Sheep in space on C64 (Rob's Retro Rambles)
19Playing Jeff Minter's Sheep in space for the first time in years as I've been saving it for a time when things are rough and I need the healing power of Llamasoft. This was one of those times :/
I played this A LOT back in the day, now sure how much I remember or how much muscle memory I've retained since then but it's fun to return to it regardless.
One thing I've since learnt is the title music is an arrangement (by James Lisney) of Bach's "Sheep may safely graze" (Schafe können sicher weiden in the original German), so that's a rather nice touch I was completely unaware of as a kid. I just thought it was more of the usual 'rearrange a piece of classical music as there's no copyright on that we can get done for' that you got a lot of back then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep_may_safely_graze
Still, I DID learn *one* thing at the time from playing this, and that was the meaning of the word 'replete'. Never let it be said Llamasoft titles aren't edumacashionul.
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