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Published: 26th Feb 2004, 14:22:05GMT Source: drobe.co.uk
By Chris Williams |
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| Berty games are back on the block |
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 AcornArcade have announced today that they've been given permission to re-release, for free online, classic RISC OS games developed by Tom "Berty" Cooper. Tom's 3D puzzle adventure game Ixion is the first game to be released from AcornArcade website.
"Ixion was originally released in 1992 by Software 42. The game provides a mix of action, role-playing, and puzzle solving, all with some quite tasty looking 3D graphics. The version available here should run fine on anything from a lowly ARM 2 running RISC OS 2 to the latest StrongARM running RISC OS Select", writes 'Arcade hack Jeffrey Lee.
"Expect a full list of games which have been freed of their commercial status to appear over the next few days."
Having peeked at the games list at the top of this interview, fans of Berty can hopefully look forward to seeing the likes of Wavelength and Hamsters available online, as freeware. Tom's games used to be published by Argo Interactive, who are now Argo Group having spun off their ISP side, Freedom2 (aka Argonet), which was subsequently snapped up by Imparo and who, it turns out, ended up owning Tom's software - deep breath.
AcornArcade, once a jewel the crown of the NoughtPointOne empire, was apparently able to clinch their deal with Imparo after Rich Goodwin, a Freedom2 employee, asked nicely. Good stuff.
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spellinn
26/2/04 5:33PM |
If we can get hold of a copy, we'll see if it runs on the Iyonix under Aemulor Pro 
Cheers,
/Neil/ |
md0u80c9
26/2/04 10:52PM |
Ixion doesn't excite me much. Now - Hamsters, DinoSaw, Cycloids . Need I say more!!!! Oooh - yeah - Gyrinus 2; Tres funky . |
sascott 
27/2/04 1:21AM |
Damn! I wish I had my RiscPC now. I LOVED the Hamsters demo!
Tom Cooper is God! |
rod
27/2/04 7:56AM |
Great news! But does anyone have any news about DarkWood? Bought the full version, but it has never run on RISC OS 4. Any plans to allow it run does anyone know??!! |
jlavallin
27/2/04 2:57PM |
I have downloaded Ixion but it doesn't work on my Mico+IIyama Pro 410.
I suppose there is a fix for this , but where? |
Fylecore
27/2/04 8:53PM |
"Ixion doesn't excite me much. Now - Hamsters, DinoSaw, Cycloids"
In reply to md0u80c9:
Yes, I'd love to see the full version of DinoSaw released. Tarty smart this is! |
aardvark
27/2/04 10:34PM |
In reply to rod:
I think I did get Darkwood running at one point on RO4. |
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