tape inlay instructions wanted.

[Michael Brown]

Hi,

Does anyone have inlays for the following games that they can scan and post here so I can add them to my games discs...

(new list as of September 2014)

Cosmic Fighter - Kansas
Space Pilot - Superior
3D Space Raider - Alligata
Alien Destroyers - Micro Power
Galactic Firebird - Kansas
Neanderthal Man - Alligata
Skyhawk - Pace
April Showers - Bevan
Space Hawks - Computer Concepts
Space Intruders - Interceptor
Sorcery - Pace
Moon Mission - Superior
Moon Buggy - Kansas
Sentinel - PSS
Gnasher - Superior
Pharaoh's Curse - H-soft
Bozo and Beebo - BPsoft
Missile Strike - Superior
Spitfire Flight Sim - Alligata
Gulp - Peaksoft
Megarok - Bug-Byte
Backgammon - CDS
Beeb-Chess - Bug-Byte
and
Zombies - Micro Power.

many thanks
Mick.

[leenew]

Hi Mick,
I can't help but it's nice to see you back

[Michael Brown]

Thanks Lee, it's good to be back, but not for long!

What I really want to do next is something special.
I want to re-post some of my earlier disks with full instructions for the games.
These are the games that have no in-built info and I did type some inlay details in years ago which I have been able to obtain from some of my disks but some are corrupt so they are lost.

I have already started on disk 1.
Done so far are instructions for...
Killer Gorilla,
Snapper,
Swoop,
Monsters,
and Meteors.

Currently restoring Felix in the Factory and Planetoid.

Don't want to re-post disk 1 yet until all games that need doing have been done.
On disk 1 the inlay info for Rocket Raid and Super Invaders are needed so any help with any scans of their instructions would be great (if anyone has them and can scan and post them here) as I sold my copies of the games years back.

Also found my old info for Hopper and Positron and have restored them to disks 2 and 8 and will re-post those disks at some point too.
regards,
Mick.

[leenew]

I believe acornpreservation.org would have been your best starting point but its down. Does anyone have a mirror?
Other than that - surely plenty of people have these common games!

[Pernod]

I have a copy of the ACP archive and only the following are available:

[CMcDougall]

Munchyman by Micro Power

Don't think this has any, I only remember the tape being like this :

maybe the first or second game I played on my cousins electron before I got my beeb 4 months later

may have something on this though :

sorry mate, I ain't got any on your list

[Michael Brown]

Thanks for the images.
I will incorporate the info for Rocket Raid and Super Invaders into loaders and re-post disk 1 with the completed work in a few weeks.

regards,
Mick.

[leenew]

1 down..... 114 to go....

[Michael Brown]

Thanks for the scans.
Disk 001 has now been re-edited and as been re-submitted in the submissions section.

Done some more work on my disk 2 and sorted both Hopper and Felix and the Fruit Monsters, but does anyone have scans for both Starship Command and Carousel that they can post here?

many thanks
Mick.

[Pernod]

Here's Carousel...

Carousel (Acornsoft) (B) (Disc) [cover].jpg (2.94 MiB) Viewed 8952 times

[Pernod]

... and Starship Command.

[Arcadian]

AsteroidStorm.JPG (148.11 KiB) Viewed 8917 times

Munchyman.JPG (147.08 KiB) Viewed 8917 times

[Michael Brown]

again, many thanks for these inlay images.
I will incorporate them into my disks when I get chance over the next few weeks.

ps, the starship command images are not there, can these be re-posted?

thanks,
Mick.

[Pernod]

ps, the starship command images are not there, can these be re-posted?

They're showing for me, still need reposting?

[Michael Brown]

Hi Pernod,
Not checked on my laptop yet, will do later tonight.
Thanks anyway.
Mick.

[Arcadian]

Today I'm accessing the web on an old-ish PC and I've also found that some of the latter images in this thread aren't displaying.

I suspect it's due to memory issues as a result of so many hi-res images being posted (note to self: must check the status of the Acorn Preservation Project mirror with Samwise ...)

[Michael Brown]

Hi Pernod,
The images work on my laptop but not PC.
thanks again and I will take a look at them when I get some time.
regards,
Mick.

[MarcT]

Hi Pernod,
The images work on my laptop but not PC.

A "reload page" (usually F5 as a shortcut) might cure that?

[Michael Brown]

Thanks again for the images.
I have now added Starship Command and Carousel's instructions to my disk 002 which has been posted in the submissions section.

Has anyone got a scan of Tetrapod's inlay?
regards,
Mick.

[Pernod]

Has anyone got a scan of Tetrapod's inlay?
regards,
Mick.

My browser really doesn't like viewing this thread but here goes...

[richardtoohey]

My browser really doesn't like viewing this thread but here goes...

Firefox really grinds on my machine on this page and pops out of existence every now and then ... I think something to do with X and browser image resizing ... sounds like I am not alone ...

[1024MAK]

Aye, this page does load slower and take more time / slow to respond to actions (such as scrolling). This is when using Firefox on a Linux OS.

Best to hurry up and fill the rest of it up with text only

Mark

[richardtoohey]

Getting a bit off-topic but if we get to page 2, then it will go faster!

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=136688883608817&w=2

Talks about fiddling with gfx.xrender.enabled after he got "fed up with the big X freezes with browser-rescaled images" ... tried it on my FF and it just crashed on start-up. But might help one of you others ...

More about it here ...

http://www.hackermusings.com/2012/05/fi ... ce-on-x11/

[leenew]

Hi Richard,
I'll help get us to page 2!
Yep, it kills me too.
Either with IE9 or Chrome, it sends the computer into zombie-unresponsive mode.

[Pernod]

Could an admin change the forum settings General -> Attachment Settings -> Display Images Inline -> No?
This would then allow the poster to set whether images are shown or just a link is provided.

[Michael Brown]

thanks once again for the images.
I will incorporate them into my games when I get chance.

PS has anyone got scans for...

JCB Digger,
B C Bill,
and Cosmic Cruiser.

regards,
Mick.

[Pernod]

JCB Digger...

[Michael Brown]

All done so far...

As anyone got scans for...

BC Bill,
Laser Command
& Mr Ee.

many thanks,
Mick.

[leenew]

This is from an early white label Laser Command.

[Pernod]

I also have the Laser Command sheet as it was one of the first games I bought. Sent Mr Ee! cover to you via email.