Date   : Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:58:24 +0100
From   : "Rich Talbot-Watkins" <rich@...>
Subject: Re: Any new games?

"Daniel Johnson" <D.Johnson@...> wrote:

> I recently noticed some new games written for an Atari VCS emulator.
> I was wondering, does anyone still write games for the BBC for the fun
> of it, or is it just regarded as an exercise in futility!
> If anyone has any I would be most interested in having a look.

Actually, I've just remembered something else - many moons ago (was about
1993 I think), my friend Matt Godbolt and I wrote a beeb game called
Onslaught - it was at first going to be offered to Superior, but the market
was dying (as was our motivation and free time!), so then it was going to be
an Acorn User type-in series (watch the evolution of a machine code game,
wow!), and then they dropped the 8-bit stuff, so it ended up sitting on a
5.25" disc for years.

I've still got it lying around - unfinished (obviously!) - it's a fast and
furious scrolling wrap-around, platform,
shoot-the-hell-out-of-everything-and-destroy-the-generators 'em up, with lots
of types of enemies - very loosely based on "Teddy Boy" on the Sega Master
System, if anyone's seen that.  Hmmm, probably makes it sound better than it
is, but if anyone's interested, and can suggest a way of getting it off a
5.25" disc, you can have a look.  Don't see any reason why it wouldn't run on
an emulator...

Ahhhhh, the nostalgia!!!

Cheers,
Rich :)

PS are these messages taking *forever* to be received and re-sent by
majordomo or what?!