Thanks for the replies!
Syd, I downloaded and played Quarx 9 and it is definitely not that game. It
is possible that the game was renamed... I'll see if I can find other RTC
games and try them out. Maybe its one of those, though I doubt that is the
case. The game review in Pet Pourri (the link in my original email)
describes the games as I remember it, so it was definitely sold to the
greater public. The first level consisted of dodging asteroids and I
remember it being quite hard. Could you possibly show the former RTC
employees you know that game review? Maybe it will jog their memories.
Here is the link again (page 5):
http://www.bobnj.com/cbm/articles/KilobaudMicro/1983_12%20PET-pourri.pdf
Robin, if nothing else pans out, I will definitely consider sending the
disk to someone with more sophisticated data extraction techniques,
although I fear the disk is totally blank... It started going bad in around
87 or 88, so might not be much hope. And it is mostly definitely not that
Jupiter Lander clone, Planet Qwarrks...
Kevin
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Robin Harbron <macbeth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I assume it's not the game "Plantet Qwarrk" found half-way down this
Hungarian C64 site's page:
http://c64hq.hu/games/p/p3.htm
Although the game is about 1983-quality, it's more of a Jupiter Lander
clone than what you're describing about Quarx.
Robin.
On 2015-04-16 4:21 AM, Kevin Casteels wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm fairly new to the mailing list here and this in my first post. I
grew up new Cobourg, Ontario and have always been into C64 stuff, but until
recently I wasn't aware of the TPUG. I wish I had known before... Now I
live in Victoria, BC and meetings are a bit far!
I have a bit of a mystery... I recently began archiving my collection of
floppies to .d64 and there is one disk which I was really hoping to
recover. As a kid it got corrupted and stopped working but I was hoping I
could at least salvage something using Zoomfloppy or my 1541u2. Well its
totally gone... Nothing at all left on the disk. The game in question is
called Planet Quarx by RTC (Richvale Telecommunications). They were based
in Richmond Hill, Ontario so I was hoping that someone on this list might
know something about it. I was able to find a review of the game here:
http://www.bobnj.com/cbm/articles/KilobaudMicro/1983_12%20PET-pourri.pdf
on page 5, top right. Basically its a game where you start out dodging
asteroids on your way to Planet Quarx, and when you finally get there you
fly around on the surface. I've also attached a picture of the disk, in
case it helps. I have been unable to find this game in any of the online
collections of archives and it would be really great if someone has a copy!
Thanks,
Kevin
