Date   : Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:44:09 +0100
From   : bbcmicro@... (bill carr)
Subject: Repton 2 - which version?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Forbes" <mjforbes@...>
To: <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:31 AM
Subject: [BBC-Micro] Repton 2 - which version?


> Hi all,
>
> Spent a good few hours yesterday playing (emulated) Repton 2, only to
> remember about half-way through that there were some versions that were
> incompletable, thanks to a bug in the program.  Not wishing to waste too
> much time, and end up chucking the laptop out of the window, I gave up and
> got on with some work (which I should have been doing in the first place).
>
> Looking at the disk images that I've downloaded from the STH website, I've
> got three different versions, (repton2.ssd, repton2-alt.ssd and
> repton2-alt2.ssd) some with red text on the status page, some with blue.
> Also, some of them show the "watch out for speech" banner on the loading
> screen.
>
> Can anyone tell me which of these is a completable game, as I'd love to
> finish this monster (never managed it as a kid), and don't want to waste
> hours!

I would use repton2.ssd, as this appears to be the version from The Superior 
Collection Volume 2, which would've have the previous bug squashed.

>
> Many thanks,
>
> Matt
>
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> Matt Forbes
> Southsea - Hampshire - UK
>
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