We just received an email from old Acorn enthusiast Tom Godber about a new product from Masabi, a company founded by him and another Acorn enthusiast, which has signed a deal with Superior Software to convert Repton 3 to next generation mobile phones and connected PDAs.

He says: "Our aim is to give the core game away for free, making it as easy as possible to pass between friends, and charge a micropayment (less than the cost of a ringtone for current phones) per level and/or sprite set ('skin' seems to be the current trendy layman-friendly name), releasing all 144 levels from Repton 3, Around the World in 40 Screens, Life of Repton and Repton Thru Time with the original Archimedes graphics (to make use of the increased colour depth on these new phones).

"On top of this we'll be providing web-based level and sprite editors so anyone can create them for their friends or publish them to the whole community, and other things that can only be achieved in an online environment like leaderboards based round speed records for levels, single session high scores etc."

Other titles such as Thrust, Pipeline and Ravenskull are also being looked into for a one-off price.

Link: http://www.masabi.com/