, at least, can be started with the cache off.
I can't check right now as I'm at uni.
Is the aim to make them RISC OS 4, RISC OS 5 and SA, 32-bit compatible? |
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #51086, posted by rich at 09:26, 11/2/2004, in reply to message #51081 |
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I have DarkWood... BUT it has copy protection requiring the original Disc 1.
Have they given us permission to hack the protection out? Yes.
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Rich.
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #51087, posted by rich at 09:29, 11/2/2004, in reply to message #51085 |
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Is the aim to make them RISC OS 4, RISC OS 5 and SA, 32-bit compatible? RISC OS 4/SA would be a good starting place. 32bit is still a niche market, and I don't have a machine like that, so you only have to get it working on machines I have access to
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Adrian Lees |
Message #51088, posted by adrianl at 10:48, 11/2/2004, in reply to message #51087 |
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OK, I've just plugged in the hard drive from Neil's old A3K (my brother bought it from him circa 1995) and - to its credit - the Iyonix reads it flawlessly.
So, we have:
!WaveDemo
Aggressor
Alderbaran
AsylumDem
BattleChess
BirdOfWar
!Chaos
ChuckRock
Diggers
Dune2
Elite
Fervour
FireBall
FlashBack
Interdictor
Karma
Lemmings
Lemmings2
LotusII
MadProf
Magnetoids
Mig_29
Flag Day
Lander
Meteors
Moonquake
Star3000
Styx
MPockets
Paradroid
SR2000
SWIV
TheHacker
Virt_Golf
XenonDemo
ZoolDemo
AcornDemo
CokeCan
FunkyDemo
Gallop
Gnashers
Hal
WimpWaves
Morph
If you now have the rights to any of these and want me to upload them, tell me how.
I'm sure I've seen DinoSaw ("Tarty smart!" at some point but I can't seem to find it now 
* Goes off for a mad frenzy of Pro testing * |
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Peter Howkins |
Message #51089, posted by flibble at 12:10, 11/2/2004, in reply to message #51088 |
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I've found Gyrinus 2 which is a Tom Cooper game, is that one that can be given away now ?
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