A new (old) Repton Game
Matthew Thompson
unearthed, it is called Repton : The Lost Realms and apparantly was
originally going to be Repton 4 but then it never happened and was
shelved.It was shown at a recent Retro Games event and hopefully this
will see the light of day as a BBC Micro release.
For information (not much at the moment) see
http://www.retrosoftware.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page where a
screenshot of the title page is displayed, and no it's not April 1st
either.
Sounds rather interesting !
cheers
Matthew
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Matthew Thompson <m...@REMOVETHISred-squirrel.com> wrote:
> It would appear that a Repton game for the BBC Micro has been
> unearthed, it is called Repton : The Lost Realms and apparantly was
> originally going to be Repton 4 but then it never happened and was
> shelved.It was shown at a recent Retro Games event and hopefully this
> will see the light of day as a BBC Micro release.
>
> For information (not much at the moment) see
> http://www.retrosoftware.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page where a
> screenshot of the title page is displayed, and no it's not April 1st
> either.
>
> Sounds rather interesting !
>
Seems like it was written around 1989. I wonder if the author wrote
from scratch?
Andrew
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Matthew Thompson
grou...@googlemail.com wrote:
I think so, have a look at this link.
http://www.nelsonit.net/~jon/BBCMicro/2001/05/01/111516.html
grou...@googlemail.com
Matthew Thompson <m...@REMOVETHISred-squirrel.com> wrote:
> In message <fbb298c5...@no.reply>
> grou...@googlemail.com wrote:
>
>> In message <2cb17fc34f...@mt.riscos.org>
>> Matthew Thompson <m...@REMOVETHISred-squirrel.com> wrote:
>
>>> It would appear that a Repton game for the BBC Micro has been
>>> unearthed, it is called Repton : The Lost Realms and apparantly was
>>> originally going to be Repton 4 but then it never happened and was
>>> shelved.It was shown at a recent Retro Games event and hopefully this
>>> will see the light of day as a BBC Micro release.
>>>
>>> For information (not much at the moment) see
>>> http://www.retrosoftware.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page where a
>>> screenshot of the title page is displayed, and no it's not April 1st
>>> either.
>>>
>>> Sounds rather interesting !
>>>
>> Seems like it was written around 1989. I wonder if the author wrote
>> from scratch?
>
> I think so, have a look at this link.
>
> http://www.nelsonit.net/~jon/BBCMicro/2001/05/01/111516.html
>
Seems like he did an Exile cheat as well. That's strange as the only
cheats published IIRC were the mapper, the editor and the
miscellaneous cheats program. James Bonfield wrote the cheat, mapper
and the editor according to TMU:
http://exile.acornarcade.com/FAQ.html
As you can see, there is another version of the editor and cheat by
somebody called "Peter Smith" but James Bonfield emailed me once about
his writing of the editor. So who is this Para?
If Stairway's DaveM is reading then perhaps he could shed light on the
mystery.
Andrew
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> In message <2cb17fc34f.MThomp...@mt.riscos.org>
> Matthew Thompson <m...@REMOVETHISred-squirrel.com> wrote:
>
> > It would appear that a Repton game for the BBC Micro has been
> > unearthed, it is called Repton : The Lost Realms and apparantly was
> > originally going to be Repton 4 but then it never happened and was
> > shelved.It was shown at a recent Retro Games event and hopefully this
> > will see the light of day as a BBC Micro release.
>
> > For information (not much at the moment) see
> > screenshot of the title page is displayed, and no it's not April 1st
> > either.
>
> > Sounds rather interesting !
>
> Seems like it was written around 1989. I wonder if the author wrote
> from scratch?
Dave
>
> Andrew
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