Date   : Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:37:30 +0100
From   : "Rich Talbot-Watkins" <Richard_Watkins@...>
Subject: Re: More tape to disc transfer fun: Alien 8

James Fidell <james@...> wrote:

> Quoting F. Haroon (haroonpd@...):
>
> > What, actually getting Alien 8 to run on disk?  Please
> > send us the code!!
>
> Does the version on TBL not work on disk then?

A real Beeb would run it OK I'm sure (although it'd need OS 1.20, just like
any of Ultimate's stuff, grrrrrr) but I reckon an emulator would have problems
unless it was so accurate that it could deal with the nasty decryption code.
It does the whole thing again once it's loaded y'see.

> If I find a way to turn the BBC BASIC source into something plain ASCII,
> I'll post it.

That'd be great, thanks.
Rich
Rich Talbot-Watkins
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Cambridge.
Richard_Watkins@...