Date   : Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:25:18 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Chuckie Egg (was: Re: Econet-Ethernet bridge)

On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 22:50 +0100, Samwise wrote:
> > Could there have been an unofficial version of the game 
> > floating around
> > at the time which did have this feature? I know the one we 
> > used to play
> > was (shock, horror) a copied rather than original floppy. 
> 
> It was the fact that it was so easily copied to disk from the tape that
> contributed to CE being as popular as it was - it was in every school in the
> land!
> 
> I can't rule out the possibility that someone added it to a hack, but it
> doesn't appear to be in any of the ones I have come across:
> 
> http://www.bagshot-row.org/chuckie-egg/hacksandupgrades.html
> 

Hmm, well I checked and I don't have a copy of the version I used to
play years ago - I appear to have copied Repton, Citadel and Pole
Position but not Chuckie Egg :-(

I did however find a disk with the original version on plus a couple of
others:

1) RogueSoft / K. Pryde  - 8 new levels, multi-speed, variable jump
(seems to be the same as the Bit Twiddlers version on your website)

2) Variant by Dave Bruce (c. 1984) which appears to just be new levels
(and the duck replaced by a helicopter for some reason!)

No sign of two ducks though...