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Maz posted 23-06-2000 02:25 AM GMT
I cannot find "Deus Ex Machina" anywhere. I once found a dead link to it on the Web. I can't even find it in this site's search engine. It was reviewed around Zzap! issue 8-10. It was rather unusual in that you had to play an audio tape as you played (songs by Ian Dury-RIP). The game took you through the stages of life. The Zzap!team found it highly original. I'd love to reread the review, and get the game. Can anyone help?
iain posted 11-07-2000 10:43 AM GMT
Your wish is my command, I was feeling very motivated last night so I scanned in the review and put it up on the site! Check out issue 10 for it.
I found a copy of the game but dunno if it was the complete version, I'll get my hands on my main C64 games disk and check that for a full version later.
The game will probably be missing something without the original soundtrack tape that came with it though. I wonder if anybody has made an MP3 of it?
Maz posted 11-07-2000 11:35 PM GMT
iain, thank you so much for transfering the reviw of Deus Ex Machina onto your web site. I had forgotten it also starred the wonderful Frankie Howard and Jon Pertwee (who I have just watched on video as Dr Who in "The Sea Devils"). A truly unique game. A D64 copy for my emulator would be great. And if it came with MP3 files too... well I live in hope. Thanks again.
Mort posted 12-07-2000 11:57 PM GMT
I have a copy of deux ex machina soundtrack as a mp3 file.Unfortunately its about 6mb long! I got the track with the speccy version of the game from I think world of Spectrum! It is definately available on the speccy sites.
iain posted 13-07-2000 11:22 AM GMT
The files are at
ftp://ftp.void.jump.org/pub/sinclair/music/mp3/DeusExMachinaPart1.mp3.zip
and
ftp://ftp.void.jump.org/pub/sinclair/music/mp3/DeusExMachinaPart2.mp3.zip
But be warned, they appear to be around 20MB each!!! But I guess they are basically a full "soundtrack" for the game
Maz posted 05-08-2000 05:45 AM GMT
Thanks to the Zzap! message board I am now overdosed on Deus Ex Machina.
1) the Zzap!64 review at: http://www.zzap64.co.uk/zzap10/deus.html
2)the two aforementioned high quality, complete Mp3 files (approx 20 MB each)
3) the spectrum game file at World of Spectrum: ftp://ftp.void.jump.org/pub/sinclair/games/d/DEUSEXMA.ZIP
4) and links to several Spectrum reviews of the game (inc Crash!) at: http://www.void.jump.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Deus+Ex+Machina$
4) and finally I have located the C64 game file at: http://web.externet.hu/sk/c64/games/d/deusmach.zip
Shame that the C64 version is almost identical to the Spectrum version. A conversion can be too good. Nevermind, war crimes are easy (?).
thanks to all, Mark
Mayhem posted 07-08-2000 01:11 PM GMT
Just to let you know how much Deus Ex Machina is alive and well, an original copy of it (actually the Electric Dream rerelease) recently went for �28.50 on eBay. That is a lot of money for one "game", but a hard to find one nonetheless...

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Author	Topic: Requests
Maz	posted 23-06-2000 02:25 AM GMT I cannot find "Deus Ex Machina" anywhere. I once found a dead link to it on the Web. I can't even find it in this site's search engine. It was reviewed around Zzap! issue 8-10. It was rather unusual in that you had to play an audio tape as you played (songs by Ian Dury-RIP). The game took you through the stages of life. The Zzap!team found it highly original. I'd love to reread the review, and get the game. Can anyone help?
iain	posted 11-07-2000 10:43 AM GMT Your wish is my command, I was feeling very motivated last night so I scanned in the review and put it up on the site! Check out issue 10 for it. I found a copy of the game but dunno if it was the complete version, I'll get my hands on my main C64 games disk and check that for a full version later. The game will probably be missing something without the original soundtrack tape that came with it though. I wonder if anybody has made an MP3 of it?
Maz	posted 11-07-2000 11:35 PM GMT iain, thank you so much for transfering the reviw of Deus Ex Machina onto your web site. I had forgotten it also starred the wonderful Frankie Howard and Jon Pertwee (who I have just watched on video as Dr Who in "The Sea Devils"). A truly unique game. A D64 copy for my emulator would be great. And if it came with MP3 files too... well I live in hope. Thanks again.
Mort	posted 12-07-2000 11:57 PM GMT I have a copy of deux ex machina soundtrack as a mp3 file.Unfortunately its about 6mb long! I got the track with the speccy version of the game from I think world of Spectrum! It is definately available on the speccy sites.
iain	posted 13-07-2000 11:22 AM GMT The files are at ftp://ftp.void.jump.org/pub/sinclair/music/mp3/DeusExMachinaPart1.mp3.zip and ftp://ftp.void.jump.org/pub/sinclair/music/mp3/DeusExMachinaPart2.mp3.zip But be warned, they appear to be around 20MB each!!! But I guess they are basically a full "soundtrack" for the game
Maz	posted 05-08-2000 05:45 AM GMT Thanks to the Zzap! message board I am now overdosed on Deus Ex Machina. 1) the Zzap!64 review at: http://www.zzap64.co.uk/zzap10/deus.html 2)the two aforementioned high quality, complete Mp3 files (approx 20 MB each) 3) the spectrum game file at World of Spectrum: ftp://ftp.void.jump.org/pub/sinclair/games/d/DEUSEXMA.ZIP 4) and links to several Spectrum reviews of the game (inc Crash!) at: http://www.void.jump.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Deus+Ex+Machina$ 4) and finally I have located the C64 game file at: http://web.externet.hu/sk/c64/games/d/deusmach.zip Shame that the C64 version is almost identical to the Spectrum version. A conversion can be too good. Nevermind, war crimes are easy (?). thanks to all, Mark
Mayhem	posted 07-08-2000 01:11 PM GMT Just to let you know how much Deus Ex Machina is alive and well, an original copy of it (actually the Electric Dream rerelease) recently went for �28.50 on eBay. That is a lot of money for one "game", but a hard to find one nonetheless...