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Miner Willy's Mega-Tree Auctioned For Charity

Posted by simoniker on from the tremendously-toga-free dept.

Thanks to Blue's News for pointing to a Megatree Ltd. press release discussing the charity auctioning of the original development discs for Mega-Tree, the legendary, unfinished Commodore 64/Spectrum title that "was [to be] the third in a trilogy of games following 'Manic Miner' and 'Jet Set Willy'." The currently-in-progress Ebay auction, to benefit Cancer Research UK, has much more info and concept drawings of the game sometimes called Miner Willy Meets The Taxman by co-creator Matthew Smith, also noting that "The Atari hard disk containing more 'Mega-tree' graphics was 'lost' when it accidentally dropped off the back of Matthew's motorbike when he went through the Mersey tunnel."

21 comments

  1. Disk Error - Abort, Retry, Fail ? by DrSkwid · · Score: 2, Interesting


    I hope my disks sat readable for that long.

    I've had floppies corrupt in the time it takes to walk across the room !

    I still have some BBC games on cassette and disk.

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    1. Re:Disk Error - Abort, Retry, Fail ? by Krandor3 · · Score: 1

      Yeah, anybody bidding on them is taking a big risk if they are even going to load. After 20 years of sitting there, the chances of all the discs still working is slim, but you never know - a new of them might still be working.

    2. Re:Disk Error - Abort, Retry, Fail ? by evil-osm · · Score: 1

      Not to mention the funniest part:

      I do not know what the contents of these disks are and cannot guarantee that they contain data from 'Mega-tree'

      Hmmm ya feeling lucky?

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  2. It fell off a bike? by lovebyte · · Score: 1

    According to the police: on Merseyside, many things magically fall off vehicles!

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    I'll do it for cheesy poofs.

    1. Re:It fell off a bike? by skinfitz · · Score: 1

      Ahh but technically in the Mersey tunnel one is under Merseyside...

  3. What the....?, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Was this post written in English? None of it makes any sense!

  4. Things to do today by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Things to do today

    • Listen to Children of Bodom "Hatebreeder" on full volume

    • Fix some shell scripts on my Octane system

    • Eat egg mayonnaise sandwiches

    • Smoke some Lucky Strike cigarettes

    Well, that's me. What is everyone else up to?

    1. Re:Things to do today by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      FDA

  5. Manic Miner by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Get Manic Miner for Java enabled phones here or here. The Vodafone release has all 20 levels, the Orange version just has the first five.

    Oh, and this charitable release from MegaTree appears to be more about self promotion rather than setting free the fabled sequel.

    1. Re:Manic Miner by bigredswitch · · Score: 3, Informative

      And don't forget my own port that runs in a web browser!

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      After about three months of relentless Willy action I reckon I'm now as good as when I was 10.
    2. Re:Manic Miner by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      You wrote that? Damn, you rock. You reduced all of my web-developer friends to slack-jawed amazement and the making of little whimpering noises. You're too good!

      Now, does the WRITETYPER cheat work?

    3. Re:Manic Miner by bigredswitch · · Score: 1

      I wrote that quite a few years ago - it took about three months (it doesn't have the 'typewriter' cheat, BTW, and is not quite finished but is playable to the end). I'm also working on a Jet Set Willy port but that's some way off completion.

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      After about three months of relentless Willy action I reckon I'm now as good as when I was 10.
    4. Re:Manic Miner by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      don't forget the fat cock up your ass either, bitch!

  6. Matthew Smith's website by Chillum · · Score: 1

    For anyone who's interested, Matthew Smith has a website here (although it hasn't been updated in years).

  7. This is so cool by evil-osm · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Talk about giving fans the chance to finish off where the developers left off. This is pretty darn neat, granted the disks still function, as they said, the disks may not even work after 20 years.

    I'd LOVE to see this happen with Ultima 8's lost expansion (The Lost Vale). It would be soo neat if EA released the old code for that expansion since it never got completed, as the community would be far more than willing to complete it. Please EA? huh? huh? :)

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  8. good story... by Chuck+Bucket · · Score: 1

    does anyone remember Miner 2049er? I think it was by Brouderbund - played it on old 1Mhz Apple //e.

    CBDS

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    1. Re:good story... by Chris+Pimlott · · Score: 1

      I'm pretty sure that was Space Miner 2049 (aka SMiner). Fun little game.

    2. Re:good story... by Chuck+Bucket · · Score: 1

      Hmmm...that could have been a followup game, I found a Miner 2049er page of the one I was talking bout. pretty fun as I recall.

      CB

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  9. Hackers by Old+Wolf · · Score: 1
    From the Jet Set Willy article:

    If you always type MERGE "" whenever you load a game for the first time, then you can count yourself amongst that select programming group known as 'hackers'

    I love it!!!!

    Good article though. I got all the objects in the game (many years ago now) but still did not manage to complete it successfully (actually I'm not sure if I did or not: I remember my head being stuck down the toilet though). I dont know what the guy is going on about the Conservatory Roof tho, I never had any trouble getting up there.

  10. Re:Implications by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yo mama ate my shit, then i cum in her shoe and you were born out her ass. homo