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Steve Evans wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2 Sep 2001 15:55:29 -0400, Carl Muckenhoupt <carl@wurb.com>
> wrote:
>
> >In article <3B90AF04.7577A3A0@c2i.net>, jfroholt@c2i.net says...
> >>
> >>
> >> Adam Atkinson wrote:
> >>
> >> > though I may have missed one or two. The Phoenix versions of Hezarin,
> >> > Quondam and Xerb have been lost, as far as we know. The Topologika
> >> > and/or Acornsoft versions of Hezarin and Quondam are either in the
> >> > ifarchive or findable somewhere.
> >
> >FWIW, the Topologika MS-DOS version of Hezarin is at the Archive, but
> >Quondam is not, unless it's under a different title.
>
> Quondam was released by Acornsoft (for the BBC). Unlike some other
> Phoenix --> Acornsoft titles it was not rereleased by Topologika.
>
> Unfortunately, from what Adam says, it sounds as though the BBC
> version is the only extant form for Quondam. And I understand that the
> BBC version was recoded from scratch, so translation to z-code may be
> difficult.
>
> But it would be great to see the rest of these games ported across to
> z-code (in due course).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steve

Being the guy who did the Quondam recoding from scratch for the BBC,
I can confirm that either I *might* have a copy of the original
Phoenix code on an old 5.25" floppy up in the attic (the source of the
code when I recoded my onw three Doom games to Inform), but it's
infinitely
more likely it was on lineprinter paper...

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