As many of you will be aware, the lost adventure games from Heyley software were recently found, courtesy of Dave Hitchins.
What Dave actually found was the Electron versions of the 5 adventure games originally released a year or two before, on the beeb.
See this thread for further info: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5447
The original BBC versions of these games, running in Mode7 are still lost, apart from STRANDED! which can be found on the STH disc collection disc H1
I was recently looking at these games again, and re-reading the thread, when I noticed a couple of things:
Firstly, Howard Roberts said that the Electron versions were identical to the beeb versions, and secondly, it appeared that the code to print the coloured text in MODE7 on the beeb had been left in the Electron version.
However, simply changing the games to run in MODE7 from MODE6 still did not bring the colours back.
After a bit more digging, I discovered the print routines are contained in a file called MODULE. This file is used across all 5 of the games.
The Electron versions had had some of this code altered because the display was now in MODE6.
Therefore, I took the MODULE file from the existing BBC version of STRANDED! and patched it in to the Electron version.
This appears to have restored the games back to their original BBC look and feel.
The 4 missing games now all look exactly like the existing STRANDED! and are probably as close to the original BBC released code as we will ever get.
Here they are: **EDIT: Updated versions can be found further down the thread, here: http://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewto ... 10#p114741
A few more notes:
I have slightly altered the intro screen (which may or may not have been included with the original BBC releases?) to display the original (C) date, and to remove the mention of PRES, as it definitely would not have mentioned PRES on the beeb releases.
The only other compromise is with STRANDED!
The version we have on disc H1 does not have the original loading screen, and so I have used the Electron one. The trouble is that it mentions the Electron in the scrolling text.
I could have used the Robico one, but I am not sure if the "wavy" text is original or not?
I have a feeling that I sold an original Heyley version of STRANDED! to BillCarr, so he may be able to confirm what the original loading screen should look like...
Also, I have left the file SOLVE1 on all of the discs.
If you start any of the games, and type SOLVE, it will automatically play through the game from beginning to end.
You may want to remove this file

Thanks,
Lee.