On Tuesday, 2 August 2022 at 21:51:24 UTC+1, Roger Durrant wrote:
On Thursday, 27 September 2012 at 20:55:54 UTC+1, Jason Togneri wrote:
For historical interest, here's his correspondence to me (actually he contacted me, rather than the other way round - I had forgotten that detail):
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Hi mate - about a year ago you posted this thread: http://www.iconbar.com/forums/viewthread.php?threadid=10008
I realise it was a long time ago, but I just googled and came across
it.
In your list you have the game:
Gorm v1.40 (1994)(Archimedes World)
Well.. I wrote that :) As Arc World distributed it, they officially
held
the copyright, but they are no more. Not sure legally how it stands,
but I
have no objection with you distributing it if you want.
Do you have a copy? Would be fascinating to see what my programming
was
like 14 years ago!
Kind regards
Chris
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I replied, telling him I loved Gorm. He responded once again:
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Hi Jason,
Thats cool - didn't realise anyone really got into the game, glad to
hear
it was fun! All programmed with good old BBC BASIC.. Don't know if you ever saw the full 2-part solution in Archimedes World that I wrote, I don't think I have those back issues any more, and the electronic
version
has long since been lost :(
I'm in London now, working as a developer for a web agency, but I long
for
the days I used to be able to work away on little projects and get
them
onto cover disks! Though the pay back then wasn't so good - Arc World
gave
me the not-so-generous sum of £40 for the entire game and complained
that
the game was getting too big - the reason behind the pictures being
simple
black & white I seem to remember!
Making me feel all nostalgic :)
Cheers
Chris
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Hello Chris
I don't know if you are still reading thus but if so I have a question. What is the correct way through the maze? I can move South from the flight of stairs through the magic wall then S, E and N through more magic walls where I find a key. Beyond this
and mapping the whole maze conventionally I am at a bit of an impasse. I have got as far as obtaining the wand from the bar-maid and giving it to the wizard together with the potion. However the old man and the vicar remain obstinately unresponsive.
Regards
Roger Durrant
Roger Du
I have, true to form managed to escape from the maze after sending my question in. The maze is as tricky as any ever compiled by the Phoenix crowd; the walls are magic and it takes a lot of mapping and dying (annoyingly the policeman recognises you
through your disguise and kills you in the maze). In the Police Station he doesn't.
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