Mike Singleton

Greetings, All! Folks, does anyone know what the sabzhe man is doing now? Xia is the author of such masterpieces as Dark Scepetre, War in the Middle Earth, Lords of Midnight, Doomdark Revenge and so on anyone else? Is there any way to contact him via email? and write to him? In some issue "500 games for ZX-SPECTRUM" in the description of Doomdark Revenge it is written that the authors intended also the third, final part of the trilogy, the beginning of which was This is true for the games Lords of Midnight and Doomdark Revenge. to me I wonder if Singleton released it or not? He should talk about write this. Or maybe someone here already has it? Throw it then plz And also, people, someone throw a thread completely diskette ver- this Doomdark Revenge (I think it's in the ZX-ELE-magazine appendix) There was MENT N2, but I don’t have it), or, if suddenly all there is a full disc version of War in the Middle Earth. If you're interested, I have the full disc Lords of Mid- night and Dark Scepetre. Sincere via, Alexey Antipov aka Marillio

Greetings, Dmitry! Somehow Ahura Mazda appeared to me and showed me a vision that Sun Apr 18, 1999 at 07:35:12 PM Dmitry Grigoryev wrote to Alexey Antipov about "Mike Singleton". Lord ordered me to intervene. DG> The site is 100% there - I looked at it a couple of years ago. Address DG> probably too. Please look on the Internet. DG> It seems there was a third... Although I’m not particularly text-based DG> I get carried away... Although there are descriptions of events in the form of text, but everything These are graphic games with a special interface. And the genre It’s hard to define - it’s a mixture of strategy, RPG, and adventure. But all together gave complete rulez, and a vivid example of the implementation of pain the greatest possibilities of the Spectrum - in Lords of Midnqght, for example, 3904 possible situations were implemented with 31232 different screens - mi, and all this fit into 48Kb of RAM (although full disked ver- I had to do this for 128Kb). So what is the name of the third part and where can I get it? AA>> does exist, fully disc-based War in the Middle AA>>Earth. DG> There is no such thing. If only someone would diskette all the old masterpieces instead to rivet useless acid demos. AA>> I have a full disk Lords AA>> of AA>> Mid- AA>> night and Dark Scepetre. DG> Moscow releases - Max and Rom? :) No, Lords of Midnight - by Hacker Stinger (that was a decent one man - I've collected so many worthy programs, take them example. I would take it myself, but there are not enough steps in the codes for this - ryu). And in Dark Sceptre there are no copyrights at all except the author's skikh, not worth it. Sincere via, Alexey Antipov aka Marillio

Hello, Alexey! Thursday 22 April 1999 22:37, Alexey Antipov (500:95/468.3) wrote to Dmitry Grigoryev: DG>> The site is 100% there - I looked at it a couple of years ago. Address DG>> probably too. AA> Please look on the internet. Ugh. AA> What is the name of the third part and where can I get it? I'll take a look and write :) AA>>> does exist, fully disc-based War in the Middle AA>>>Earth. DG>> There is no such thing. AA> If only someone had dissected all the old masterpieces instead AA> to rivet useless acid demos. I think so too, but, unfortunately, hackers are not in fashion now - everyone wants to be demomakers :( And as for WitM, as far as I know (years like this before 1997 ;) - not The full original version of the game has been found, there are so many of them, actually... DG>> Moscow releases - Max and Rom? :) AA> No, Lords of Midnight - by Hacker Stinger (that was worthy AA> man - I've discarded so many worthy programs, take them AA> example. I would take it myself, but the codes don’t have enough sha for this - Come on, there weren’t enough releasers in Moscow, or what? ;) Anyway,there were more _restorators_ than everywhere else put together - Titys, Rom/SBHG, Max/FFC, KSA... I can’t remember them all... Stinger, by the way, worked rather carelessly - I remade several things after it. LoM is also full of glitches, isn't it? AA> pyu). And in Dark Sceptre there are no copyrights at all except the author's - AA> skikh, not worth it. Is the game completely recovered and restored? Then Rom/SBHG did it for SPF (as I remember now, I paid him fifty dollars ;) AA> Sincere via, Alexey Antipov aka Marillion Best regards, Dmitry (OLDMAN). 2:5020/689.31@FidoNet oldman@i-connect.ru [ZX]

Greetings, Dmitry! Somehow Ahura Mazda appeared to me and showed me a vision that Mon Apr 26, 1999 at 08:30:44 Dmitry Grigoryev wrote to Alexey Antipov about "Mike Singleton". Lord ordered me to intervene. DG> I think so too, but, unfortunately, hackers are not in fashion now DG> - everyone wants to be demomakers :( And the music in these demos is almost always moronic - in the style of "an ant jerks off to hemp." DG> Come on, there weren’t enough releasers in Moscow, or what? ;) Why did they all run away so early - there is still work in this niche complete. DG> Stinger, by the way, worked rather carelessly - I DG> there are several after it DG> remade things. LoM is also full of glitches? Well, to be honest, there is still one small glitch - if I have a computer the printer is connected, even if it is not connected to the network, then with the onset of the game nights, when the question “Do you want dawn?” should appear. by black and white stripes began to run along the curb, then the computer loaded something onto the tape, after which it froze. When the printer is not connected, everything works fine. In the game there is a mode for printing the current screen on the printer, accordingly, it impossible to use. But in principle, it’s not really necessary (and if it’s reallyif you want, you can throw it off with Magic, then rip out the picture and print it out), yes Besides, the printer driver in the game, in my opinion, is kind of lame, obviously not for Epson (maybe for ZX/Alfacom?), so you still won’t use it. At the Pentagon, the above glitch always appeared, regardless of the presence or lack of a connected printer, but on GRM and In Scorpa everything works, because... They are still more “standard” Spectrums. On The Pentagon version of LoM for 48K from the Island company also glitched at nightfall, but everything was just reset there. But in general, Stinger did it quite competently - as in his other releases, when you issue a command to upload to disk, a beautiful menu appears where you can write the file to disk with arbitrarily specified name, and you can also write the state to RAMDISK in any of the four memory banks. And in his Neverending Story and Dragons of flame, I didn’t notice any glitches at all. Sincere via, Alexey Antipov aka Marillio

Greetings, Arseniy! Somehow Ahura Mazda appeared to me and showed me a vision that Fri Apr 30, 1999 at 04:28:34 PM Arseniy Astapenko wrote to Alexey Antipov about "Mike Singleton". Lord ordered me to intervene. AA>> And the music in these demos is almost always moronic - in style AA>> "An ant jerks off on a stump." AA> It's funny what specific demos made you feel like this AA> associations? ;) To me they are almost all the same. And I don’t collect them - I only have them lying around about two or three, but I’ll look at it a couple of times and make sure there’s nothing They won’t show me anything new there during the next viewing, and then I erase it. AA>> Why did they all run away so early - work in this niche AA>> more AA>> complete. AA> Not so complete. Now on the Internet even if you get out, new AA> you can’t pump it up, and the branded cassettes have long since run out... Naturally, you can’t pump up a new one, if sometimes they write something, then now that’s all they make it for a disk, but unfinished junk is through the roof - 70 percent of all adventures undiscovered, and probably 30 percent strategy. And branded cassettes are not needed - people have a lot of pirated tapes lying around, and there are a lot of defects on the discswalks. For example, I have something similar: CHURCH HULK VALHALLA SEX MACHINE LORD OF THE RINGS 1&2 CASTLE OF DREAMS GOLDEN APPLE SPIDERMAN MAGNETIC MOON WAR IN THE MIDDLE EARTH ADVENTURELAND ROBIN OF SHERLOCK 1,2,3 BORED OF THE RINGS (on top of that, it's glitchy) I.D. HUMAN TORCH AND THING MUGSY SEE-KAA HAMPSTEAD STARSHIP QUEST 1,2,3 (and then in general each subsequent part with from the very beginning requires a tape recorder Ruzki from the previous one) SEAS OF BLOOD ARNHEM Is this not enough for a start? This is just what I have. AA>> The game has a mode for printing the current screen on AA>> printer, so it is impossible to use it. AA> Was this in the proprietary version? Uh-huh. The "Z" button, as far as I remember. Sincere via, Alexey Antipov aka Marillio

Hello, Alexey! Saturday 08 May 1999 16:37, Alexey Antipov (500:95/468.3) wrote to Dmitry Grigoryev: AA> Hy, how much then? And where is it all, diskette? As I say, everything gets lost in private collections and is thrown away sooner or later. This is why we need all kinds of online databases, so as not to lose everything we’ve done... DG>> This is all there. AA> What does it mean to eat? Do you have anything? And all this and what is below I have nothing now. My entire collection is from Sergei Novikov. Now he is her By the way, it sells 300 discs (hmm, I think I gave more...) for 50 rubles. AA> marked "Yes", everything is full disked?! Not everything is full ;) AA>>>MUGSY DG>> Yes, like the second part. AA> Full disked? Maybe, in addition, in Russian? Not in Russian, like full. Are there any shipments there? DG>> The problem is the following - similar DG>> rarely discs competently - with intro, restoring. AA> I don’t fucking need the intro, as long as it uploads the state to disk, and AA> accordingly, then loaded correctly. So who will do all this for you for free, and without any inside? Introshka He doesn’t need it, you understand... the work of hackers also needs to be respected. AA> Yes, regarding correctness, I remembered here, I really wanted to AA> so that I have a complete disc version of Lord of the Rings, two parts. AA> Letaev advised me to contact the well-known many AA> "super coder", as he described him to me, Konstantin from the group AA> FFC. You probably know, this is the one that spends six months repairing the technician And in FFC everyone is slow ;) The guys worked before - I understand that... AA> and until you come to him yourself and stand over your soul, he and AA> won't itch - :). Well, I gave him the program, then about once AA> I've been calling back for a month, but he still doesn't have time, he hasn't started yet. Give me money, and not to a hardware guy, but to a hacker - he’ll do it in a couple of days, there’s a way verified ;) AA> how he began to dissect her. It still isn’t in the country AA> full disc version of "The Lord of the Rings". And no one cares about him. Hackers don't like text games ;) A hacker is a gambling person, with everyone resulting arcades and action ;) AA> Sincere via, Alexey Antipov aka Marillion Best regards, Dmitry (OLDMAN). 2:5020/689.31@FidoNet oldman@i-connect.ru [ZX]