Pedro Quaresma schrieb:
Haha, portuguese people don't earn enough money to be able to buy
soccer game tickets at leisure :) :(
Totally OT, but out of interest: How much are the tickets anyway? Let's
say I'd want a medium priced seat close to the middle of the field.
Which also reminds me of
Pedro Quaresma schrieb:
Shadow of the Comet by Infogrames (back from the days when Infogrames
was likeable -- ah that would start a whole new discussion! Anyone
else following the end of Interplay?).
Certainly. It is sad to see the company go that way.
Marco
Jim Leonard schrieb:
know, sorry if that wasn't clear.
I am hoping he will do something decent with the Bard's Tale project... Him
remaking Bard's Tale, and Sid Meier remaking Pirates! are two projects I'm
eagerly anticipating.
It is good to see that the people originally behind those
Pedro Quaresma schrieb:
Another Microprose game with similar copy protection was Pirates!
Gold I believe. You'd have to recognize a Pirate banner.
That reminds me of the original Pirates! copy protection: You had to
look up at what port the gold fleet was in a certain month.
Marco
Jim Leonard schrieb:
I was lucky enough to have a BW hand scanner (remember those?) that used a red
scanning beam. A bit of adjustment to the contrast, and voila -- I could
reproduce those like they were black on white sheets of paper. :-)
At that time I had only heard of scanners :-)
BTW,
Edward Franks schrieb:
What I find an interesting observation of human nature in action is
the fact so many folks that download stuff illegally turn the whole
business into some noble moral imperative. But that's a whole 'nother
topic.
Humans tend to legitimize their actions, so
Pedro Quaresma schrieb:
I still do that now and then to be honest. In Portugal many times we
have to wait months or even years to get a game on the shelves. Most
recent example is Prince of Qin, one of the best RPGs of 2002, started
being sold in Portugal last month, and at full retail price
Hugh Falk schrieb:
I can remember two really BAD examples:
I can include a third: Zak McKracken.
IIRC the game came with five-symbol codes printed in black on really
dark brown paper.
Of course the protection was no problem for crackers, but was a serious
nuisance for any legitimate owner of
Neat coincidence!
Maybe, John, it is your path of destiny : You will bring us a glorious
comeback for Infocom ;)
I can see a Quake under the Infocom label:
http://www.loonyboi.com/if/quake/index.htm
Marco
John Romero schrieb:
June 22nd was also the day Quake was released (1996). ;)
-
Well, I know that Activision is planning yet another Infocom
compilation. Maybe they'll make it the 25th anniversary edition.
Though I'm sure we won't be seeing any festivities on Activision's
compound ;)
Marco
Feldhamer, Stuart schrieb:
LOL! That's a good one, Jim!
Stuart
Yeah, that had me literally LOL in front of the screen :-)
To those kids we are ancient history ;-)
Marco
Stephen Emond schrieb:
I loved this one:
Kirk: And you can't pick up an AK-47 and go killhey, those aliens on
the top row, you use them in EGM for stuff.
EGM: Yeah, we use
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Jim Leonard wrote:
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Hm... Now see, I would probably take a blank disk, write Akalabeth to it, and put
the sticker on -- wouldn't that be worth just a tiny bit more?
**
No smile emoticon...no indication of humor...For
Look at this,
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=3773item=3677785326rd=1
and note the Sophisticated Database... cover only over the lower left
of the box.
Wasn't there a slipcase that went entirely over the plastic box?
Marco
It's www.infocom-if.org
Marco
Stuart Feldhamer schrieb:
Hmm...I appreciate you asking. Legally I probably have no say in the matter.
What is the URL of your site?
Stuart
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Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 3:46 PM
Jim Leonard schrieb:
Just a quick note that the swcollect mailing list software is still a
bit broken -- currently there is no way to subscribe or unsubscribe.
So you trapped us here forever! :)
Marco
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Stuart, do you mind if I use your scans on my site?
Marco
Stuart Feldhamer schrieb:
You mean things cut out of a magazine aren't worth anything? Shucks : )
Here's one of my favorites (attached)
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Well, I haven't painted the actual Mona Lisa either ;-)
Marco
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
In a message dated 05/12/2004 1:55:11 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
software title considered the Mona Lisa of
antique electronic programs
Gosh I hope you aren't talking
Is there actually a game out there of which only one single copy exists?
Marco
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
In a message dated 05/12/2004 1:28:38 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Let's say there are definitely rarer things out there... ;)
Like what Holger, are
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
In a message dated 05/10/2004 9:50:16 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You guys went to school/college together?
Heh, where did you come up with that Marco? No, we live fairly close
to each other, were discussing Moby scale one day while
Stuart Feldhamer schrieb:
Hmmm...
If I had to summarize:
Most people are unhappy that the prices are going ridiculously high.
There is a big argument about whether it should be MS or M(S).
Nobody sees the connection between these two threads?
Yeah, we don't have real problems ;-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Yup, remember Jim, when we were discussing the Moby scale (long time
ago, at my storage locker I believe)
You guys went to school/college together?
Marco
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Freddie Bingham schrieb:
You could stick me on that list. If I see something with a buy-it-now of $5
(that I don't need) and I know I can relist it and sell it for $60, I'll do
it. Just another way to fund this ludicrous obsession of cardboard box
collecting.
There is nothing wrong with
Alexander Zöller schrieb:
I know what you're saying. You crack the wrap, the game is still stone
mint, but it will only grade NM.
There's a good reason to this however. Only with the factory wrap can a
game be graded mint, because once opened, it's no longer as it comes from
the factory.
Indeed, what is it?
Marco
Hugh Falk schrieb:
Never heard of it...is there a story behind it?
Hugh
-Original Message-
From: C.E. Forman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 1:22 PM
To: Software Collectibles Mailing List
Subject: [SWCollect] YEAH-HA-HA!
I just bought Archon from them. Email communication was good and the
game arrived in time.
However, I had also bought Neuromancer and they said there was a
problem with the buy it now items and the games (they had multiple
copies) were actually already sold but Ebay automatically relisted them.
To my knowledge Zork was a word used by computer geeks at MIT for just
about everything, as in give me that zork over there.
Its origins are lost in time; it may have been the book you mentioned,
but its not the only place the word zork was used. For example,
Mattel, I think, had toys named
To my knowledge Dungeon was dropped out of fear that the people behind
Dungeons Dragons might claim a TM conflict.
Marco
Peter Olafson schrieb:
While not entirely contradicting the source you suggest, this page
suggests around origin, http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Zork
Jim Leonard schrieb:
Stephane Racle wrote:
And it goes on every day in a number of industries. :-)
Yes, but that doesn't mean it has to go on in ours. This mailing list
has several prominent people of the software collecting movement as
members, and I don't think it's a stretch to say
Very cool, Joe!
You won't rip the sealed ones open, will you? Please don't, they look so
..pristine.
Marco
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Thought people would be interested in seeing a new article. Please check it out,
and tell me what you think.
Go to my site, and click on the STORIES
Josh Lulewicz schrieb:
I suppose the previous owner might just have liked labelling his stuff..
but it seems unlikely. Anyone got any clue what this could be from?
Some kind of demo copy maybe? Does the name mean anything to you Sierra
buffs? I googled the name but it is surprisingly
Wow, very nice, Hugh!
On a first glance I found one problem: When I click on one of the
sublinks (year, title, etc.) I get a 404. Like here,
http://dynamic3.gamespy.com/~gotcha/PHP/1082653752
Marco
Hugh Falk schrieb:
After weeks of frustration and experimentation, I finally have a DB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Hmm, seems 5 of 7 are owned by this group. I have an idea. Let's win
this one, then we have 6 of 7. Sell them all for 50K, someone surely
would like to own 6 of 7 known. Since my idea and I have two I'll take
35K and you all can split up the rest, heh ;)
Ah, I'd
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3715995961category=28009
It sure is news to me.
Marco
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Well, I got IE6 and Office XP and no enchilada ;-)
Marco
Lee K. Seitz schrieb:
Jukka Eronen stated:
It didn't load on me; needs Microsoft Office components
and Explorer 5.01 (have IE 5.0 something);
I got the same thing. I'm running IE 6, but Office 95 (but Windows
2000). No, my
IIRC some copy protections try to read if they are loading from a
commercially pressed CD or a burned CD. CDs contain information on who
the manufacturer was, what kind of dye was used, what kind of media it
is, etc.
So this tool here might be helpful to distinguish if what you got is the
real
Be aware that they'll probably cancel your account if they find out.
Marco
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Interesting development. Freind overseas made mistake, sent partial
paypal balance, partial Ccard payment to my free acct which cannot
take ccards. So I had to deny it as I don't want to
John Romero schrieb:
Hahaha, I remember interviewing for this but have not seen it yet. :)
He, we'll finally find out if you let your hair grow again! ;-)
Marco
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One thing that fascinates me about our hobby is: We are from
Scandinavia, Portugal, the USA, Canada, Germany, etc., essentially half
the globe, and it connects us.
This is probably not unique to our hobby, but still, in our microcosm we
span the macrocosm.
Marco
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
I
Edward Franks schrieb:
I recently had one person very politely lecture me about listing stuff
at inconvenient (for European bidders) times. I apologized, but
explained that most of my buyers are from the US so I set my auctions
accordingly. After the US I seem to sell equally to
He, I collect software from the time when I was 12-17. It's a matter of
attitude ;-)
Marco
C.E. Forman schrieb:
*Sigh* I have changed the group name to sc-expo (Yahoo doesn't
allow spaces).
Can we resume being grown-ups now? B-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
As a fitting end to this email, I now present to you all a photo showing proof that
the relics of gaming's past are being remembered, and preserved:
http://www.originmuseum.net/steve/drash.jpg
Heah, wow, that's one neat job.
Marco
Thank you guys!
Marco
Lee K. Seitz schrieb:
Marco Thorek stated:
I'm trying to do a deal with the guy running this website,
http://members.tripod.com/classic-videogames/
Anybody have prior experiences with him? Can he be trusted?
I've dealt with him via Usenet and eBay and had
Dan Chisarick schrieb:
While the MX 700 is a wonderful piece of hardware (its what I'm using
now) it is REALLY fussy about how far away it is from its base station.
They advertised a max of 6'. More like 2' for truly reliable use. Of
course I have a wireless network and possibly other
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Kinda sounds like Sexpo ;) Are there going to be scantily clad
women?
Sure, the original CES babes from the 80s. You gotta stay in style ;-)
Marco
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Thanks for the info, think I will go with the MX700, can get for about
$45 shipped.
Heah Tom, if you can get it that cheap, then consider one of their
keyboard/mouse sets:
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=1,CONTENTID=6831
That's one
I have a personal firewall on my system, less of fear that someone might
try to come in, but that something might try to phone home.
For example, a couple of weeks ago I installed a friend's OCR software
for testing and it installed a TSR along with it: even when the OCR
program wasn't running,
Well, the Porsche among the wireless optical is Logitech's MX 700 (MX
900 if you want it as Bluetooth). It uses double the dpi your standard
optical uses and is as accurate as a corded mouse. It also uses
rechargeable batteries, which is a lot cheaper in the long run than
buying batteries again
I'm trying to do a deal with the guy running this website,
http://members.tripod.com/classic-videogames/
Anybody have prior experiences with him? Can he be trusted?
Thanks!
Marco
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Jim Leonard schrieb:
Yes, well, have you considered it was trying to look for a new/updated version
of itself? :-) Not all phone home software is malicious.
Actually, no. I am probably getting a little paranoid.
The firewall also quarantines any suspicious mail attachments, but as
This is probably the nerdiest discussion I have read in a long time ;-)
Marco
Josh Lulewicz schrieb:
I am sure this has been discussed before my time here on the list so
hope no one minds.
What is the game Josh Baskin is playing in the movie Big?
It is NOT Wizard and the Princess!
ROFLMAO, it just goes perfectly together with the corny description.
I really don't LOL literally in front of the PC very often, but this
just did it :-)
Marco
Dan Chisarick schrieb:
Its a very long description, but the typo (about 2/3 of the way down)
is priceless:
No spam from the list here.
Marco
Jim Leonard schrieb:
Is anyone seeing spam on the swcollect list?
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World's largest electronic gaming project:http://www.MobyGames.com/
A delicious slice of the demoscene:http://www.MindCandyDVD.com/
Various
Jim Leonard schrieb:
I think his sarcasm is lost on you. I have known people like him (Dennis
Courtney) and they are actually extremely funny and creative people. If you
read his other comments, they're quite funny.
You are right. I didn't read his other comments before I judged him.
Now
BL schrieb:
Whos this guy? He won an auction of mine, and left this for feedback - he
as well as sniped me a couple of times, grr! :) Wondering if he is on this
list..
Feedback:
I belong to a very elite group of gamers and we all trade on Ebay! OH YES
WE DO! Buyer eriqchang(
Pedro Quaresma schrieb:
I like the idea! S could also stand for Super-Unique, Special or even
Super-Duper! ;)
Oh silly me! I just now understood what Hugh meant with completing the
acronym slaps head
Marco
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
That's the spirit, C.E.!
I think we could at least start a running list and watch it grow over
time. It has to start somewhere. I'll host it on GOTCHA unless
somebody has a better suggestion. I can start with about 100 games
I've searched for regularly on
Stephen Emond schrieb:
For rarity knowing production numbers WOULD be great, but finding the
original numbers would not be easy. It also wouldn't take into account
how many copies exist today. It's hard to even imagine, but there are
people out there who just toss old games in the dumpster
Thinking about our Modern Classics discussion recently, I just saw
Planescape: Torment go for $64:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3072508588category=11050
Not bad for a fairly new game.
And sure enough loads of 'em popped up after it :-)
Marco
Hugh Falk schrieb:
Common
Uncommon
Rare
Imaginary
Oddity
Unique
Shameless placeholder to complete acronym
Better to have than having sex? ;-)
Anyway, I know this is ambitious
a lot more ambitious than the
condition grading scale, but what do you think?
Seriously, I think
You may have heard it already, but Legend, the company run by former
Infocommie Bob Bates and his partner Mike Verdu, has been shut down by
its current publisher, Infogrames.
The Legend now had only little to do with the adventure games they once
developed, but it still is bad to see another
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
I don't have more specific data handy (out of town right now), but here is a
breakdown of UK sales across all
platforms:
1 - NEED FOR SPEED: UNDERGROUND
2 - GRAND THEFT AUTO: DOUBLE PACK
3 - THE SIMPSONS: HIT RUN
4 - FIFA 2004
5 - LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Just won an item on ebay. The email I received from the seller must
have gone through ebay as it contained this message.
[Image]
Never pay for your item with an instant cash transfer service such as
MoneyGram or Western Union. These services are like
Jim Leonard schrieb:
It's not the calculators: It's what makes money. You shouldn't be scared
that accountants and suits are ruining the industry; instead, you should be
scared that the core sales of most computer and console gaming are the way
they are. It is a hard pill to swallow that
Brian the Fist schrieb:
I always like to throw a bone in the gears.. It's not so hard to get
access to a shrinkwrap machine. How do you know, if you get a
shrinkwrapped game, that it is in the ORIGINAL shrinkwrap? Especially
if there are no price tags or anything. If you never open it,
Feldhamer, Stuart schrieb:
It doesn't seem odd to me...Legend has abandoned its core competency -
adventure games.
IIRC Legend didn't have much choice. In the mid-90s the adventure market
started to run dry and Legend had to move 3D in order to survive. Later
they apparently also couldn't by
Stefan Lindblom schrieb:
Hello group,
My name is Stefan and I am gamoholic.
:)
I need some advice, preferrably from someone who knows what a NEW copy
of Wasteland should look like. I have included a picture of a game I
just bought. He declared it to be NEW, and said he got this one
Per-Olof Karlsson schrieb:
I support this view too. Shrinkwrapped items to me are interesting mainly
because I know it's all in the box, and if mint also that it's all in
perfect condition. Other than that, I'm not too interested. I can be found
removing the shrink when I'm curious enough
Edward Franks schrieb:
Here's a slightly different link http://www.glidos.net/ for those of
you who would like to play some Glide-based (3Dfx) games. I haven't
purchased the full version, but Redguard worked for me with the demo
version.
The site also has a link to
Jim Leonard schrieb:
(Ironically, Wheel of Time, a game based on a Robert Jordan novel, is
actually a very good game. The ancientspeak is thick and heavy but
since it's an action adventure it's not as irritating.)
Although commercially it failed, IIRC.
It was by Legend, wasn't it?
Marco
Lee K. Seitz schrieb:
Marco Thorek stated:
Lee K. Seitz schrieb:
Well, I *would* draw a distinction between *trading* games and
*buying* them. I dislike the thought of being taxed for non-cash
transactions.
I tried to argue the same to a customs officer. His reasoning was that I
Welcome aboard, Per-Olaf!
Marco
Per-Olof Karlsson schrieb:
Hi everybody! J
Im a newcomer to this list, and have just spent quite some time
browsing the archives. It seems Ive finally found home, at last,
hehe.
Jim Leonard schrieb:
I've been tinkering with this for a month now and have had such great
success that I thought I'd inform everyone about it:
dosbox.sourceforge.net
Wow! Thanks a bunch for this link!
Marco
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Jim Leonard schrieb:
Marco Thorek wrote:
I'm not sure if we had this topic before, but what modern games, say,
developed after 1994, would you consider collectible?
Collectible meaning high monetary/trade value or game worth owning
until end of time because it is a *good* game
Edward Franks schrieb:
It is a cassette where Richard Garriott talks about the first time
years of Ultima.
Is it an audio tape, as Jim hints? At first I thought it may be a video
and the same that came as mpg with the Ultima collection.
Marco
Jim Leonard schrieb:
Pedro Quaresma wrote:
Please don't get me started on Planeboring: Torment. That game should
never have been a RPG.
Ah yes, Pedro, our resident RPG snob. ;-) If Planescape: Torment is a
bad RPG by your standards, could you explain why? Is it all the dialog,
or
I'm not sure if we had this topic before, but what modern games, say,
developed after 1994, would you consider collectible?
There's only a very few that come to my mind:
- The Dragon Edition of Ultima IX. Although it was the worst Ultima
IMHO, people seem to look for this edition.
-
Edward Franks schrieb:
It is the Ultima VI special edition with the 10 years of Ultima
cassette.
What is the 10 years of Ultima cassette?
Marco
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Edward Franks schrieb:
That reminds me of the old economic chestnut: While not everything
scarce is valuable, everything valuable is scarce.
Had never heard that one. Very neat! :-)
Marco
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Stephane Racle schrieb:
I still remember that $2000 Starcross saucer very well! Although IMO,
someone drove up the price on that one... although if I recall, the
buyer was more than happy with the result.
Oh yes, I remember that one, too. It was sealed, wasn't it?
Still, $2000 is way more
Stephane Racle schrieb:
Interesting. Perhaps very few copies were published since it was the
last of the four Infocomics and the other ones had relatively little
success?
Yup. The Infocomics weren't exactly successful, so production was
stopped after they'd rolled out comparatively small
Edward Franks schrieb:
So, to revisit a discussion, how do the rest of you try to estimate
the market value of these types of games? What would, say, the first
release of Zork -- the PDP-11 version -- be worth? This is really the
hard part of being a dealer of collectibles. What
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Turn on speaks and let it load, run until night turns to day again.
When it is done don't forget to click on the poem at the bottom!!
Holidays 2003
Have a good one!!
Thanks Tom!
And a very Merry Christmas to all of you, too!
Marco
Jim Leonard schrieb:
Is this the same game?
http://www.c64unlimited.net/games/f/Fabulous%20Wanda,%20The/Fabulous%20Wanda,%20The.htm
Indeed it is.
Marco
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Pedro Quaresma schrieb:
Agreed wholeheartedly, but which companies care about that these days?
How many games in the last few years have had a decent manual + props
other than on a special or collectors edition?
I can't recall any. Even very complicated games like Microsoft's FS9,
who really
Pedro Quaresma schrieb:
OK let's see if my memory doesn't betray me (again!)
It was Ultima 4, but veramocor was the word used to get into the
final dungeon, not the word to be used in the end of it.
In the end, the word infinity had to be used (after the principles
and its virtues), but
Edward Franks schrieb:
Gamasutra had an interesting article
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20011017/dodd_01.htm -- you may
need to register on Gamasutra to read it -- on the developer's attempts
to simply slowdown the cracking of Spyro: Year of the Dragon. Their
goal was simply
Just noticed this auction on ebay,
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3057624802category=4315
and I wonder if Brian Moriarty himself has his hands in it.
AFAIK Brian still works for Skotos Tech, which apparently has some
serious financial trouble. Perhaps he is selling some of
Heah Lee,
Lee K. Seitz schrieb:
Also, I've never seen a copy of the original Elite before. It says
it's the gold edition. Does that make it unusual or do they all say
that? Is it worth trying to sell on eBay? Or is anyone here
interested in it?
IIRC the C64 Elite I got for Christmas in
Chris is gonna have a fit over this ;-)
Look here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3055030744category=11053
Marco
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Hello Stefan,
I had something similar happen while ago, although it was only about
$20. I don't remember PayPal's exact regulations and terms of service
there, but as an international user you are pretty much licked, as you
are exempt from any of their so-called guarantees.
Marco
Stefan
Hello Josh,
a warm welcome from me, too!
Marco
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
I just subscribed (thank you Chris for making me aware of this
group). Just wanted to extend a Hello to all the members and
introduce the latest addition to my collection.?xml:namespace prefix
= o ns =
Google turned this up:
http://dmweb.free.fr/CSBManualOld.htm
So the coin is indeed from a Dungeon Master game.
Marco
Hugh Falk schrieb:
Sorry for including attachements, but I was hoping somebody could
identify this coin for me. It came loose in a large box of Amiga and
PC games. It
You can't imagine how much I believed that my first car had a soul.
Still up to today I feel like I somehow betrayed it when I finally had
to give it away.
And I too prefer to fix things instead of giving up on them. Perhaps
that is a trait common to software collectors.
Oh well, as long as I
The Japanese believe that everything has a soul. So if that is so, I
guess that any game in its right mind knows where it'll have a good home
;-)
Marco
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
It's the game, drawing us to it. I've long speculated that we don't find
the games, the games find US. B-)
Hm, I remember years back I found SWM through their website and sent
them an email because I wanted to buy some of the stuff they had listed.
They actually never replied. When I saw them selling via ebay for prices
higher than what their website offered I knew why.
Eventually I bought one item
Lee K. Seitz schrieb:
This is all very interesting, but do I take it since no one's answered
my question, I'm not missing anything and should be thankful to have
the ZZ parchment reproduction?
Sorry, Lee, it seems we got carried away a little.
Yes, as Chris said, your copy should be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
No, it wasn't. The original parchment in ZZ looked like an actual scrap of
paper, with uneven edges, etc, plus the printing was in color. The LTOI
version was like a Slash reproduction on white paper.
I can't say for sure which packages have the parchment and
I recently received this email, but don't have the Zork Classics CD. If
any of you know how to help this guy, could you please answer him?
Thanks,
Marco
Betreff: Inquiry
Datum: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 11:27:22 +0200
Von: Josh-Pruitt Mayfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To Whom It May
They become trickier on all accounts (literally): I remember back when I
signed up, there was something about them charging $1 to your credit
card and when you received your credit card bill, you had to enter a
code given in the PayPal position to activate your account.
Back then that dollar was
I just found a very neat Register article regarding the PayPal Money
Back Guarantee, which is really worth a read:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/31534.html
It ends with this paragraph:
This is just one very small story of hundreds dotted all over the
Internet. And these stories will
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