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From: kinder@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk (David Kinder)
Subject: Re: magnetic scrolls/level 9
Date: 01 Apr 1996 10:22:49 +0000
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The Ur-Grue (forispaa@black.clarku.edu) wrote:

: Does anyone know any good web pages/sites about/by/with info on
: any of the old Magnetic Scrolls and Level 9 games for amiga?
: Were any of these released for ibm? I recall at the time
: ibm was "not cool" whereas amiga, st, and c64 were "it".
: The excellence of games like Pawn, Guild of Thieves, Fish, 
: Jinxter, Myth, Scapeghost, etc...seems to have been forgotten
: or at least lost someplac...                             

Certainly most (and probably all) the Level 9 and Magnetic Scrolls
games were released for the PC at some time. Unfortunately they
are pretty much impossible to find, except second-hand (try the
comp.*.marketplace groups). Pete Austin did indicate once that he
was looking into ways of releasing the old Level 9 games, but
nothing has come of it yet. The MS games are now owned by
Microprose, who don't have any intention of rereleasing them.
Perhaps if enough people from here wrote pointing out Activision's
success with LToI, they would reconsider?

You can also get some Level 9 games as Spectrum snapshots, and play
them with a Spectrum emulator. You might also be able to get the MS
games going on a C64 emulator that can fully emulate the 1541 disk
drive (i.e. support commands like M-E). I haven't tried it but I
suspect that a modern PC C64 emulator (e.g. C64s) might manage it.
None of the Amiga C64 emulators can cope.

David

