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Repton lives on my Nokia N-gage. Now if I could only get Elite and Labyrinth. Looks like I'll have to get Desktop Repton pretty quick. gazza_fp on 23/7/04 1:34AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

Elite might have been a possibility once, but it certainly isn't know after the Palm (or some handheld, anyway) Elite fiasco. For those not in the know that involved someone compiling Elite: TNK (a reverse engineerd and converted to C version of BBC Elite) onto said machine, then trying to release it with a blatantly ridiculous EULA, which, amongst other things, tried to forbid reverse engineering of that code, and even claimed ownership. Don't quote me on that last point, though! David Braben got pretty unhappy and TNK vanished. SimonC on 23/7/04 10:24AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

I have ELite running here on my Treo 600 (Palm 5). The copyright on the initial screen says "(C) 1984 I.Bell & D.Braben, Re-engineered 1999-2001 C.J.Pinder, Palm OS Version (c) 2002 T.Harbaum." And very good fun it is too page3 on 23/7/04 4:14PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

OK, it wasn't that port that caused the problem. It was some handheld that did, although strictly speaking the one you've got isn't legal either, since TNK never had any permission in the first place. It seemed, however, that Ian Bell and David Braben were turning a blind eye to it until that point. A quick glance through the Google archive of alt.fan.elite has reminded me that it was a PocketPC port that caused the trouble. SimonC on 23/7/04 4:52PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

jmb on 23/7/04 5:54PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

I'm not much into the games area, but some of the older games are still quite good, the Scabble game is simple but very good. I remember in the mid to late 1970's, some companies in my home city of Melbourne would actually test applicants on the computer racing car games to test their skills for a job to drive a fork lift! :naughty: It must be nearly time for the "Merlin" project news release? Regards, Steve Sawadee on 26/7/04 9:39PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

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