So if I wanted to play Mirror of Death...

[zipp]

... what would I need? Remember I'm on a Mac.

But I really want to play it and review it for an upcoming "obscure game" contest.

[Doomy]

That's simple. You can get everything you need (a Spectrum emulator and the game itself, even its manual) from one website - World of Spectrum. FUSE seems like the emulator most Mac users go for.

Links to the game page and emulator. The same site also has games based on Flight From the Dark and Fire on the Water.

Apologies to the sitestaff if this breaches any rules. But hey, you're staff too Zipp, so you can always delete this thread. I just checked and the links on the PA forum are still there, so I guess nobody here will mind.

[zipp]

Thanks, Doomy, for this!

I think it's freeware these days, anyway, so it shouldn't matter. They certainly aren't RE-RELEASING it or anything.

[Doomy]

Not freeware, it's just highly unlikely anyone will try to enforce their copyright on it.

Edit: In fact, it's still sort of possible to buy the game, so long as you don't mind buying in bulk.

See here.

[zipp]

hmmm... I'm getting wierd messages, like "turn the tape over."

I haven't gotten it to actually play, yet.

[Beowuuf]

wow, the joy of loading an old cassette game! there must be a key to tell it to resume loading

[zipp]

I can't figure out what it is, for the life of me.

[Beowuuf]

Some odd combo of control and something? End key or something

[zipp]

Or "hit your head against keyboard" something?

[Doomy]

Which emu did you use? Try the 128K version of the game with ZXSP, I was able to load the game with the Windows version.

[zipp]

Nope. I still get the "Turn Tape Over" message. What the hell?

[Beowuuf]

Are you missing a second file anywhere, or is it all one package?

[zipp]

Seems to be all one package.