Missing BBC Games HELP REQUIRED!

[ggubbins]

good work

Thanks!

Going back even further in this thread, the A&F title "Early Warning" no longer appears in the "Missing" list (or on bbcmicro.co.uk), can anyone say what happened with that one?

[leenew]

good work

Thanks!

Going back even further in this thread, the A&F title "Early Warning" no longer appears in the "Missing" list (or on bbcmicro.co.uk), can anyone say what happened with that one?

Hi,
I removed it from the list 18 months ago as we won the game on ebay - along with the unknown "Doomstar Adventure".
The tapes went to Arcadian but I don't think he ever did anything with them? Or it may have been faulty?
In any case I will add it back to the missing list.

Lee

[leenew]

It has been suggested we make this a sticky...
Well that's up to the admins

The previous thread "Record of known releases missing from the archive" sounded a bit long-winded, so this is a new thread.
"Missing BBC Games" Snappy!

If anyone knows ANYTHING about any of the following games, please let us know!

The full list of games thought to have had a professional release, but are missing from all known archives is as follows:

3D Software (West Coast Personal Computers) --- 3D Golf -
3D Software (West Coast Personal Computers) --- Doves -

A Carver --- Alpha Worm -
A Carver --- Bouncing The Cat -
A Carver --- Life Survival -
A Carver --- Maximus -
A Carver --- Memy -
A Carver --- Pairs -
A Carver --- Starshot II -
A Carver --- Lander -
A Carver --- Treasure Hunt -
A Carver --- Mastermind -
All of the 10 games above were sold on one disc.

A Holmes --- Mutant Attack -
A Holmes --- Wild West -
A Holmes --- Earth Defence -
A Holmes --- Auto Dodge -
A Holmes --- Super Breakout -
All the above 5 games were sold together in one package.

A Lane --- Diamonds -
A Lane --- Ghost Hunter -
A Lane --- Hangman -
A Lane --- Helicopter Rescue -
A Lane --- Road Race -
A Lane --- Tunnel -

A&F --- Minefield - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE
A&F --- Early Warning -
A&F --- Polecat -
A&F --- Roadrunner -
A&F --- Snarl Up -
A&F --- Uranium Factor - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE

ABC Games --- Link4Plus -

Ablesoft --- Word Puzzles (Crossword, Cross-Fit, Cross Reference, Crossgram) -

Acorn User (Optima? Micrograf?) --- Crazee Caverns - (By Mark Smiddy)

Act Fast Progs --- Car Auctions -
Act Fast Progs --- Quiz Climber -
Act Fast Progs --- Poker -

Addictive Games --- Stringer - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE

Adventuresoft --- Sword of the Samurai - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE

Adventure International --- Steve Jackson's Swordmaster Series -HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE

A.E Allcock --- Battleships -
A.E Allcock --- Space Invaders -
A.E Allcock --- Reversi (Othello) -

Akom --- Akross (Crossword Compiler - not a game?) -
Akom --- The Sun Computer Crosswords Vol 1 to 13 -
Akom --- The Times Computer Crosswords Vol 2 to 13 -

Alien --- The Ultimate Crossword -

Alligata --- Pub Games - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE

Amcom --- Whitewash -

Amfas --- The Official Everton F.C. Intelligensia -

Andrew Globe --- Blob, The -

Andromeda Systems --- Colonists of Procyon -

Anthony Gaisford Software --- Submarine Simulator -

Apocalypse --- Miss Molly Mop -

Arrowsoft --- Fighter -
Arrowsoft --- Pontoon -
Arrowsoft --- Zombies Revenge -

Aztec Games --- Bounty Pirates -
Aztec Games --- Mission Impossible -
Aztec Games --- Princes -
Aztec Games --- Squash -

B. Cridland --- Invaders -
B. Cridland --- Breakout -
B. Cridland --- Dodgems -
B. Cridland --- Pacman -
B. Cridland --- 3D Maze -
Some of these games were later published by IJK Software.

BBC Soft --- Games Pack 1 - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE

Beaufort --- Radar -

Beebugsoft --- Leapfrog Solitaire / Knockout (Double Cassette) -

BJ Flynn --- Grandslam -

Blade Games --- Laser Squad - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE

Blue Moon Software --- Kubla Khan -

Bridge Games (Bridge Software) --- Bridgeman -
Bridge Games (Bridge Software) --- Molecula (AKA Beat The Bug) -

Bryants --- Monster Battles -
Bryants --- Show Jumper -

Bug Byte --- Dragon Quest 2 - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE
Bug Byte --- Fruit Machine -

BusCo (The Bus Company) --- Yatze -
BusCo (The Bus Company) --- Synthisiser -

Butronics --- Horse Race Forecaster - not a game
Butronics --- Pools Forecaster - not a game

CDS --- 3D Painter - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE
CDS --- European Superleague - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE

Chalksoft --- Top Of The Pops -

Challenge Games --- Mansion Murders -

Checkmate Publications --- Charting Success -

Clemoes Software (Bevan Technology) --- Go -
Clemoes Software (Bevan Technology) --- Arcade Games: (Cosmoids, BugVaders and Bogiemen) -

CMG --- Cresvillion - This is a computer moderated board game

CMS (Computer & Media Services Ltd.) --- Bomber Run -
CMS (Computer & Media Services Ltd.) --- Black Hole -
CMS (Computer & Media Services Ltd.) --- Dive Bombers -

CompuSoft --- Bandit -
CompuSoft --- Space Mission Simulator -

Computercat --- Othello -
Computercat --- Bounce -
Computercat --- Compendium (4 up version 1, 4 up version 2, and Poke the peg) -
Computercat --- Grig Blitz -

Computersmith --- 3D Ice Hockey -
Computersmith --- Copter Fight -
Computersmith --- Detective -
Computersmith --- Games Pack (Silverstone, Midway, Stuntman) -
Computersmith --- Golf -
Computersmith --- Guzzler -
Computersmith --- Oil -

Comsoft --- Jet Pilot - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE

Control Technology --- Countryside Packman -
Control Technology --- Missile Commander -
Control Technology --- Tank Zone -
Control Technology --- Cylon Attack -
Control Technology --- Phoenix -

Cottage Software --- Fruit -
Cottage Software --- The Lost Crown -

CPT --- Druid Quest Trilogy 1 Druid Quest -
CPT --- Druid Quest Trilogy 2 Castle Of Doom -
CPT --- Druid Quest Trilogy 3 Conn's Revenge -

CSL Microdata --- Beebtape 1 (Crawler and Runners) -
CSL Microdata --- Beebtape 3 (Concentration) -
CSL Microdata --- Beebtape 6 (Guess) -

D Spencer --- Football League Team -

DACC --- Mercy Mission To Mars -

Database Software--- Beeb Chase -
Database Software --- Connect 4 -
Database Software --- Devil Run -
Database Software --- Star Maze -

David McKeran --- Space Invaders Part II -

Desk Flair --- Quest, The -
Desk Flair --- Ski Runner / Alien Runner -

DIMAX --- Space Trek -

DK'Tronics --- Tramix -

Dobsoft (R.A. Lober) --- Grange Adventure -
Dobsoft (R.A. Lober) --- Hell's Landing -
Dobsoft (R.A. Lober) --- Lasers -

Doctor Soft --- Bondski -
Doctor Soft --- Fireman -
Doctor Soft --- Ghost Mine -
Doctor Soft --- Mission Alpha 3D -
Doctor Soft --- Muncher -
**Muncher, Ghost Mine, Mission Alpha, Kremlin, Bondski, and Fireman were sold on a games disc package.
**Muncher and Ghost Mine were sold as a double cassette.

Dotsoft --- Partner Whist -
Dotsoft --- Draughts -
Dotsoft --- Darts -

Eduquest --- Minefield -

Ephagy --- Fruity Fruity -
Ephagy --- Stuka! -

ERCS: The Software People --- Attack of the Mutoids -

Excalibur --- Quest For Merlin -

Falconsoft --- Millennium / Millenium -

Fernleaf --- Hereward The Rebel -

First Byte (FBC) --- Alien -
First Byte (FBC) --- Caves Of Anoran -
First Byte (FBC) --- Descender -
First Byte (FBC) --- King Ape -
First Byte (FBC) --- Starfighter -
First Byte (FBC) --- Vader Raid -

Foxsoft --- Matthews Murder -
Foxsoft --- Quest For The Golden Wombat -

Frazer Bennett --- Castle Of Fantasy -

Futura Software --- Space Games Pack 1 (UFO Invasion, Corridor of Lasers, Robot Chase) -
Futura Software --- Space Games Pack 2 (Alien Starfighter, Missile Launch, Zayon Alert) -

Games Workshop --- Tower Of Despair - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE

Ganymede Systems --- Five Mind Bending Programs (Sliding Blocks Puzzle, Draughts, Noughts & Crosses, Master Brain, Simon's Game) -

Glengary --- Concentration -
Glengary --- Cosmonoids -
Glengary --- Life -
Glengary --- Darts -
Glengary --- Slingshot -
Glengary --- Mouse Maze -

Godax --- Cyboto - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE

Golden Challenge Software --- Caligula I -

Golem --- Cruncher -

Grandslam --- World War 1 - This possibly is World War 1 by Argus Press Software which is archived.

Griffin Software --- Prairie Shootout -

GT Software --- Landfall - Is this the same as the Virgin Games release?
GT Software --- Serpent -

Helix Soft (James Hager) --- Centipede -

Hexagon --- Cells And Serpent -

High Voltage --- Strip Pontoon -
High Voltage --- Witchcraft Revealed - not a game

Hopesoft --- Atom Man - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE
Hopesoft --- Escape From Orion 2 - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE

Hornby Software --- Pro Golf (Troon, Newbirkdale, Wentworth East & West) Also Moortown 1984 course -

Inspiring Software --- Zarlix -

Interface Publications (Creating Adventures On Your BBC Micro) (Missing Book)
The book contains the following text adventures:

THE HOUSE THAT JAMES BUILT
FANTASY MANSION
LOVES SWEET GARDEN
ELSIE THE AARDVARK GOES LUNAR SURVEYING
IN MY LIVERPOOL HOME
SHODDY IN FUNLAND
KINGDOM OF THROLL
LOST IN SPACE

Ixion --- Cliche, The -
Ixion --- Community -
Ixion --- Interzone Shift -
Ixion --- Life -

J.D. Tronics --- Bounty Hunter -

J. Robinson --- Pop Quiz -

J. Wilkinson --- Labyrinth -

Kansas --- Card Sharper - (Pontoon, Pairs, and Hi-Lo)
Kansas --- Space Cab -
Kansas --- Battlezone Six - (BBC Version)

Kay-Dee Software --- Devil's Causeway -

Kay-Ess Computer Products (Previously Orion Software) --- Star Hawks - We already have this under the Orion Software banner.
Kay-Ess Computer Products (Previously Orion Software) --- Hangman -
Kay-Ess Computer Products (Previously Orion Software) --- Space Traffic Controller - Probably not released under the Orion banner.
Kay-Ess Computer Products (Previously Orion Software) --- Horses -
Kay-Ess Computer Products (Previously Orion Software) --- Space Tank -
Kay-Ess Computer Products (Previously Orion Software) --- Noughts And Crosses -

Kingfisher --- Car Race -

Kudusoft --- Jungle Ambush -
Kudusoft --- Star Battle
Kudusoft --- Star Lander (Model A) -
Kudusoft --- Star Patrol -

Labyrinth --- Quest For The Pendragon -

Laserbug --- Suicide Mission - (by Robert Leong)

Leisure Genius --- Risk - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE

Level 9 --- Colossal Adventure (16K version) -
Level 9 --- Adventure Quest (16K version) -

Livewire --- Whist -

London Software Company --- Arcade Action Pac One (Megapede, Hexhopper, Phoenix) -
London Software Company --- Arcade Action Pac Two (Turbo, Centipede Breakout, 3D Missile Command) -
London Software Company --- Adventure One -
London Software Company --- Adventure Two -

Lowmac Software --- Compute-A-Win (Flat Racing / National Hunt Racing) -

M. Whiteside --- Two Action Games (Racetracks, Grand Prix) -

M&M --- Konexion -
M&M --- Pontoon -

Macsen --- East Enders -

Magic Software --- Ghosts Of Grunley Grammar -

Martech --- Conflict - (A computer moderated board game)
Martech --- Vixen - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE

Mayday --- Life Plus -
Mayday --- Pools Predictor - not a game

Melbourne --- Mordon's Quest - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE

Micro Aid --- Battle -
Micro Aid --- Cards -
Micro Aid --- Cribbage -
Micro Aid --- Games 1 (5 Card, Minefield, Darts, Pontoon and Mrmidon)
Micro Aid --- Hangman -

Micro-Jenn Software (M-JS) --- Towers Of Hanoi -
Micro-Jenn Software (M-JS) --- Micro-Niners -
Micro-Jenn Software (M-JS) --- General Knowledge Quiz -

Micromode --- Copter -

Microplus Software --- Backgammon -
Microplus Software --- Battleships -
Microplus Software --- Blitz -
Microplus Software --- Channel -
Microplus Software --- Codecracks / Hi-Lo -
Microplus Software --- Demolish -
Microplus Software --- Dots And Boxes -
Microplus Software --- Fives And Threes -
Microplus Software --- Galactic Mission -
Microplus Software --- Glooper -
Microplus Software --- Golf -
Microplus Software --- Grand Prix -
Microplus Software --- Pilot -

Micro Power --- Mastermind (May be the already archived game, Codebreaker / Code Breaker?) -
Micro Power --- Reversi 1 OR Reversi 2 - (Unsure which one is archived)
Micro Power --- Space Fighter (For the BBC) - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE

Microbyte --- Mekon Raiders (E) -
Microbyte --- Space Chase (E) -
Microbyte --- Trench Run (E) -

Microdata --- Beebtape 1 (Runners and Crawler) -
Microdata --- Beebtape 3 (Concentration) -
Microdata --- Beebtape 6 (Guess) -

Micromail --- Games Tape 1 - Vogon Attack, Shuttle Lander, Towers of Hanoi, Robot Battle, Four in a Row -
Micromail --- Games Tape 2 - Death Castle, Adventure Maze, Battleships, Mastermind, Rat Shoot, Number Invaders, Computer Hangman -

Microtrust (NEC) --- Crossword Puzzler - UTILITY?
Microtrust (NEC) --- Twenty Crosswords -

Mill Soft --- Games Pack 1 - Bandit, Hangman, Lotto
Mill Soft --- Games Pack 2 - Poker, Sums, Give And Take
Mill Soft --- Games Pack 3 - Draughts, O's And X's, Countdown
Mill Soft --- Games Pack 4 - Bingo, Battleships, Rummy
Mill Soft --- Games Pack 5 - Kiosk, Scissors-Paper-Stone, Snap
Mill Soft --- Games Pack 6 - Roulette, Pontoon, Horoscopes
Mill Soft --- Games Pack 7 - Solitaire, Grand National, Mazes
Mill Soft --- Games Pack 8 - Anagrams, Snakes And Ladders, Doodles
Mill Soft --- Games Pack 9 - Ludo, Tiddly-Winks, Dice
Mill Soft --- Games Pack 10 - Fox And Geese, Lazer Chamber, Number Quiz
Mill Soft --- Games Pack 11 - Nine Mens Morris, Heads Or Tails, Planets
Mill Soft --- Games Pack 12 - Tiles, Golf, Word Quiz
Mill Soft --- Map-Ventures - House Of Frankenstein
Mill Soft --- Map-Ventures - Realm Of Atlantis
Mill Soft --- Map-Ventures - Land Of Oz
Mill Soft --- Map-Ventures - Castle Of Dracula
Mill Soft --- Map-Ventures - Pyramid Of Tutankhamen
Mill Soft --- Map-Ventures - Maze Of The Minotaur
Mill Soft --- Map-Ventures - Valley Of Dinosaurs
Mill Soft --- Map-Ventures - Temple Of Zeus
Mill Soft --- Map-Ventures - Complex Of Numbers

Minic --- Bridge Mentor -

Model B Computing issue 11 --- (side 2 of the cassette only) (Light Bikes, Poker Dice, and Fruit) -

Molimerx --- Crusaders -
Molimerx --- King Arthur -
Molimerx --- Wonderland -
Molimerx --- Dreamland -

Morley Electronics --- Deepspace Agent -
Morley Electronics --- Sid The Snake -
Morley Electronics --- Spider Invasion -
Morley Electronics --- Androids -

Mosaic Software --- Magic Cube Puzzle -

MP --- Shootout -
MP --- Fallen Eagle -
MP --- Space Fighter -

MRJ --- The Heist -

Mythsoft --- Snow Joke -

N. Silver --- Sidewinder -

Noel Lamb --- How Is That -

O.K. Products --- Tom Thumb Adventure -
O.K. Products --- Fairyland Adventure -
O.K. Products --- In The Grip Of Ice -
O.K. Products --- River World Adventure -
O.K. Products --- The Halls Of Time -
O.K. Products --- International Special Agent -

Odin --- Nodes Of Yesod - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE

Odyssey --- Adventure 1 -
Odyssey --- Adventure 2 -
Odyssey --- Arcade 1 -
Odyssey --- Beeboids -

Off Records... --- Fruit Worm -
Off Records... --- Fruit -
Off Records... --- Jamcar -
Off Records... --- Labyrinth -

Orchestrated Computing (Later known as 'Program Direct') --- Space Trek (with Invaders, Blitz, Pinball) -
Orchestrated Computing (Later known as 'Program Direct') --- Adventure (with Invaders, Pontoon, Lunar Lander) -
Orchestrated Computing (Later known as 'Program Direct') --- Scramble (with Invaders, Breakout, Battleship) -

Orion Software (Later became Kay-Ess Computer Products) --- Hangman -
Orion Software (Later became Kay-Ess Computer Products) --- Space Tank -
Orion Software (Later became Kay-Ess Computer Products) --- Horses -
Orion Software (Later became Kay-Ess Computer Products) --- Noughts And Crosses -

Owl Software --- Ghost Chase -

Ozark Software (PASE) --- Super Tank -

Paean Systems --- Cosmic Intruders -
Paean Systems --- Fruit Gambler -
Paean Systems --- Delivery -

PASE --- Paseman -

Pennine Software Supplies --- Pinball Supreme - (Compilation including Mastermind, Simon, Bomber, and Solitaire)

Persoft --- Frenzy -

Players --- Quicksilva -

POM Software --- Fruit Machine (Games Pack 3) -

Potter Programs --- Grounded -

Premier Software --- Trivia Time -

Prickly --- Pinetown Golf Course - (On disc only, and for the BBC Master only)

Pro Software --- Games Tape 1 - (Moving Wall Breakout, Snake, and Hunt)
Pro Software --- Micro Man -

Prosoft --- Magic Grotto -

Processor Applications --- Games pack 1 - Tron, Life, and Cubic -
Processor Applications --- Games Pack 2 - Multimaze, Catch, and Bomber -

Program Bureau, The --- 3 In 1 Ludo / Patience / Solitaire -

Proteus Software --- Battleships -
Proteus Software --- Santa's Helper -

Proxima --- 2 Player Games Duet (4Line and Frustration) -
Proxima --- Games Quartet (Trawler, Light Cycles, Star Game, and 3D Tic-Tac-Toe) -
Proxima --- Robo Brain -

PSS --- Centipede -

Qual-Soft --- League Division 1 - (And the Revision 1 version of the game, both from 1984) -
Qual-Soft --- Portfolio -

R. Steggles --- American Trader -
R. Steggles --- Temple Of Disrondu -

Rainbow --- 3D Mouse Maze -

Ranjan --- Doctor, The -
Ranjan --- Galactic Jailer -
Ranjan --- Haunted Mansion -
Ranjan --- Mini Opoly -
Ranjan --- Night Rider -
Ranjan --- Zaks -
Ranjan --- SOFTWARE BONANZA - a 50 title compilation
SOFTWARE BONANZA titles include: Dr. Who, Tron, Zaxxon, Tempest, Laser Command, Meteors, Cots, Mastermind.

Red Giant Software --- Games Pack 1 (Mazog and Missile) -

Riverdale --- Aussie Suds - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE
Riverdale --- Paranormal - This is a "lifestyle" program rather than a game.
Riverdale --- What The Dickens -

ROMbus --- Exile to Exon -

Romsense --- Fall Of Rome, The -

S. Grist --- Search For The Jewels AKA Jewels Of Nabooti - Educational Adventure
S. Grist --- Cricket Simulation -

S. Houghton --- Frogger -
S. Houghton --- One Armed Bandit -

Salamander --- Abductor - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE
Salamander --- Fishy Business -
Salamander --- Gridrunner - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE
Salamander --- Lazer Zone - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE

Sapphire --- Frog Jump -
Sapphire --- Othello -
Sapphire --- Fun Pack (Gomoku, Space Maze, Life) -

Self published --- A.R.V. - (Armed Robbery with Violence, text adventure)

Serin Software --- Bridge Master -

Silver Birch --- Galactic Search -
Silver Birch --- Pit Stop -

Silver Fox Communications --- Fate ( Worse Than Death) -
Silver Fox Communications --- Flasher -

Silverlind --- Reversi -
Silverlind --- Gateway To The Stars -
Silverlind --- Haunted House -

Silversoft --- Crazy Caves -
Silversoft --- Starship Enterprise -
Silversoft --- 3D Connect 4 -
Silversoft --- Killer Satellite -

Simonsoft --- OG The Caveman -
Simonsoft --- The Memory Game -
Simonsoft --- Astrowars -

Sixth Sense --- Kalahari -

SNT --- Broanmaze -

Softly Softly - A Case Of Murder -

Software Express --- Shanghai -

Software For All --- Galaxians -
Software For All --- Ghost Maze -
Software For All --- Invaders -
Software For All --- Moon Lander -

Software Division Computer Services --- Anti-Aircraft Gun Simulator -

Software House, The --- Knockout -
Software House, The --- Star War -

Software Invasion --- Invaders -

Squirrel Soft --- Space Walker -
Squirrel Soft --- Codebreaker -

SRL --- Super Hangman -

SRM --- Centipede -
SRM --- Galaxians -
SRM --- Invaders -

Star Soft --- Pub Games Pack -

Starcade --- Up Up And Away -

Statasoft --- Ken 2 - KEN 2 IS A COMPILATION OF LUDO, MATCH UP, TABLES AND TANGRAMS, ONLY 'LUDO' BEING IN THE ARCHIVE
Statasoft --- Match Up -
Statasoft --- Tables -
Statasoft --- Tangrams -

Summerfield Software --- Return From Paris -
Summerfield Software --- Treasure Hunt -
Summerfield Software --- Tank Tracks -

Tigersoft --- Magic Of Merlin, The -

Tiger Software --- Convoy Search -
Tiger Software --- The Blue Path -

TNL Soft --- Fuglemere -
TNL Soft --- Gunslinger -
TNL Soft --- Legend -

Topologika --- Hezarin -
Topologika --- Myth of Moby -
Topologika --- Spysnatcher -

Tortoise --- Magic And Mayhem -

Twig Systems Software --- Take The Strain -
Twig Systems Software --- Air Sea Missile -
Twig Systems Software --- Cambridge -
Twig Systems Software --- Othello -
Twig Systems Software --- The Tower -
Twig Systems Software --- The Quiz -

Universal --- Top Team -

Utopia --- The Lair -

Vampyre Software --- Drilla Killa -
Vampyre Software --- Red Skies Over Accrington -

Vannin --- Double Turn -
Vannin --- Golden Maze -
Vannin --- Laser Attack -
Vannin --- Spider Speller -
Vannin --- The Facts of Europe

Viking --- Break Up - Probably same or similar to the C. Murton release?
Viking --- Robot - Probably same or similar to the C. Murton release?
Viking --- Skwosh -
Viking --- Spacefight - Probably same or similar to the C. Murton release?

Virgin Games --- Conflict - HIGHLY DOUBTFUL RELEASE

Vulcan Computing --- Entrepreneur -

Warex Soft --- Escape / Probe (both titles on one cassette)

Warlock Software --- Galactic Patrol - Is this the same as the Mastertronic game?

Willow Software --- Landing Party -

Here are the sources of the adverts confirming the existence of the above games: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=21870&hilit=sources

[ggubbins]

I removed it from the list 18 months ago as we won the game on ebay - along with the unknown "Doomstar Adventure".
The tapes went to Arcadian but I don't think he ever did anything with them? Or it may have been faulty?
In any case I will add it back to the missing list.

Thanks Lee

If Arcadian is around, as I mentioned in my previous post I got Micro-Aid's Flags working from the WAV of the faulty tape he posted here and I'm more than happy to have a crack at any other such tapes.

[Arcadian]

I know this is from a while ago, but I managed to recover a working .uef from Arcadian's recording, see attached.

A-maaaazing work!

Well done, really pleased to see this preserved, despite its simplicity.

Thanks for putting so much time and effort into generating a working file.

[ggubbins]

A-maaaazing work!

Well done, really pleased to see this preserved, despite its simplicity.

Thanks for putting so much time and effort into generating a working file.

No problem Arcadian, and thanks

[lurkio]

The cassette version of Satan's Challenge should probably go on the MIA list:

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/ ... Challenge/

The disc version might be worth adding to the list too because there's suspected corruption on the disc-image on bbcmicro.co.uk (which came from STH):

viewtopic.php?p=373822#p373822

[fuzzel]

I bought a USB "walkman" a few months ago and, inspired by Diminished's brilliant work using Quadbike, decided to connect it up to my PC to create a WAV file of an old C60 games cassette using Goldwave, converted it to a CSW file using CSWViewer then loaded the tape catalogue in B-Em. And lo and behold I found a missing game from PAJSOFT. No such luck getting the actual game itself to load but I have managed to run the loader. Time will tell if the actual game itself can be recovered...

[leenew]

Hi Fuzzel,
Does the loader say anything interesting? Author perhaps?

Lee

[fuzzel]

Afraid not.

[leenew]

Hi fuzzel,
We must try very hard to rescue this game!
On a hunch, I considered that PAJSoft may be Peter Johnson of Superior Software fame.
In this bio: https://www.mobygames.com/developer/she ... rId,15939/ he mentions writing a light-cycle game which sold 12 copies!
So, I emailed Peter, and he replied to confirm PAJSoft was him!
I have credited him for the other PAJSoft game on bbcmicro.co.uk, http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=1431 which Peter thinks may have been an early test for Overdrive which was later released by Superior!

Lee.

[Pernod]

On a hunch, I considered that PAJSoft may be Peter Johnson of Superior Software fame.
In this bio: https://www.mobygames.com/developer/she ... rId,15939/ he mentions writing a light-cycle game which sold 12 copies!
So, I emailed Peter, and he replied to confirm PAJSoft was him!

Nice detective work

[leenew]

On a hunch, I considered that PAJSoft may be Peter Johnson of Superior Software fame.
In this bio: https://www.mobygames.com/developer/she ... rId,15939/ he mentions writing a light-cycle game which sold 12 copies!
So, I emailed Peter, and he replied to confirm PAJSoft was him!

Nice detective work

Thanks!
I also corrected a game that we had incorrectly attributed to Peter Johnson.
Peter advised me that he did not write "Ladder Maze" from Superior Software. A quick dig through the listing shows it was by PAUL Johnson

Lee.

[Fraser]

Could I have a look at the CSW file of LiteCycles? It sounds like it is based upon the film Tron.

[fuzzel]

Happy to oblige. Here are the two CSW files I've created from the WAV files recorded:
EMIC60A.CSW - recorded using Goldwave and a USB Cassette Converter with volume set to 80%.
EMIC60F.CSW - recorded using Audacity and a USB Cassette Converter with volume set to 80%.
Note that the first file produced much better results, I loaded it in B-Em (it's after Cybertron Mission) and there are three files, Lightcycs (3 blocks, loads ok), Lightcyc1 (15 blocks, 2 appear to fail) and Lightcyc2 (4 blocks, looks ok).
I think the first two files are Basic with the third being a data file.
Good luck everyone!
PS I have the original WAV files on Google Drive, if anyone wants the links PM me.

EMIC60A.CSW

(2.12 MiB) Downloaded 31 times

EMIC60F.CSW

(1.17 MiB) Downloaded 34 times

[Fraser]

I looked at a WAV file and found the waves don't look balanced around the zero line. It could be the tape but your making things difficult by not using a standard cassette player.

[fuzzel]

I’m afraid I no longer have one. My beeb’s on the blink too. If someone local to me had the necessary equipment we could be in business.

[fuzzel]

[fuzzel]

As mentioned previously I'd sent Diminished a couple of WAV recordings of tapes for him to test his Quadbike program on. Well ok, in the hope that he'd be able to rescue a couple of programs of mine - Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D-minor (written by a schoolfriend) and Atlantis Adventure, written by me with same schoolfriend and submitted to a software house for evaluation (no joy there though). Diminished did a sterling job rescuing Toccata but unfortunately for me discovered that Atlantis was only half there. Anyway, that provided the impetus for me to randomly pick an old tape from a box of beeb stuff in the loft to see what else I might have, ideally a complete copy of Atlantis. As mentioned above what I got instead was a game I'd never heard of (not true, I had once heard of it but you know what I mean). I took the WAV file and used cswviewer to convert it to a CSW file. I'd picked up on the fact that although Beebem is pretty rubbish at loading CSW files (someone's going to disagree with this), B-Em is a whole lot better. Very frustratingly though I could only get the loader program to work (all three blocks of it). The main program of 15 blocks failed to load in several places. The final data file of three blocks appeared to be in one piece but I put that to one side, it being no use without the second file. The next few days became an abject lesson in frustration as I made numerous recordings using Goldwave and also enlisted the help of Diminished to set Quadbike on it. However, he found there was a bleed-through from a recording on the other side of the tape (music) which prevented successful capture of those bad blocks. Looking at the WAV file I also noticed that the peaks and troughs of the wave appeared to be much lower than the original recording. What I'd done for my second recording was to use my dad's old HiFi, an ITT HIFI 8021 cassette deck and I was now concerned that faulty unclean heads had irretrievably damaged the tape. Earlier today I sent Diminished yet another recording, this time in stereo, but he emailed back to say that the recording was blank. Curious, I played one of the earlier failed recordings and that also was silent, although bizarrely about half-way through I could hear my wife talking to my daughter on the phone. So I double-checked Goldwave's settings and it transpired that somehow I'd changed the microphone to an alternaive USB setting which obviously wasn't working. I then rerecorded the tape and this time when loading it in B-Em I discovered more bad blocks but, as luck would have it, they were different to the original ones. So now all I had to do was switch the tapes during loading and the second file, lightcycle2, loaded successfully. Cue pandemonium. Anyway, here's a copy of the game. I've changed the filenames for the disc version due to size limitations and also changed line 4 in LIGHT1 - the original program loaded LIGHT2 at E00 so I've loaded it at &7000 and moved it down. If anyone wants me to create a disc of the original files so a proper UEF tape version can be created then please let me know. Oh, and thanks for the game Peter, I hope it's a nice little early Christmas present for you if you didn't have it already.
EDIT - I've just read the posting by Leenew above which mentioned that Peter Johnson possibly lived in my neck of the woods which is I guess how I came to have a copy of the game, I imagine it circulated at the Washington computer club at The Galleries.
EDIT2 - sorry Lee, it was your post I should have referred to in the above paragraph not Pernod's (changed).

Litecycles.ssd

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[Diminished]

Well done.

This is about as far as I got with this.

Code: Select all

----|----------|------------|--------|--------|----|----|--------|---|--|--
 id    smpnum     filename     load     exec    num  len nextfile flg hE dE
----|----------|------------|--------|--------|----|----|--------|---|--|--
#  0 [  127712]  "LIGHTCYCS" ffff0e00 ffff801f    0  100        0          
#  1 [  268903]  "LIGHTCYCS" ffff0e00 ffff801f    1  100        0        DC
  > [  306595] Bad pulse seq (data) : 18,8,9,9  (35 more errors ...)

#  2 [ 1333215]  "LIGHTCYCS" ffff0e00 ffff801f    0  100        0          
#  3 [ 1474178]  "LIGHTCYCS" ffff0e00 ffff801f    1  100        0        DC
  > [ 1499042] Bad pulse seq (data) : 18,9,9,19  (10 more errors ...)

#  4 [ 2214217]  "Lightcyc1" ffff0e00 ffff801f    0  100        0          
#  5 [ 2355354]  "Lightcyc1" ffff0e00 ffff801f    1  100        0          
#  6 [ 2496400]  "Lightcyc1" ffff0e00 ffff801f    2  100        0          
#  7 [ 2637373]  "Lightcyc1" ffff0e00 ffff801f    3  100        0          
#  8 [ 2778512]  "Lightcyc1" ffff0e00 ffff801f    4  100        0          
#  9 [ 2919671]  "Lightcyc1" ffff0e00 ffff801f    5  100        0        DC
  > [ 2956790] Bad pulse seq (data) : 17,9,9,9  (6 more errors ...)

# 10 [ 3202911]  "Lightcyc1" ffff0e00 ffff801f    7  100        0        DC
  > [ 3250053] Bad pulse seq (data) : 18,8,9,18  (11 more errors ...)

# 11 [ 3486017]  "Lightcyc1" ffff0e00 ffff801f    9  100        0          
# 12 [ 3627587]  "Lightcyc1" ffff0e00 ffff801f    a  100        0          
# 13 [ 3769513]  "Lightcyc1" ffff0e00 ffff801f    b  100        0          
# 14 [ 3911626]  "Lightcyc1" ffff0e00 ffff801f    c  100        0          
# 15 [ 4053717]  "Lightcyc1" ffff0e00 ffff801f    d  100        0          
# 16 [ 4195547]  "Lightcyc1" ffff0e00 ffff801f    e   59        0 F        
# 17 [ 4743775]  "Lightcyc2"      e00      e00    0  100        0          
# 18 [ 4885768]  "Lightcyc2"      e00      e00    1  100        0          
# 19 [ 5027959]  "Lightcyc2"      e00      e00    2  100        0          
M: Errors: 66

[Dave_E]

I have two of the missing BBC B Silverlind games - Reversi and Haunted House. I will see if these can be imaged tomorrow.

Cover art and inlays are already on my Everygamegoing site.

[lurkio]

Do you have a working copy of Crossword Puzzler, Dave? The download link on EveryGameGoing is broken:

https://www.everygamegoing.com/litem/Cr ... ler/38780/

[Dave_E]

Yes, I have that one in Box 7 of my BBC Micro collection. I'll try and image that one at the same time. I don't think the download for that one has ever been available, not sure how the link managed to appear. If it had ever been available I would have added screenshots of it in action.

[iamaran]

I have two of the missing BBC B Silverlind games - Reversi and Haunted House. I will see if these can be imaged tomorrow.

Cover art and inlays are already on my Everygamegoing site.

It'd be great to see these!

[leenew]

Great stuff.
Thanks Dave.
Fingers crossed they image OK.

Lee.

[Dave_E]

They imaged just fine. Both are attached. As per above, covers and instructions are on the Everygamegoing site.

[Dave_E]

These are the two UEF files as well, for the sake of completeness.

[Dave_E]

I did dig out the Crossword Puzzler cassette. However, there seems to be some issue with it. Unfortunately, although it rewinds and fast forwards, whenever I attempt to play it, it doesn't spool. I have had this issue a few times with other cassettes and often they work with a different tape recorder. Unfortunately this one doesn't work with any of my tape recorders, so it looks like I'll have to either post the original to someone else for him to have a go, or try again some other time when I do have access to a different tape recorder.

[vanekp]

I did dig out the Crossword Puzzler cassette. However, there seems to be some issue with it. Unfortunately, although it rewinds and fast forwards, whenever I attempt to play it, it doesn't spool. I have had this issue a few times with other cassettes and often they work with a different tape recorder. Unfortunately this one doesn't work with any of my tape recorders, so it looks like I'll have to either post the original to someone else for him to have a go, or try again some other time when I do have access to a different tape recorder.

you have checked the pressure pad that that's okay as they sometimes cause issues.

[Dave_E]

Just as an aside, I notice that Haunted House is by Steve Lucas and uses the same engine as Puss In Boots that he sent to A&B Computing at about the same time.