Date   : Tue, 05 Sep 2000 00:15:26 +0100
From   : Tom Seddon <T.W.Seddon@...>
Subject: Re: FRAK!

>===== Original Message From James Fidell <james@...> ====
>Quoting fastcar@... (fastcar@...):
>
>> Who wrote Frak and more imporantly, WHY?!?!
>>
>> There is something so great about it. Can't quite put my finger on it 
though.
>>
>> Also, did they write any others?
>
>Wasn't Frak! one of Orlando's creations?  If so, he definitely wrote other
>stuff for the Beeb.  I think someone even posted his e-mail address some
>time back.  What really did my head in about Frak! was when it went into
>"upside down" mode.  Now that was bizarre.

Yeah, Orlando wrote Frak!. He also wrote Arcadians (Acornsoft), 3D Pool 
(Firebird, unreleased), Firetrack (Electric Dreams) and, of course, Zalaga 
(Aardvark Software). He went on to write Wing Commander for the Amiga, not one 
of his better efforts (though it was a good effort and quite acceptable on the 
A1200).

The upside-down mode was indeed cool, though I must admit that I only got that 
far by using the cheat.

Random trivia: There was a hacked version of Frak! where the monsters were 
naked women and, hey!, guess what he said when he died... (clue: it begins 
with 'F' and ends with 'k', but ain't "Frak" :-)

--Tom

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--Tom
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