'Bandersnatch': The Works That Inspired the 'Black Mirror' Interactive Feature (2019)
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"Fancy a Brataccas bombshell"
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Brattacas for the Amiga
M68k disassembly
https://www.brataccas.com/Page28.php
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Earlier I posted a little tale about the 18 months of existence of Imagine Software, and Bandersnatch, one of the impossible pieces of expensive vapourware that never came to fruition (which has since become the inspiration for one of the TV series under the Black Mirror brand).
I knew that some of the ZX Spectrum code had ended up as part of the game Gift of the Gods, which was ultimately published by a different company who hired a surviving former Imagine Software team.
But I didn't know this other part of the story on how another part of the original Banderstnatch code ended up becoming part of the Amiga, Atari ST, and 68k Macintosh game Brataccas.
It makes sense now, because the Sinclair QL featured an earlier version of the Motorola 68000, so the port from the QL to the Amiga must have been relatively straightforward.
Says Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brataccas
In October 1984, Sinclair Research paid a rumoured £100,000 for the rights to Bandersnatch and contracted Fire Iron, a new company set up by Hetherington and Lawson, to produce the game for the Sinclair QL[6] for release in early 1985.[10][11][12] Sinclair withdrew funding in 1985 when the QL version never appeared, and the directors then formed Psygnosis, with their first title Brataccas introduced at the 1985 Personal Computer World show.[13][14] It featured many of the concepts originally intended for Bandersnatch, and was released on the Atari ST, Amiga, and Macintosh[15] in January 1986.[2]
Look at those graphics! They are untranslated tetra-colour QL graphics on the Amiga, Atari ST, and the 68k Macintosh!
Download Amiga version here:
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/brataccas-6rv
Atari ST version here:
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/brataccas-6rv#Atari%20ST
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Here somewhere, for about 18 months lived Imagine Software
Imagine Software @ Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine_Software
Moby entry
https://www.mobygames.com/company/3673/imagine/
In this review of "Gift from the Gods", the Spanish website El Mundo del Spectrum delve deeper into the lineage of that game, and relate that the GFTG engine was all that remained from the infamous Bandersnatch project
https://www.elmundodelspectrum.com/gift-from-the-gods-1984-denton-designs-ocean/
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A video I made in 2022
I kept putting off watching Black Mirror: Bandersnatch as I wanted to explore all the choices (which takes a bit of time) but the news it's being taken off Netflix on Monday gave me the push I needed (given the format, it's unlikely to appear on another medium after all).
Glad I did. It's well worth it. You have until Sunday night!
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