Re: Enigma Variations II. Domark

1999-07-16 Thread Nick Humphries
From: Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] These YS Articule's , are they online anywhere ?? Yay! Plug time! I'm the webmaster of the Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years, which can be found at: http://www.the-den.clara.net/ys/cover.htm It's has all sorts of things on it, including around 600

Re: Enigma Variations II. Domark

1999-07-15 Thread Aley Keprt
From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just think Defenders is about nothing. Maybe it is old, and it was hadr work to do, but this cannot change the situation. Do you think Manic Miner has brilliant graphics? I think no. And if you say it is very old you are right, but compared with

Re: Enigma Variations II. Domark

1999-07-15 Thread Nick Humphries
From: Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh yea, Prince and Klax are from Domark. What is Domark? Or Tengen? Is it another Enigma-like company which did a few great games in 1990? Domark have been in the Speccy business since about 1984/5, probably most famous for geting the James Bond licence and

Re: Enigma Variations II. Domark

1999-07-15 Thread Andrew Collier
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Aley Keprt wrote: Do you think Manic Miner has brilliant graphics? I think no. And if you say it is very old you are right, but compared with Dan Dare III or Savage it simply looks badly. What has Manic Miner got to do with anything? Andrew, you haven't

Re: Enigma Variations II. Domark

1999-07-15 Thread Nick Humphries
From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Generally, the big companies (like Domark) paid very little attention to the Sam, and it was only when little companies (or individuals) programmed their Sam games for them that anything actually got released. Indeed, and usually only following the Chris

Re: Enigma Variations II. Domark

1999-07-15 Thread Chris White
Indeed, and usually only following the Chris White Method, which is to write the conversion secretly, then get a licence to sell it. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't, in which case the gameplay was tweaked here and there, graphics changed a little, and the end result is sold as a game