----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Maunder" <dave.maunder@...>
To: <vzemu@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: [vzemu] Scanned...


> Jason Oakley wrote:
>>So... were any real? :)
>
>
> Heh!
> My letter to Grant asking for the titles (dated sometime 1987) had a
> return letter and my cassette back from him stating that as from that
> time, he was only dealing with floppy disks. (or disc as per his word)
>
> If I recall correctly Triffids 2040, Runha, Deflect, Ghost Blasters and
> Escape from NY were all in BASIC, and am pretty sure that I had them on
> a disk that came from somebody, perhaps from J. D'Alton. Its only coming
> back to me now after looking at ad. They could possibly be on a disk in
> the collection that Guy has, though other than transferring them over
> for "completeness", they're pretty ordinary games. Have a feeling that I
> looked at them once, was hugely disappointed in them, and never looked
> at them again. I think that Deflect was something akin to that of the
> listing 'Painter' that was listed in one of the early APC magainzes.
> Dont know much about City Saver and Foreplay.
>
>

And to add to that, I believe some of these titles were originally for the
TRS80 as are some of the other BASIC programs (MORGOTH ??)
Leslie.