After some digging around and very careful tape backing up, Jeff Minter has discovered and released a whole range of unseen Llamasoft games on the Vic 20 platform (and one on the Commodore PET). In maybe a weekend of preservation fever, some of these games may have just been saved in time before Jeffs work tapes decayed for good.
Theres some nice titles discovered here, not on the scale of “Hellgate” or “AMC”, but very nice none-the-less and definately worth checking out
Checkout the things that unfolded : http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?t=58477
The old link for the downloads had sadly died, though Michael (see comments) has dug out some working links here:
8-bit
https://web.archive.org/web/20240224142009/http://www.llamasoftarchive.org/oldsite/llamadloads.htm
16-bit
https://web.archive.org/web/20230128075839/http://www.llamasoftarchive.org/oldsite/llamadloads2.html
Just in case, LiqMatrix has also dug out the files, and here is a download of everything as a precaution too:
Hallo, download links on this Page is not working.
Long lost Jeff Minter games found.
BR
Sorry to hear this daurelio23 – unfortunately this is maintained by someone external to us. I checked the WaybackMachine quickly, but couldn’t access anything sadly. If anyone has these games archived, please get in touch and i’ll be happy to host here.
Hi Frank,
I believe most of those Llamasoft files have working downloads here:
8-bit
https://web.archive.org/web/20240224142009/http://www.llamasoftarchive.org/oldsite/llamadloads.htm
16-bit
https://web.archive.org/web/20230128075839/http://www.llamasoftarchive.org/oldsite/llamadloads2.html
I’m grabbing them now and can share a backup later if you’d still like to host them. Always good to have another source just in case!
That’s awesome, thank you Michael – i’ll add links to the page. LiqMatrix has also sent an archive over so i’ll also host on the page too.
Thanks Michael. My collection of files was just from the 8-bit portion.