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E.U.G. - NEWS FROM THE ELECTRON USER GROUP
First published in Electron User Group #50
Bradforth v Emulation [2000]
============================
ON 1st February this year, David Bradforth, proprietor of the berated
ProAction (See EUG #48) sent the following letter to the Retro BBC site
(http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/7202/index.html), which
contained downloadable BBC games, playable with an emulator on a PC:
"With regret I must inform you that the inclusion of the BBC/Electron
titles from Superior/Acornsoft on your web site cannot continue. The in-
clusion of these titles is not beneficial to the gaming market [This is
a rebuttal of the Mission Statement on the site - Ed]; far from it -
there are plans afoot to resurrect all of the titles in a suitable
format for emulation users.
"We're quite happy to supply versions of these games suitable for
emulation but cannot allow them to be freely available on the internet;
that is infringing the copyright of Superior Software/Superior Micro-
computing.
"I would therefore emplore you to please remove the titles. I have
passed your details to the Managing Director of Superior Software: he
may contact you separately shortly."
Richard Judd, or Detrovix as he calls himself, complied with the re-
quest posting the letter, and a message that the site would now probably
disappear, at once. But he contended eloquenly that ProAction could
'kiss ass' if they thought games such as MUTANT SPIDERS and ELITE needed
to be withdrawn. Both have their own web sites, run by their original
authors, where they can be downloaded.
Just a few days later, The Stairway To Hell web site, run by Dave
Moore at http://www.bbc.firewire.co.uk/, responded to the howls of pro-
test from emulation fans by providing all of the removed titles on its
own web page.
These events have opened up a complicated debate on whether the
copyrights on all of Superior's titles are enforceable, what in fact the
relationship IS between ProAction and Superior and what David Bradforth,
who doesn't rate highly in 8 bit-related circles, achieves by forcing
the withdrawal of such antiquated games.
EUG is monitoring the situation and we hope to present Superior's
response to these issues in EUG #51. In the meantime, note that Retro
BBC has reverted to including the emulated games again. Let's see if,
to ProAction, "This means war!"
Adventuring Over And Over Again
===============================
WHAT do the following have in common? ACHETON, AVON, COUNTDOWN TO DOOM,
HEZARIN, KINGDOM OF HAMIL, LAST DAYS OF DOOM, MURDAC, PHILOSOPHER'S
QUEST, RETURN TO DOOM and, um, SPY SNATCHER. Well, first, they're ten
adventures that only run on a BBC, or Electron with an Advanced Plus 4,
giving you some idea as to their quality and second, they're all disks
from TOPOLOGIKA SOFTWARE which, almost incredibly, still supplies them.
As reported in this column before, Peter Killworth, the author of
the DOOM trilogy and PHILOSOPHER'S QUEST, has placed these four disks in
the Public Domain. The others, written by master coders such as Dr.
Jonathan Partington and Jon Thackray, remain copyright but all are
available in new plastic wallets with original inlays and packaging.
Remember the hesitation before the last title? Well, SPY SNATCHER is
a game that, although completed, was released so late into the BBC and
Electron's life (1993) that it could possibly be the last professional
adventure ever released. So rare is this title that the only admitted
owner is our editor!
Contact details for TOPOLOGIKA appear in the updated EUG CONTACTS
file on this disk.
(Note that TOPOLOGIKA no longer have the facilities for duplicating
Electron disks. You can purchase the packaging and right to ownership
from TOPOLOGIKA but will need to write to EUG for the disk itself!)
One Up, One Down
================
MARTYN Sherwood, the editor behind 6502z80 Magazine of which issue #0
was reviewed in EUG #45, has recently announced that there will be no
further issues due to a lack of interest.
Unrelated to this, a new web site has sprang up in cyberspace named
'Only The Best BBC Games'. It contains a few nice screenshots and
scanned software covers not seen elsewhere and can be visited at
http://cyclone.csufresno.edu/drbeeb/index.html
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=====================================
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or write to Viking Direct, Bursom Industrial Park, Tollwell Road,
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Let's see if,| 00000960 0d 74 6f 20 50 72 6f 41 63 74 69 6f 6e 2c 20 22 |.to ProAction, "| 00000970 54 68 69 73 20 6d 65 61 6e 73 20 77 61 72 21 22 |This means war!"| 00000980 0d 0d 41 64 76 65 6e 74 75 72 69 6e 67 20 4f 76 |..Adventuring Ov| 00000990 65 72 20 41 6e 64 20 4f 76 65 72 20 41 67 61 69 |er And Over Agai| 000009a0 6e 0d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d |n.==============| 000009b0 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d |================| 000009c0 3d 0d 57 48 41 54 20 64 6f 20 74 68 65 20 66 6f |=.WHAT do the fo| 000009d0 6c 6c 6f 77 69 6e 67 20 68 61 76 65 20 69 6e 20 |llowing have in | 000009e0 63 6f 6d 6d 6f 6e 3f 20 41 43 48 45 54 4f 4e 2c |common? ACHETON,| 000009f0 20 41 56 4f 4e 2c 20 43 4f 55 4e 54 44 4f 57 4e | AVON, COUNTDOWN| 00000a00 20 54 4f 20 44 4f 4f 4d 2c 0d 48 45 5a 41 52 49 | TO DOOM,.HEZARI| 00000a10 4e 2c 20 4b 49 4e 47 44 4f 4d 20 4f 46 20 48 41 |N, KINGDOM OF HA| 00000a20 4d 49 4c 2c 20 4c 41 53 54 20 44 41 59 53 20 4f |MIL, LAST DAYS O| 00000a30 46 20 44 4f 4f 4d 2c 20 4d 55 52 44 41 43 2c 20 |F DOOM, MURDAC, | 00000a40 50 48 49 4c 4f 53 4f 50 48 45 52 27 53 0d 51 55 |PHILOSOPHER'S.QU| 00000a50 45 53 54 2c 20 52 45 54 55 52 4e 20 54 4f 20 44 |EST, RETURN TO D| 00000a60 4f 4f 4d 20 61 6e 64 2c 20 75 6d 2c 20 53 50 59 |OOM and, um, SPY| 00000a70 20 53 4e 41 54 43 48 45 52 2e 20 57 65 6c 6c 2c | SNATCHER. 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