What software was promised but never released?
Zodiac 2: By Geoff Phillips, this was to be a machine code follow up to his BASIC adventure program Zodiac (released by Tansoft). The project never advanced beyond the design stage. It would have featured an assembler adventure parser, which Geoff had sketched out and partially designed which had improved sentence syntax compared to his earlier adventure programs. Source: Geoff Phillips. Midwinter / After The Fire / Beyond The Infinite: These were three adventures in the Channel 8 / Digital Fantasia, Mysterious Adventures series (remember Waxworks, Wizard of Akyrz, Golden Baton et al?). These were planned, but never written for the Oric and I don’t think they made it onto any other formats either. Harridges by Tansoft: Never released under that name or by that software company. It became Trouble In Store by Orpheus. Insect Insanity by Tansoft: Never released by Tansoft, this was the follow up to Rat Splat. Fortunately the program survived and it was released by Oric User Monthly’s soft
