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Posted By
Csabo
on 2009-11-02
10:48:57

New Fingers Malone Remake In The Works!

HomeGnome sent us word that he is working on a new Fingers Malone remake for the PC. You can follow the development process here (in Hungarian). From the preview images it looks pretty neat! The current development plans show playable levels by the end of this month.

This brings up an interesting question: does anyone know if the author should ask permission from anyone before releasing this game? If so, should it be the author (Doug Turner, who posted on our forum before), or the company who released the game? Talk it out on the forum!

Posted By
Andras78
on 2009-11-03
01:43:19

Copyright Question (HomeGnome)

Hi,

I've found a section of the United State Government's law about the programs copyrights. See it below the link.
http://www.copyright.gov/

and the programs rights:
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ61.pdf

I'm sure about that is necessary to ask direct from the Author or if that is not reachable, from the Company. It have to trace it back.

Posted By
Lando
on 2009-11-03
02:29:48

Re: Copyright Question (HomeGnome)

Well Mastertronic died years ago, was bought by Virgin Media and then Sega totally banished anything to do with Mastertronic because via Virgin they were selling the Sega Master System.

As a company Mastertronic is no more dead' but in recent times the name has been brought back to life much in the same way as Commodore and Atari - but of course these are not the same companys.

Sure if you can get hold of Doug Turner that would be cool and I'm sure he would be pleased!

We have had some amazing things happen in the past from authors of some of the original C16/Plus4 games. Panzer Duel we have here was sent to us by Julian Jones him self TWICE!! Once to crack a .PRG and later to create a .TAP of his work - he was over the moon to have his code running on his PC. Tomcat from Darron Broad did help us a a lot to bring his games back to life and much more and even gave us a very rare poster map of Mercenary to scan. The XCellor8 page needs some fixes but Patrick Strassen is another dude who helped a lot, Gwnn being a very big surprise - see the page. I can't remember them all but even Udo Gertz was a legend when it came to supporting the cause of brining his works back to life. Also Space Sweep author was unknown to us for 20 odd years but can you believe David Whittaker created it!

Each and everyone has been very kind, very helpful and only too pleased to see there work, even some remakes have been made just the most important thing of all is that we have never asked for any money - it's all free for all to enjoy and remember.

If you can not get hold of him then I would think it would be safe to release a fan made remake but it should be free - no money should be made and all acknowledgment of Doug Turner's work should be given.

If that does not twist your arm then maybe looking at something like http://www.spore.com/ftl could be a good start. It is not the same game we know on C16 aka Spore but it uses the same name of a Mastertronic game.

Posted By
Luca
on 2009-11-03
03:33:19

Re: Copyright Question (HomeGnome)

...and I add Power Ball to the Lando's list too. Oops, yes, we'll fix the pages soon

Apropos, it's time to contact Darron Broad and do something for a redux version of Tomcat, as we'd talked about in the past...

Posted By
Csabo
on 2009-11-03
10:55:22