Sneak PEEK: The Worms Amigas!
Added 2019-06-19 18:17:09 +0000 UTCDear Supporters of a certain tier,
Well I've been having a ball churning out videos for you every week, however this week I'm playing catch up with several things and working on the biggie: "I've Got Worms!" That means there likely won't be a main video this week, but I did want to give you the above exclusive insider preview!
What you see there is the entire Team 17 treasure trove that was donated to us by one of Team 17's original Worms 1 developers, including:
- Fully loaded original Team 17 developer Amiga 4000/040 from the UK
- Team 17 developer Amiga 4000/030 (UK)
- Team 17 developer 1084 monitor (UK)
- 10+ hard drives in varying degrees of operational status including one labeled "Games Testing"!
- Intact data recovered includes original FMV mesh files that we were able to re-animate! You'll see that in the video.
- Original artwork sketches from Worms 1
- Team 17 compliment slips & letterheads
- E3 display posters, rocket ship, ID badge & promo items (including branded condoms?!)
- Team 17 backup cassette tapes containing goodness knows what
- Team 17 floppy disks
- Team 17 employment contract
- And much more
Against great odds and weeks of troubleshooting I've managed to back up and recover as much as has been feasible. The plan is to make the virtual HD files available to load in the WinUAE Amiga emulator, for anyone to play with. However I did start to feel as though I was spoiling others' fun the more data I found, so I have left some things unexplored as any good adventurer should.
Currently I'm in talks with Team 17's CEO as to whether they wish to reacquire this historic haul, in return for a donation to charity. Or maybe we'll do a contest or charity auction. More info to come!
Thanks for your ongoing support, and I'll be back later this week with a seperate little treat for you.
Your friend in retro, Perifractic
P.S. Don't forget the Patreon Community tab is a great place to chat in exclusive company with fellow supporters, without any fear of #ToxicTwitter or such-like! http://bit.ly/pericommune
Comments
Awesome, thanks!
Eric Stacey
2019-06-20 05:09:07 +0000 UTCThat is my intention. Sorry if it wasn't clear. Every hard disk that can be backed up (doesn't have fatal errors) is now in WinUAE which is an Amiga emulator, meaning anyone can go through them. I will however get Team 17's consent as the legal process is a little unclear. I'm sure they'll be willing to release under a public license. 👍🕹️
Perifractic's Retro Recipes
2019-06-19 20:24:00 +0000 UTCApologies if this is your intention already and I misunderstood, buuuttt: Even if you don't want to go through every hard drive, you should 100% dump them all and give them to trusted others to go through and pull game demos/related files off of for sharing with the community. I get not wanting to dump the raw HD images if there's a chance the HD could contain personal non-game-related info (if you're sure it doesn't, post the whole thing!). I'd hate to see valuable (to the collector community) game data go back in a vault at the CEO's place. What if there's previously unseen builds/etc? Exciting!
Eric Stacey
2019-06-19 20:08:02 +0000 UTC
