R-Type

[Gryzor]

How about October the 19th? It's my wife's birthday!!*


*well, she won't give a damn probably, but you never know...

[TotO]

I think she will prefert a ring.

[Capper]

The completed Spectrum version - including the source code - was handed over on September 16th 1988 (Activision didn't quite get it that day but that's another story). This was the first day of the PCW show at Earls Court in London and Activision had press releases stating that the release date for this, and for the original Amstrad CPC version, would be November 1988. Keith received the source code the following week and started work immediately on the conversion (after a phone call or two) which means that, allowing for the 21 days it took to complete the conversion, the original CPC version was finished mid October. If you can release the new version in the next two or three weeks then that will be about as close as you can get to it being exactly 23 years since the original was completed.

No pressure 

[TotO]

Thank you for this nice anecdote.
We are doing the best and we hope you, Keith and Mark will be happy to see our version.
And, perhaps a day, we will know the "others stories" answers?

(Now listening: Queen / Under P...)

[fano]

hehe nice !

(MacDeath if you read this post  )

[Gryzor]

Thanks for this great insight! I went ahead and added it to the R-Type article...

[fano]

Good idea , maybe you should mention capper is Bob Pape 

[Gryzor]

Good idea , maybe you should mention capper is Bob Pape 

Thanks for that, done it

[TotO]

boingboing.net speak about 8-bit remake fix, with R-Type CPC as exemple.
http://boingboing.net/2011/10/20/8-bit-remakes-fix-the-past.html

[MacDeath]

yeah, this was a fun article and a good advertisement for the CPCwiki....

[fano]

Shame they didn't used our R9 ship and plasma    (note Carnivac's are good anyway and our R9 looks more like R9 Custom than R9 Arrowhead  )

[MacDeath]

and our R9 looks more like R9 Custom than R9 Arrowhead

what a purist asperger otaku... that's so creepy...

[fano]

me too i love you (all) 

More seriously , we are still late but the game itself (excluding intro/ending/extra stuff) is close to be finished and will enter soon in its beta testing phase 

[tastefulmrship]

More seriously , we are still late but the game itself (excluding intro/ending/extra stuff) is close to be finished and will enter soon in its beta testing phase 

Is there any chance you could release the one level demo (that Xyphoe played in his video) as a 'teaser' to get us all worked up for the main release?

^_^ Puhleeze! ^_^

[TotO]

Our precious time is used to finish the game.
Understand that we don't have it for making a descent demo.
But... Thank you to asking that. It's show your interest for this game.

[tastefulmrship]

Understand that we don't have it for making a descent demo.

That's no problem. I thought it might have been lying around somewhere and was easy to release.


Good things come to those who wait.
- Guinness advert, yesterday.

[TotO]

The demo used by Xyphoe was old and unfinished on many points. May crash, ...
He got it with specifics instructions to do. (He saw levels 2 and 4 too  )
So, it's not a good think to give you this poor "alpha" version.

[TFM]

Our precious time is used to finish the game.
Understand that we don't have it for making a descent demo.
But... Thank you to asking that. It's show your interest for this game.

Toto, what do you think? Releaese 2011 or 2012?

[TotO]

2011 !

[TFM]

2011 !

THX! Best wishes guys!!! (I know, spare time a REAL problem)

[fano]

Toto, what do you think? Releaese 2011 or 2012?

2011 (if not that will be 2012)

[TFM]

  2011 (if not that will be 2012)

Well, you know 2012 the world will end ;-)

[TotO]

It's the end of the world if it's not finished before...

[TFM]

It's the end of the world if it's not finished before...

Pour les CPCistes at least ;-)

[MacDeath]

So just like rick Dangerous 128... for Xmas...

Kids will have a sweet Amstrad CPC night under the shadow of the Xmas tree with a brand new release....

I feel like when I got this compilation with Barbarian, Renegade and so on...