AmigaAze schrieb am 13.08.2017, 02:41:
Mit bissl Trainer-Hilfe komplett durchgezockt.
Meine Fresse da konnte aber jemand mit dem Brotkasten umgehen.
Hatte übrigens keine Abstürze. Spiel lief sauber durch.

Retro-Nerd schrieb am 19.10.2017, 22:44:
Turrican 3 sollte ursprünglich mal von Protovision (keine offizielle Umsetzung der Amiga Fassung) erscheinen, hatte dann aber nicht geklappt. Angeblich weil auf einer Demoparty die Spieldemo Diskette gestohlen wurde. Aber da hing natürlich noch mehr dran, das letztlich von Smash Designs ein anderes Turrican III erschienen ist (Factor 5 drohte wohl mit einer Klage).

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Official statement about "Turrican 3 C64" (inofficial working title)

by Ted/Classical Games, author of the project

In 1997, a project was started: An inofficial sequel to the famous "Turrican I & II" on the Commodore 64. Grahpics by Big User, musics by The Blue Ninja and coding by Ted/Classical Games (me).

When The Blue Ninja put some screenshots of this project onto his homepage and mentioned the inofficial working title "Turrican 3" there, he soon received a mail from Julian Eggebrecht, producer of Factor 5. In it our team was warned of using the name "Turrican", which is copyrighted to Softgold, and was urged to change the design of the player sprite, as it looked too similar to theirs used in Turrican II on the Amiga.

To avoid endangering the whole project, The Blue Ninja immediately removed the screenshots and the mentioning of the working title. A letter to Manfred Trenz was written to ask about using the brand "Turrican" for this project. Before any answer could arrive, something happened:

A friend of us, known as MacGyver/DMAgic, took a version of the first level to the "Willow Party 1998" to show it to the party attenders. People were amazed and some asked whether it is allowed to copy this alpha version of level 1. Any copying was of course denied, because the first level was incomplete and an official preview was planned when the level was 100% finished, the copyright question was solved and an official title was found.

Everybody seemed to accept that. But Sunday evening after the party, suddenly a "Turrican 3 Preview" by "Laxity" showed up on the net. In the Laxity-intro, "Animalo" and "Goat" of Laxity got credited for "supplying" this "preview". Animalo and Goat were also present at the partyplace and seem to have lurked until they could access MacGyver's disks to steal the one with the game and copy it without MacGyver's permission.

When Floyd/Tempest (organizer of the party) spotted the two having copied it, they lied that they managed to convince MacGyver of allowing them to copy it.

Next to the usual crime of intentionally releasing a program without the author's permission, not respecting the will of the creator, fooling someone who tries to do something really great on and for the C64, this acting also endangers us because the unsolved copyright problem, Factor 5 can take legal action against us because of the name "Turrican 3" and the player sprite problem mentioned above. Obviously the offenders don't care about anything of this.

Under this circumstances we are not ready to continue development, the project with the unofficial workname "Turrican 3" is cancelled until further notice.

As long as such people are not kicked out of the C64-scene, "Turrican 3" or other games for the C64 by us will not be realized.

Signed,

Ted/Classical Games

Retro-Nerd schrieb am 19.10.2017, 22:44:
Angeblich weil auf einer Demoparty die Spieldemo Diskette gestohlen wurde.