Midland Boyz Menus

[Champions_2002]

I have found Midland Boyz Menus on another site and thought i would like to share them here.

Here is a list of them..

• Midland Boyz 01
  Fantasy World Dizzy
  Treasure Island Dizzy
  Fast Food
  Virus
  Pengy
  Space Invaders!
  
  Midland Boyz 02
  StarQuake
  Edd The Duck
  Spell Fire
  AirBall
  
  Midland Boyz 03
  Star Wars
  Starblaze
  Nova
  Klax
  
  Midland Boyz 04
  Led Storm
  Music Programs
  The Midland Boyz Ego Trip
  
  Midland Boyz 05
  Last Duel
  Leatherneck
  Escapade
  
  Midland Boyz 06 2 Disks
  Puffy's Saga
  Soundtracker
  
  Midland Boyz 07 2 Disks
  Llamatron
  International Karate
  Entombed
  Noisetracker
  Cybernetix
  
  Midland Boyz 08
  Rockfall
  Bellum
  Sequencer One
  Ballzone
  
  Midland Boyz 09
  The Last Arcadian
  Space War
  Chuckie Egg
  Chuckie Egg II
  The Hitchhikers Guide
  
  Midland Boyz 10 2 Disks
  Final Fight
  Droid
  
  Midland Boyz 11
  Xenon
  Bomb Jack
  Bombuzal
  
  Midland Boyz 12
  Robotz
  Pacmania
  Buggy Boy
  Rolling Thunder
  
  Midland Boyz 13
  Nebulous
  Eliminator
  Revenge of the Mutant Camels
  
  Midland Boyz 14
  Klatrix
  Strike Force Harrier
  Leather Godesses of Phobos
  
  Midland Boyz 15
  Artura
  Skull Digery
  
  Midland Boyz 16
  Kick off Extra Time
  Kwik Snax Dizzy
  
  Midland Boyz 17
  Wizball
  Levithan
  
  Midland Boyz 18
  Charoits of Wrath
  
  Midland Boyz 19 Part II 3 Disks
  Cannon Fodder
  
  Midland Boyz 19 Part III 2 Disks
  Crystal Kingdom Dizzy
  
  Midland Boyz 20 2 Disks
  Chaos Engine, The
  
  Midland Boyz 21
  Viz
  Zork I
  Zork II
  
  Midland Boyz 23
  Barbarian
  Chain Reaction
  Douglas Rockmoor
  Douglas Rockmoor II
  
  Midland Boyz 24
  Frankenstein
  Dizzy Panic
  Prince of the Yolkfolk
  Game Cracker
  Pompey Music
  
  Midland Boyz 25
  Elite II
  
  Midland Boyz 27 2 Disks
  Another World
  S.E.U.C.K. Manual
  S.E.U.C.K.
  
  Midland Boyz 28
  Rolling Ronnie
  Archer Mclean's Pool
  Pocket Bike
  Sound Tracker
  
  Midland Boyz 29
  Steg The Slug
  Moon Patrol
  Ultimate Virus Killer
  Doc Displayer
  
  Midland Boyz 30
  Dynablaster
  Total Eclipse
  Empire Strikes Back
  Joust
  IK+
  Count Zero Mix-U-Load
  
  Midland Boyz 31
  The Simpsons
  Carrier Command
  Dugger
  
  Midland Boyz 32
  Lotus III
  Rick Dangerous
  Grav
  
  Midland Boyz 33
  Roll Out
  North Star
  Paradroid '90
  Llamatron
  Huckleberry Hound
  Pipeworx (Demo)
  
  Midland Boyz 35
  Turn n Burn
  Arkanoid II
  Bug Bash
  Mouth Trap
  A-Z Cheats
  
  Midland Boyz 37
  Ghost n Goblins
  Wicked
  Sim City
  Beach Party Demo
  
  Midland Boyz 38 2 Disks
  Gods
  Horror Zombies From The Crypt
  
  Midland Boyz 39 3 Disks
  Zero 5
  Wacky Races
  
  Midland Boyz 42
  The Immortal
  
  Midland Boyz 43 2 Disks
  Civiliation
  
  Midland Boyz 44
  Master Blazer
  Beyond the Ice Palace
  Lottery Number Generator
  Ripper
  
  Midland Boyz 45 2 Disks
  Knights of the Sky + Manual
  Deluxe Paint
  
  Midland Boyz 47
  Deathbringer
  
  Midland Boyz 48
  Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker
  Cybercop
  Spellbound Dizzy
  Killer Tomatos
  Disk Copier
  
  Midland Boyz 49
  Seymour Goes to Hollywood
  Grotesque Demo
  
  Midland Boyz 50
  Baby Jo
  Bubble Bobble
  Disk Copier
  Atari TT Patch

http://rapidshare.com/files/1905047061/ ... _Boyz_0.7z

[Ian]

Thanks. Hopefully I dont miss the date for the next tosec update so these will get included.

[spiny]

the rapidshare link appears to be broken.

[Brume]

Great, thanks for the content
Have you tested all the menus? Everything works fine?

[purpleeagle01]

I found this link works fine.

http://cloudstor.es/f/gSy/#

[simonsunnyboy]

Never seen anyone of them yet. I'm quite astonished to see they seem not to have used ripped stuff (atleast not as far as I could check out yet)

Technical quality is mid standard, not coming near the big 3 of Atari ST menu disk teams.

[simonsunnyboy]

I've added the fileset to my Ubuntu One account to aid in sharing:

http://ubuntuone.com/2LUE9PjrR2tQoeW7DKCT3o

[Brume]

simonsunnyboy: the menus aren't so rare They were imaged by Lee Marsh back in 2002 and he uploaded them on a FTP (don't remember which one, maybe Phantom's FTP or his own FTP).

But you're right: this crew was totally unknown before Lee uploaded the disks. At least I never found any greetings or infos about The Midland Boyz in other intros or e-zines...

[purpleeagle01]

Hi I tested yesterday 4 menus.
Real STE 4Mb TOS 1.6

Nr01 works great
NR02 empty disk no.3 +4 also empty, was then converted to the JayMsa in MSA and they work great.
Nr.05 Leathernecks Does Not Work
Nr.06 All Works Fine
Nr.07A All Ok
Nr.07B Cybernetix Crashes with 2Bombs
Nr.08 Ballzone Does Not Work
Nr.09-12 All works fine
Nr.13-15 All OK
Nr.16 Loading with 3Bombs Still the Menu and Games working fine
Nr.17 Leviathan does not start after pressing start game
Nr.18 All works fine
Nr.19P2A-19P2C Cannot converted to MSA the game (Cannon Fodder)Works Fine and the savedisk (written back to disk with ST2Disk)
Nr.19P3A-19P3B Cannot converted to MSA the game (Crystal Kingdom Dizzy)Works fine (written back to disk with ST2Disk)
Nr.20A-20B All Fine
Nr.21 Viz Ingame Crash with 4Bombs
Nr.23 Barbarian Crashes with 2Bombs,Douglass Rockmoor 2.5MB Crashes with 2Bombs,The other versions no Joystick Reaction??,Only Rockmoor 2 1MB Works.
(Better use the original Budgie UK Versions)
Nr.24 All Fine
Nr.25 All Fine
Nr.27A-27B All Fine
Nr.28 All Fine
Nr.29 Steg The Slug stops after loading and no response
Nr.30 All Fine






I now have all converted to the MSA and will test in the next days.
Cheers
I only use REAL Hardware can somewhere check this on Emulators?

[Champions_2002]

Great, thanks for the content
Have you tested all the menus? Everything works fine?

Hi Brume

i just put each one in STEEM to get the menu, they all work on the menu

I found this link works fine.

http://cloudstor.es/f/gSy/#

I forget to say that i got these from ISOZone , they have a lot of Atari Downloads

check it out

http://theisozone.com/downloads/retro/atari-st/

[Brume]

purpleeagle01: thanks for the tests Can you report bugged menus here ?
They will be really useful very soon...

[lotek_style]

Never ever heard of that group. Nice find! Who are they? They did many menus for such an "unknown" group.

[TheNamelessOne]

..... I am stunned ......

Oh my, what a blast from the past this page is.... Sorry let me introduce myself

I am The Nameless One (TNO) of the Former Midland Boyz ST CD Crew and to be honest, I didn't think any of these menu's still existed, let alone be talked about on various ST Sites, and as I stated, I'm quite stunned at the moment. An old friend posted me this page and a Google search page on the group. It's been over 20 years since we made these disks.....

Right enough of the babble

About the group

We were composed of myself and my best mates back in 1991 and we decided to make our own "Compilation" disks, just like our hero's at the time, Pompey Pirates, The Medway Boys and Automation. We just started doing it for fun and to learn how to code in 68000 MC. It was good fun at the time

At the start we used to hack n BADLY compress our own games, every now and again we "Borrowed" someone elses crack but most of the time it was our own collections of ST Original Games. We got a lot better after menu 18 as some of the code we got our hands on make the menu design's a lot better and the cracks were 100%-ish and we got compression under control thanks to Atomic 3.5 and Firehawks Speed Packer 3

We never started to be a household name like Pompey's or Automation and the distribution area was VERY Limited, hence why we were not that well known.

Based in Leicestershire (Midlands) we made 63 floppies worth of menu's with several "Menu 19 Part X" menu's for games that didn't quite fit the norm.
Unfortunately, I lost my entire ST Collection in a house fire many years ago and thought these menu's were lost in the eather..
To find several of them online to download was mind-blowing !

The menu I liked the most though was MENU 50 as it contained a ReMapped "Bubble Bobble" designed by us, If anyone has the TMB "Obsession" disks Please Post them !!!

We were mainly 3 people, myself TNO, Bad Boy T and Blackmaiden of Jupiter 9T (Another unknown group) and several game suppliers including Captain Chaos, Tezza and Dwain Dibbly

2 of us understood code, which helped a lot, and i remember that menu 50 was written over a few months as the Bubble Bobble remap was a nightmare !

Seriously, folks, if any one else has ANY of the missing menu's , please get em uploaded

Who ever originally uploaded these where ever, thank you very much.

All the best to all you ST Nuts out there and to MUG UK for running this fantastic site
Greetings fly out to all the best and worst of the ST Crowd - Alien You were the boss !!!
(Shame I ain't got a HTML Scroller lol)

Oh and just a heads up, all the available menu's are on TheISOZone.com, which I just found out about !!!!

Seriously folks, you have made my day

The Nameless One signing Off

WRAP!

[lotek_style]

TNO: Thanks a lot for all the informations Please also visit our demoscene website:

https://demozoo.org/groups/41168/

[Mug UK]

All the best to all you ST Nuts out there and to MUG UK for running this fantastic site

Not quite true, I'm just the person with the most posts due to the admin duties of the last <insert long time> years on here

Welcome aboard though! Pity you lost everything in the fire, as Brume is always after more for his www.stonish.net site