mirrorbird(21:49:02)
apparently they made about 50 copies, sold about three, and slashed the price, arf
mirrorbird(21:48:35)
game cost 50 markka the ZX database has lots of currencies but it's not possible to enter "markka". a shortcoming!
mirrorbird(21:46:19)
i'll send you a link to the page of writing (not a lot) & my attempt at transcribing, you can see if you spot any errors. if you don't have time, no worries. i haven't really tried to translate it yet, i have to type in .fi anyway (where is the ÄNY key?)
franz_opa(21:45:19)
i don't know how much time it takes
mirrorbird(21:43:17)
it was done in The Quill adventure maker, so no programming involved i guess. the author wrote down a solution, but his handwriting is awful, and my finnish is worse, so i'll try to record a solution but it may be impossible (HEY, wanna help me?)
mirrorbird(21:42:03)
franz: this game is called Kulta...something (Gold Rush), it was reviewed in Mikrobitti
mirrorbird(21:41:51)
anyway most UK guys with any money had upgraded to an Amiga or something by that time.
franz_opa(21:41:32)
Speccy programs were pretty well represented in Finnish magazines in the mid-1980s but seemed to vanish earlier than MSX and Amstrad, not to mention C64
mirrorbird(21:37:30)
the best work of Extacy-3 was probably actually their diskzine