Nickel Iron / HTML5 game written in... Object Pascal!

**WILL** · 07-03-2012, 10:42 AM

Changed the thread title. Well I'd personally take that as a compliment.

Not sure if Nickel Iron is as great a title. Actually I don't get it myself, but it's your dime.

Question; Is this actually a commercial project or just a freeware game? Can't see how a fan-made for free clone could threaten them as there have been lots of notorious games that have been cloned and successful, yet the original creators never went after them.

Atari is indeed alive and making games ...I think. They are now owned by Infogrames.

**Eric** · 07-03-2012, 11:03 AM

Originally Posted by WILL

Not sure if Nickel Iron is as great a title. Actually I don't get it myself, but it's your dime.

Probably not, was the first title vaguely related to asteroids (Nickel Iron core) that apparently wasn't related to any trademark, and I was in a hurry ;-)

Originally Posted by WILL

Question; Is this actually a commercial project or just a freeware game?

Freeware.

After receiving the notice, I made a search on the name mentioned in the notice, and found they apparently went against other free & fan sites (f.i. http://atariuser.blogspot.com/2011/0...enate-and.html).
There is a note on the site above that they apologized, but I'm not sure what really happened, given what you can still see at http://atari2600.org/

**Eric** · 07-03-2012, 04:32 PM

Could you rename it too in the February roundup as well? Sorry for the trouble...

**paul_nicholls** · 08-03-2012, 05:11 AM

Hey Eric,
I just searched for the new title "Nickle Iron" on the Google Market (play.google.com), and discovered that it is now compatible with my android tablet that it wasn't before...neat!

I wonder what changed?

cheers,
Paul