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Message: 3683
Author: Philip Bee
Date: 05/08/2003
Subject: Re: Miner on the Moon
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, "du_ca_si"
> > I've heard of that! My source says it's by "Duncan McDonald and
the
> > brother", but you call yourself "Duncan Sinclair" - presumably
> > former is wrong?
correct. (You'll see my
>
> Yep - I don't know who "Philip Bee" is, but he's not entirely
> name in the Spectrum FAQ, if you look hard enough.)
Hello Duncan! You told me in an email about 5+ years ago about MotM
and I told Andrew about the game recently (and got you mixed up with
Duncan McDonald). I can't remember who emailed who, but you may
remember me from my "I've Started So I'll Finish" interview site
(currently offline).
> To clarify, it was written by me and a friend, with my brother
helping out on the
> graphics and level design.
Aaah. I must have forgotten about your friend co-writing it.
> It's not the only thing I'd like to rescue from these microdrives
carts. Does anyone
> know how likely it is to get stuff off one of these things after at
least 15 years of non-
> use?
Apparently microdrives are quite robust (someone from WoS managed to
get >95% of the data off them recently).
> Any tips? (Of course, first I need to find a Spectrum and
Microdrive. I wonder if a QL
> could read them...)
I would recommend that you ask on the World of Spectrum forums,
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/index.php (they're a helpful
lot on there) and/or on the newsgroup comps.sys.sinclair.
I'm pretty sure that someone would be willing to extract the data on
your behalf if you were willing to send them your microdrives.
Hope that helps,
Phil
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