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Post by fgasking on Feb 11, 2005 3:20:20 GMT -5
I've emailed Steve Brown, who will know about this kind of stuff, and posted a link to this forum post. Hopefully he'll come up with some suggestions
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Post by Mark Jones Junior on Feb 11, 2005 6:41:55 GMT -5
Grand job, I await with baited bref!
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Post by Mark Jones Junior on Feb 11, 2005 12:29:19 GMT -5
It's all sorted. I'm going to send them off, when I get them in my hands from me parent's attic, to Andrew Barker (ZX Spectrum Preservation Project Manager - newton.sunderland.ac.uk/~specfreak/ ) and he's kindly offered to see if he can retrieve the data from them.
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Post by Bill Harbison on Feb 11, 2005 12:37:44 GMT -5
It's all sorted. I'm going to send them off, when I get them in my hands from me parent's attic, to Andrew Barker (ZX Spectrum Preservation Project Manager - newton.sunderland.ac.uk/~specfreak/ ) and he's kindly offered to see if he can retrieve the data from them. Send it this way if you get anything, ask him if he can save any bitmaps as PNGs so that there's no lossy.
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Post by Paulie on Feb 11, 2005 12:39:10 GMT -5
OMG... the return of "Ocean Draw"
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Post by Mark Jones Junior on Feb 11, 2005 12:47:50 GMT -5
Oh I wondered what the cart with 'Water Draw' written on it was. (Ocean=Water mmmm) Gawsh, what a wag I was! Wasn't it just a modified version of Melbourne Draw?
I see also there's a cart with 'Mike's Map Editor', this was the utility that Ronnie Fowles did his 'Renegade' maps with IIRC.
I wonder what other 'delights' are lurking on them there 52 carts!
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Post by Paulie on Feb 11, 2005 15:42:40 GMT -5
IIRC it was Melbourne Draw with a tagged on sprite grabber - I think "BTF" did it.
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Post by fgasking on Feb 11, 2005 18:58:42 GMT -5
Anyone still have C64 disks they want porting? Anything I can document on my unreleased game site? .... ( cs.c64.org)
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Post by Mark Jones Junior on Feb 20, 2005 18:15:45 GMT -5
The carts are now in the hands of Andy Barker. Fingers crossed.
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Post by Mark Jones Junior on Feb 23, 2005 10:51:02 GMT -5
Just got this email from Andy Barker
"So, to data, I'm managed to recover the Athena, Ice Hockey, Iron Sword, Arkanoid and VERY interestingly Total Recall. There's been a disussion on our internal WOS MIA mailing list about the unreleased Total Recall that was canned as they failed the deadline. Could this cart contain graphics for it, they don't seem to be the same as the one I've played and own on Tape and Disk. Shall I send you stuff as and when ?"
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Post by Swainy on Feb 23, 2005 10:58:58 GMT -5
If all the graphics are there... Maybe someone can program it with decent scrolling this time?
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Post by Mark Jones Junior on Feb 23, 2005 19:34:37 GMT -5
Andy's just sent me the first batch of stuff recovered from my carts. These include some 'Athena' mock ups that were never used (I showed Bill just now, he says he prefers mine to the ones used! ), a start I made on the loading screen (again not used). Some graphics for an Ice-Hockey game that never came out. Some screens showing the development of the 'Arkanoid II' loading screen. There's about 25 screens of stuff drawn for the unreleased version of 'Total Recall', including a mock up of the end screen with a nice graphic of a volcano going off and the text "Well done Mr Buzzard, you've saved Mars from Little Miss Muffet and her Wendy gang. Don't you feel proud? I would! Press any key to play this sh*te all over again!" Lots of screens of sprites, objects and 2 screens of bitmap images used to illustrate the story. Then there's some screens of sprites and mock ups of a game I was working on in my spare time (in between projects) called 'IronSword'. Got some big fat sprites of a helmeted lead character, a big winged demon thing, tied up princesses and princes and a monk laden down with a huge back-pack full of goods to buy. Again, never used. This is about 10 carts full, there's another 40 odd to go.
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Post by fgasking on Feb 24, 2005 3:39:26 GMT -5
I think the guy who runs this page would love to post up some pictures of Total Recall V1... tzxvault.retrogames.com/time.htmJust wish it was C64 stuff that was found here.. !
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Post by Mark Jones Junior on Mar 7, 2005 14:16:59 GMT -5
Just received the last lot of screens saved from my drives. 422 screens were readable all together. I'm waiting for the animation and map files and utilites to come through then that's is all done with!
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Post by Swainy on Mar 7, 2005 15:41:58 GMT -5
When will we get to see them Mark?
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