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Shadowfire question

VampyreVampyre
edited August 2007 in Games
I must admit to not liking this game that much as I thought the icon control system was too confusing. Enigma Force I enjoyed though and is one of the few Speccy games I've completed.

Anyway, my question is in regards to whether this was a conversion or an original speccy game. I've been reading Matt Fox's excellent, The Video Games Guide recently and he lists Shadowfire as a commode game and states in his last paragraph: "Shadowfire was converted to the ZX Spectrum......"

Is that correct? I always thought it was a Speccy game first and foremost.
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ZXSR - Speccy Mags Reviews

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  • The StargliderThe Starglider
    edited August 2007
    It's not really correct. Denton Designs did it for both platforms at around the same time. The Commode version possibly appeared first though.
  • Ian HamiltonIan Hamilton
    edited August 2007
    The Starglider wrote: »
    It's not really correct. Denton Designs did it for both platforms at around the same time. The Commode version possibly appeared first though.
    That must have been a really impressive bit of temporal manipulation, since both version appear on the one cassette - Speccy on side A and Co***de on side B. :p

    Necros.
  • VampyreVampyre
    edited August 2007
    Necros wrote: »
    That must have been a really impressive bit of temporal manipulation, since both version appear on the one cassette - Speccy on side A and Co***de on side B. :p

    Necros.

    Ah! That explains it then. That's another thread that needs to be started then, how many of those were there? The only one I can think of is Starglider 2 where the ST and Amiga versions were on the same disk.
    ZXSR - Speccy Mags Reviews
  • Ian HamiltonIan Hamilton
    edited August 2007
    Several Ricochet re-releases included both Speccy and CPC versions of the game on the one tape. I have a couple of them here - The Growing Pains Of Adrian Mole, Dan Dare and a few others.

    Necros.
  • The StargliderThe Starglider
    edited August 2007
    Necros wrote: »
    That must have been a really impressive bit of temporal manipulation, since both version appear on the one cassette - Speccy on side A and Co***de on side B. :p

    Necros.

    You see, this is what happens when you play games via emulation these days! It's been soo many years since I actually loaded up Shadowfire for real that I completely forgot about that! :p
  • MartinUKMartinUK
    edited August 2007
    US Gold put some late Spectrum/Amstrad games on the same tape. In the US a lot of C64 games were on the same disk as either PC or Atari 8-bit versions.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited August 2007
    Good old "Flippies" fancy a game of Camelot Warriors or maybe Sweevos World :D
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