The Oliver Twins

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The Oliver Twins

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We are very pleased to announce that the Oliver Twins have very kindly given Spectrum Computing permission to host their ZX Spectrum back catalogue. You will soon be able to download the following titles from our site:

· Ghost Hunters

· Grand Prix Sim.

· Dizzy

· Pro Ski Simulator

· 3D StarFighter

· Jet Bike Simulator

· Race Against Time

· Pro BMX Sim.

· ISS

· Adv. Pinball Simulator

· Treasure Island Dizzy

· Grand Prix Simulator 2

· Fast Food

· BMX Simulator 2

· Ghost Busters 2

· Champ. Jet Ski Simulator

· Operation Gunship

· Fantasy World Dizzy

· Panic! Dizzy

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Wow, I didn't realise quite how many games they'd done... :shock:
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Good job! I did feel pretty shifty when I was forced to hunt down a .tzx of Ski Simulator on emu/rom sites. I am fairly sure my cassette copy is in my mums loft and I loath ROM sites in general. If you can get past the learning curve Ski Sim is a really great game.

Will Ultimate follow?
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Great news!

So after 20 years of these games being denied, now you can at last download and play Dizzy without worrrying that police will knock on your door ;)

Big thanks and congratulations to Oliver brothers. You are my heroes today, guys!
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Very great news!

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I'm so Eggcited over this...

Ok I'll get me coat...

Seriously this is great news.
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That's really good news for the site and big respect to the twins for giving their permission to host the games here. I'm assuming that some of the titles are ones that they own the rights to rather than ones they actually programmed themselves (e.g. some of the Dizzy spin-offs/later titles etc)?
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Fantastic news. So is this the first time these have been made (legally) available on any site?
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Great news. And now everybody can safely vote for Fantasy World Dizzy in the F category as thanks. :lol:
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Rorthron wrote: Sat Mar 03, 2018 1:08 pm Fantastic news. So is this the first time these have been made (legally) available on any site?
As far as I know, it is.
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richl wrote: Sat Mar 03, 2018 11:58 am I'm assuming that some of the titles are ones that they own the rights to rather than ones they actually programmed themselves (e.g. some of the Dizzy spin-offs/later titles etc)?
I inadvertently added some titles which were not programmed by the Oliver twins. This has now been rectified. Apologies.
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The titles from the Oliver Twins are now available to download.

Thanks [mention]Einar Saukas[/mention] and [mention]R-Tape[/mention] for getting the update ready so quickly!
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After more than three years and I didn't read this thread... what a shame :oops:

These are good news indeed.
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