Re: Battlecrab

From: "Greg McDougall" <not-DOUGALL-for-mail@BIGFOOT.COM>

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000

"Carol Mulholland" <Carol@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:VA.00001e02.007f14fa@superk...
> Rob Harper wrote:
>
> > Battlecrab was removed from Galactic View in Flagship way
> > back in 1992, but I believe it carried on in Germany for a
> > while being run by Dag Weber.
>
> I think the details you give are correct, Rob. An ex-player asked
> me about Battlecrab a year or so ago, hoping to revive and run it.
> I gave him what info I had about who'd run it and he wrote around,
> but he couldn't find anyone who'd reply to his queries, either
> here or in Germany.
>
> Going back to when the game was operating, I think I remember that
> it did have bugs, so maybe this discouraged earlier licensees? In
> my experience, games that have bugs that are visible to players
> often have bugs for the operators, too.
>
> Carol
>

Yes Carol, and thanks for all the help you gave me. I did indeed write
to Dag Weber, who ran/runs "Dag Weber Briefspiele" in August 1998
offering to revive an English-language version of Battlecrab. I haven't
received any reply to date, and all attempts to contact the original
team behind Project Basilisk have come to nought.

It did have potential, and the quality of the supporting materials
(which I still have) were excellent. Alas, it did need some very real
programming work doing on it.

I continue to keep my eyes open.

Greg

P.S. I don't even want to think how many years ago this all began! Does
anyone recall any of the following:

Chronicles of the Knights of Avalon (Jade Games)
Ether (Tingols Games)

As I never throw anything away I have all the materials for these - some
of the letters date back ten or more years!

References

Re: Battlecrabs
tim@leaphome.pelican.org (Tim Franklin)
Thu, 24 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Battlecrabs
"Rob Harper" <stateofmind@breathemail.net>
Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Battlecrabs
Carol Mulholland <Carol@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk>
Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Battlecrabs
"H. Barker" <hb239@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Thu, 24 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000