Arron Hawke

<Arron's postal address from the Seamus docs>

24th March 2005

Hi Arron,

I’m a graphic adventure fan, and have recently been questing to get more graphic adventures available freely for people to play. Adventuregamers.com has an Underground section dedicated to amateur adventures, just like “Seamus O’Malley”, and I’ve been adding old Amiga games to the database.

My aim is to get the good quality Amiga amateur graphic adventures available for download, so all my adventuring friends can experience games they’ve never played before – the Underground community has quite a following, and my additions so far have been welcomed (remember the GRAC adventures like ‘The Experiment’ and ‘Lethal Formula’?).

The only criteria is that they’re graphic adventures, made by individuals or small groups, and released as freeware. As “Seamus O’Malley” was an F1 Licenceware title, it’s not officially freeware, and it’s also not available since F1 went down the pan - so I’d like your permission to make it available freely for download. I have a copy of all four disks, and with your permission will upload them to the Aminet or a download site, with a .readme to say you’ve given your permission. Last week I got permission from Lee Bamber to make the ‘Relics of Deldroneye’ games freely available, so they should be appearing soon on the Aminet.

Let me know if this is okay; once a download is available, I’ll update the adventuregamers.com database to include it, and we’ll get some screenshots and maybe a review up on there. Feel free to write or e-mail, or join us in the adventuregamers.com forum (I’m known as ‘burns flipper’, send me a message).

Thanks for your time,

Rich

-----Original Message-----

From: ARRON HAWKE

Sent: 26 March 2005 09:10

To: Richie B

Subject: Seamus O'Mally

Hello Rich,

Thanks for dragging me back in to the dim and distant past of Seamus O'Mally.

I would of course be delighted to have him resurrected by yourself and willingly

waive any rights to it. Do with it as you please. As you said F1 went down the

pan years ago and I forget who took over their catalogue as I never heard anything

from them again.

You or also free to put my e-mail address on the readme if you so wish, in case

anyone needs some help, although it is actually fairly easy and quite short if

done in a completely linear fashion (and the game is very linear in construction).

I never claimed to be a good designer. Hahaha.

One thing you might like to mention is there is a major bug in the 'airport' which

I never did fix. It happens on the one section I pushed the boat out and used a

double screen which scrolled across to appear as one. It does occassionally lock up

in that area and I have no idea why. The only advice I can give is to save the game

before you enter the airport as if it happens the odds are it won't the next time.

I must admit I miss the days of GRAC and AMOS to write these style games. I did in

fact do one GRAC game based on a famous 'Australian Soap Opera' for my sister. I

guess you can work out what one I mean. Hahahaha.

I wish I had more stuff for you to add, but sadly Seamus was the zenith of my career

in that respect. Hahahaha. I always intended doing a Seamus II on the PC but found

the time required just so daunting and also the PC just isn't as friendly as the Amiga

was in that way.

Have fun

Arron