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Ed Howson of Masabi and Richard Hanson of Superior Software Comments by Gestalt

7 June, 2002

Interview - we talk to the man behind the new hand-held version of Repton, and the man behind the original BBC Micro classic

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skalmanxl
07/06/02 @ 12:35
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he also made his first mods using the groundbreaking level and sprite editors that shipped with the game.

Hey, John's just a regular little haxxor in front of his BBC Micro eh.
Blerk
07/06/02 @ 12:35
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Repton had everything we were looking for

Including a 'cheaper than Boulderdash' licence fee!

Oh, you old cynic, you. ;-)
skalmanxl
07/06/02 @ 12:39
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Ah Boulderdash, I've got a ripoff for the NES called Crystal Caves, the memories...the password system sucked though.
Max Diablos
07/06/02 @ 12:53
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Hey, John's just a regular little haxxor in front of his BBC Micro eh.

In my day we had t' write own editors. None of this fancy pants built-for-you stuff. If t' pocket money wasn't enough, even had t' write own game.

Ay. You buggers got it easy.
pjmaybe
07/06/02 @ 12:55
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Anyone remember that Beeb game that had some little guy running around mazes pulling/pushing a huge brick around, to solve puzzles?

Best game on the beeb was that version of Defender...! I still remember playing that in Computer Club at school rather than pissing around with Basic.

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Tricky
07/06/02 @ 14:02
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Nah - Frak was the best game on the BBC. I'm excluding Elite here because it is a game that stands on its own, seperate from anything else as the number 1 game of all time ;-)
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daveo
07/06/02 @ 14:35
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Frak, Wasn't that written by Orlando Pilchard of Zalaga fame?
Max Diablos
07/06/02 @ 14:41
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Frak was trippy.
daveo
07/06/02 @ 14:46
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Nemesis
07/06/02 @ 14:59
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Frak! superb stuff. If you hacked the loader, there was a section you could run which basically played the Captain Pugwash theme tune - dedicated all the pirates out there. Bless.

Chri$t all this Repton stuff is cool, I hope the GBA version doesn't require you to write down passwords. Had enough trouble keeping track of the codes when I was 13!
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Amajiro
07/06/02 @ 15:57
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...already have some original projects in the pipeline. No pun intended.

I get it. Funny :D
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10/06/02 @ 11:47
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Frak, Wasn't that written by Orlando Pilchard of Zalaga fame?

I never knew Orlando had a surname. You live and learn.

My favourite game at the time was probably something like Zalaga or Exile, but these days when I power the beeb up it's Chuckie Egg that goes in first (sadly not a Superior license).

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