Miner Willy's Mega-Tree Auctioned For Charity

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."

Comments

Disk Error - Abort, Retry, Fail ?

[DrSkwid]

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.

Re:Manic Miner

[bigredswitch]

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

This is so cool

[evil-osm]

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? :)