Superior Software Discusses Exile, Repton

Thanks to TotalGames.net for its feature exploring the history of '80s-era UK game developer Superior Software, noting that the Europe-centric "BBC Micro and Acorn Electron were often overlooked by many of the larger software publishers", but Superior, "responsible for hits such as Citadel, Exile and, of course, Repton", is still worth remembering. An interview with Richard Hansom of the still-in-existence Superior Interactive discusses new versions of the Boulderdash-like (although devised independently) Repton, and also notes that an update of the seminal Exile is a "possibility for the future". We've previously mentioned chess players' Repton addiction on Slashdot Games.

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Repton 3

[tedDancin]

No remake could ever beat Repton 3. Check out BeebGames for more games, including a large collection of Superior Software games (scroll down on the left-hand nav), as well as AcronSoft and a whole heap of smaller companies games that didn't take off. Oh, and don't forget the emulators. (:

*sigh*.. they don't make 'em like they used to.

Re:I remember Exile (and Repton...)

[ripnet]

Forgot to say, the protection used self modification techniques to unencrypt the next part of the code, and IIRC the unencryption routine over-shot what you would expect by 3 bytes, and modified the JMP instruction to the start of the next bit of code, to point to somewhere with real code. Before it was a valid JMP instruction to a piece of dummy code. A lot like the XBox!