Flash Card On Ebay, Is It PAL?

[Willard]

Cortex designs isnt an ass like retro-planet.

Hi,

 

I have no intention of cancelling your bid - in fact I'm not able to do

that

anyway. I will honour my commitment to whoever wins the auction.

 

Under eBay rules I am not allowed to stop the auction, because there

has

already been at least one bid. If no-one had bid, then I could have

stopped

the auction, but not now.

 

Good luck!

(cortex designs, seller of the flash card)

[Thunderbird]

Cortex designs isnt an ass like retro-planet.

Hi,

 

I have no intention of cancelling your bid - in fact I'm not able to do  

that

anyway. I will honour my commitment to whoever wins the auction.

 

Under eBay rules I am not allowed to stop the auction, because there  

has

already been at least one bid. If no-one had bid, then I could have  

stopped

the auction, but not now.

 

Good luck!

(cortex designs, seller of the flash card)

 

Sounds like a real stand-up guy. Penal-Rotter could take lessons from him!

[PeterG]

I wrote him a mail just asking for information and he seems like a really cool guy.

I also asked for permition to put the mails here in this open forum so for anyone who is interested I thought there are some valuable infos in his mails.

 

Hi Peter,

>

> Seems like this card is gathering a lot of interest - I thought I might

get

> 15.00 UKP and it's already up to 41.00 UKP!

>

> As mentioned in the text, LiveWire was an unfinished game and the code

might

> only exist on this card; whether anyone else has retained it, I have no

> idea. You would not have heard of it before because it was never released

as

> a finished product. In actual fact, we were about a month from completion

> when Atari were taken over and the whole thing went belly-up - I was

> literally poised with pen hovering over the contract, ready to sign...

>

> To be honest, I was selling it as a blank Flash cartridge until someone

> asked whether there was anything on there - surprise: LiveWire was still

> running!

>

> The other problem is how to get the code off. I have no interface, lead or

> software to enable this, so the only thing I can suggest is to bid for the

> card!

>

> If you are unsuccessful I will be quite willing to pass your details onto

> the eventual purchaser, though, so perhaps they might have the facility to

> transfer the code off. Naturally, if it's a collector who successfully

wins,

> they might decide to protect their investment...

>

> I can say that "much of the work had been done" (being in software

> publishing, this is normally a euphemism for "it's 50% finished"), but

there

> were three playable levels and the game engine was working very well;

> including collision detection, explosions, sprites and so on - I also

> mention the perspective, as this is one of the major selling points of the

> game - the buildings would move to give a totally realistic impression of

> moving over a landscape - awesome at the time! :-)

>

> However there is no scoring or alternative weapons and I'm not sure if the

> level creation software (to create the level maps) is still around: if it

> is, I might still have it on my old Atari Falcon, or a SyQuest disk!

>

> Best regards,

> David Encill

>

 

 

Hi Peter,

 

Sorry to disappoint you, but the code is strictly copyrighted, so whoever

buys it will NOT be able to just share it unless they have strict

permission! It's the same as if you bought a painting - you can't just go

printing off copies :-)

 

There is a legal issue here, not least the fact that I am only one of the

copyright holders, not the sole one. But we'll see what happens. If the

source code no longer exists and the other copyright holder is in agreement,

I would not have any objection to it being released. Until that time it

cannot be dumped as it could affect the eventual outcome of the full game

being produced _if_ the source code is still available!

 

There is a chance this will happen as there is a publisher who's very

interested.

 

Incidentally, I saw your mention of "Atari cancelling LiveWire". That's not

strictly true - Atari cancelled themselves by getting taken over! We were

literally one day away from signing the contract... :-/

 

I took a look at the forum and noticed the interest that has been generated!

One of the guys on there has contacted me (Gaztee) to take some video

footage and screenshots, so hopefully you will be able to see it soon!

 

Feel free to publish this mail on the forum as you wish.

 

Regards,

David Encill

 

 

 

sounds good, hope the game will make it out to everyone....

Peter

[Gaztee]

Hi Guys,

 

Just to let you know I will see David on Wednesday, so hopefully by wednesday night I will be able to post some screen shots of the game. I can't believe he lives about 5 minutes from me! Anyhoo, will show the results here & will take the footage to Jagfest UK too!

 

l8r

Gaztee