Miner Willy's Mega-Tree Auctioned For Charity 21
Thanks to Blue's News for pointing to a Megatree Ltd. press release discussing the charity auctioning of the original development discs for Mega-Tree, the legendary, unfinished Commodore 64/Spectrum title that "was [to be] the third in a trilogy of games following 'Manic Miner' and 'Jet Set Willy'." The currently-in-progress Ebay auction, to benefit Cancer Research UK, has much more info and concept drawings of the game sometimes called Miner Willy Meets The Taxman by co-creator Matthew Smith, also noting that "The Atari hard disk containing more 'Mega-tree' graphics was 'lost' when it accidentally dropped off the back of Matthew's motorbike when he went through the Mersey tunnel."
Disk Error - Abort, Retry, Fail ? (Score:3, Interesting)
I hope my disks sat readable for that long.
I've had floppies corrupt in the time it takes to walk across the room !
I still have some BBC games [proweb.co.uk] on cassette and disk.
Manic Miner (Score:1, Interesting)
Get Manic Miner for Java enabled phones here [vizzavi.co.uk] or here [orange.co.uk]. The Vodafone release has all 20 levels, the Orange version just has the first five.
Oh, and this charitable release from MegaTree appears to be more about self promotion rather than setting free the fabled sequel.
This is so cool (Score:2, Interesting)
I'd LOVE to see this happen with Ultima 8's lost expansion (The Lost Vale) [shiftedphase.com]. It would be soo neat if EA released the old code for that expansion since it never got completed, as the community would be far more than willing to complete it. Please EA? huh? huh?