Psychedelia on Wikipedia

[Marasmusine]

Hello! So I went ahead and wrote a Wikipedia article on Psychedelia.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedeli ... nthesizer) I had the program originally on the ZX Spectrum, so you might notice a bit of bias in the information.
Any expansion or clarification appreciated, bearing in mind WP's policy on verifiability.
In particular, I'd like to know what the current licence agreement on Psychedelia is. It was released commercially, but also appeared on a covertape and is available for download on World of Spectrum.
The articles for Trip-a-Tron, VLM and Neon are a bit sorry-looking so any pointers to reviews/magazine articles/interviews would be appreciated.
TA!

[PVB]

Welcome Marasmusine, to the fluffiest forums on the net!

All of the old (8 or 16 bit) Llamasoft software is now free, as stated my Mr Jeff Minter here:

LLAMASOFT GAMES FOR EMULATOR USE
======================================

These game images may be distributed free of charge to anyone
who wants to use them on emulators.
Please feel free to carry them on emulator sites or whatever.
Llamasoft feels that software old enough to be running on emulators
is not going to be exactly generating a huge amount of
revenue, and as such the images are considered by Llamasoft
to be in the public domain, and there will be *no* legal
hassles if your site carries the images.

Enjoy!

\
(:-) - Y a K 1/12/96

That doesn't cover the recent PC/PocketPC games though, which can still be purchased.

Dunno how aware you are of recent Llamasoft software/games?


There will eventually be a vast Wiki to Llamasoft:

http://llamasoft.wikia.com/wiki/Yakipae ... asoft_Wiki

Which will hopefully expand on the original Llamasoft Archive, started by Mark Rayson many years ago and taken over by me in recent years, before disappearing in a puff of logic due to my domain host fucking me up the arse.

By all means keep going with your wiki stuff, just keep an eye on here for Yakipaedia developments.

Oh, and I made a slight edit to the External Links item.

[skip]

Are we able to start putting stuff up, or does there need to be a structure established for it first?

[PVB]

Are we able to start putting stuff up, or does there need to be a structure established for it first?

Best talk to Spoongod, as he seems to be the one driving this.

http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=74555

Once I get all the old archive stuff onto a memory stick and sent to him, there'll be loads of stuff on there to srto through, upload, etc. and I guess these wiki things can be easily edited, so I can't see any problem in people addiing stuff as and when they can.

[Marasmusine]

Thanks for the welcome and information. The last Llamasoft game I played was Llamatron, many years ago :> Of course, I am also impressed by the visualizer on my Xbox 360. I was also aware of the various Tempest games (although I haven't played them) through the writings of Stuart Campbell, who highly praised Tempest 2000 and Gridrunner++ but loathed Tempest 3000.

[PVB]

Thanks for the welcome and information. The last Llamasoft game I played was Llamatron, many years ago :> Of course, I am also impressed by the visualizer on my Xbox 360. I was also aware of the various Tempest games (although I haven't played them) through the writings of Stuart Campbell, who highly praised Tempest 2000 and Gridrunner++ but loathed Tempest 3000.

Stuart's not that popular around here.

You can play T2K (if you have a decent enough PC) using Dio's Jaguar emulator:

http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=41691

GR++ is still available through the Llamasoft web site, able to run on several platforms:

http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/gridrunner.php

Space Giraffe (PC version):

http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/games/space-giraffe

(the shop to buy SG PC is down at the moment, but should be back up in a week or two)

[Marasmusine]

I can't say I like Campbell very much either, but I think his reviews are quite in-depth.
I have one more question! I know Psychedelia was converted to the Speccy and MSX, amongst others, but what was the platform Jeff originally released it on?

[PVB]

I can't say I like Campbell very much either, but I think his reviews are quite in-depth.
I have one more question! I know Psychedelia was converted to the Speccy and MSX, amongst others, but what was the platform Jeff originally released it on?

I think it was the dear old Vic 20, as the list of systems here suggests that as the earliest one (as the Speccy version was a port of the 'original'):

http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/psychedelia.php

[Barney]

Might want to get a link to the crash page in question:



ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sincl ... 500020.jpg if they allow that sort of link in there.

[skip]

So I go to my old house today (being rented out to a family member) where I still have a couple of rooms full of my shit (hence the family member gets cheap rent ).

I went with the intention of finding all my old primary school photos and reports to display at a school reunion next month. I couldn't find them, so it appears I've misplaced stuff dating back to 1980. Fucking gutted.

Anyway, on the good side, I found a folder with *several hundred pages* of Llamasoft related stuff from the 80s to the early 2000s. Magazine articles, interviews, reviews, ads etc. I originally started to get stuff together in the 90s to put my own online web-based Llamasoft archive together (don't think for a second that PVB and Markie are the geekiest of Llamasofties ) but it never got off the ground due to work or partying taking precedence at the time.

I'll have to get around to scanning these at some point, and if the wiki thing takes off, I'll get them up. Will need to 'borrow' a decent scanner from work for this...

[adam]

would you want to do the whole lot or is it worth checking what others have scanned already?

[PVB]

Here's a list of all the articles, reviews, etc. that were on the old archive (bear in mind that none of the links work, just read the descriptions ):

http://www.medwaypvb.pwp.blueyonder.co. ... kstuff.htm