Transnitron Lives - and my mind is blown
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 9:05 pm
I was about to reply to the posts on that other forum as I just happened across the copy of Transnitron on there tonight while googling around.
Last time I saw that game was 1985, the copy LCD uploaded there is an unfinished demo version that was sent to Software Projects, they lost the tape(!) and my own backup failed(!) and as far as I knew in 1985 it was gone forever.
What LCD had to say:
https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/ ... ion/25366/
"I think, I got the tape from George Lederer from Hungary, so maybebe someone else will have a working version? It was on the 4th covertape of hungarian spectrum magazine "Spectrum vilag", so there is a big chance, this game will surface again. But until then, it can be added to archive as MIA."
It's a total mystery how this game even still exists, how in hell does a tape software projects lost rock up on a Hungarian magazine cover tape?
This definitely wasn't released by Bug Byte BTW as the credit's with the download suggest... they'd gone belly up before then without paying me for Stay Kool.
Just tried playing it and can't believe what a mess it is lol... funnily enough, the badly sampled voice clips are the only thing that are better than I remember. May have been dicked with and / or corrupted too as there's stuff I don't remember, after 33 years though... god only knows.
I am still stunned... did that old cassette drop into a parallel universe or something? :O
Last time I saw that game was 1985, the copy LCD uploaded there is an unfinished demo version that was sent to Software Projects, they lost the tape(!) and my own backup failed(!) and as far as I knew in 1985 it was gone forever.
What LCD had to say:
https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/ ... ion/25366/
"I think, I got the tape from George Lederer from Hungary, so maybebe someone else will have a working version? It was on the 4th covertape of hungarian spectrum magazine "Spectrum vilag", so there is a big chance, this game will surface again. But until then, it can be added to archive as MIA."
It's a total mystery how this game even still exists, how in hell does a tape software projects lost rock up on a Hungarian magazine cover tape?
This definitely wasn't released by Bug Byte BTW as the credit's with the download suggest... they'd gone belly up before then without paying me for Stay Kool.
Just tried playing it and can't believe what a mess it is lol... funnily enough, the badly sampled voice clips are the only thing that are better than I remember. May have been dicked with and / or corrupted too as there's stuff I don't remember, after 33 years though... god only knows.
I am still stunned... did that old cassette drop into a parallel universe or something? :O