Re: [SWCollect] How to protect against theft of big-money items?

2003-12-02 Thread Pedro Quaresma
For special items you could also state that you won't accept bidders with less than, for example, 100 feedback. -- Pedro R. Quaresma Salvador Caetano IMVT Div. Sistemas de Informação / Systems and Information Division Administração e Desenvolvimento Lotus Notes / Lotus Notes Administration and

[SWCollect] You think you know them all and then suddenly...

2003-12-02 Thread Pedro Quaresma
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3062932635category=4315 After finding that 4-game bundle that included Ultima 6 and a gravis gamepad, I thought I had seen the last of Ultima-including bundles, but I guess I was just plain wrong! -- Pedro R. Quaresma Salvador Caetano IMVT Div.

[SWCollect] [Fwd: Re: 5.25 disks?]

2003-12-02 Thread Jim Leonard
Sarinee? Which ones should I send to you and to which address? -- Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) World's largest electronic gaming project:http://www.MobyGames.com/ A delicious slice of the demoscene:http://www.MindCandyDVD.com/ Various oldskool PC rants and ramblings:

RE: [SWCollect] [Fwd: Re: 5.25 disks?]

2003-12-02 Thread Feldhamer, Stuart
Piracy? Here? On this bastion of software morality? Why my fragile mind can not cope with it! AAAR!!! Hey, that reminds me, does anyone have a working copy of The Quest for IBM? Stuart -Original Message- From: Jim Leonard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [SWCollect] [Fwd: Re: 5.25 disks?]

2003-12-02 Thread Jim Leonard
CRAP!!! This is the very first time in my life I have sent a message to the wrong address!! I am a moron! Feldhamer, Stuart wrote: Piracy? Here? On this bastion of software morality? Why my fragile mind can not cope with it! AAAR!!! Hey, that reminds me, does anyone have a

Re: [SWCollect] [Fwd: Re: 5.25 disks?]

2003-12-02 Thread Jim Leonard
Feldhamer, Stuart wrote: Don't worry...some good can come out of this... So how do you repair the broken disks? I'd sure like to know. Seriously? Well, most broken disks are merely copy-protected. If you have special software or hardware, it is fairly trivial to analyze the disks to get a

[SWCollect] Repairing floppies (long)

2003-12-02 Thread Jim Leonard
(hopefully this information will be useful to those of us who have bad diskettes in their collection and want to give a shot at repairing them) In further reply to Stuart, to recover truly broken disks (not copy-protected), it depends on how bad the damage is. Some bad disks are caused

Re: [SWCollect] Repairing floppies (long)

2003-12-02 Thread Jim Leonard
This is neat info. Would you mind if I quoted it somewhere on oldskool.org (giving you full attribution, of course)? Dan Chisarick wrote: Obligatory Apple plug - I've done very similar things w/Apple disks. Most copy-protected Apple disks use very basic format protection (they change the

[SWCollect] Some good Phoenix software info

2003-12-02 Thread Stephane Racle
Hello eveyone, I was able to dig up some good information and items on Phoenix Software, which published software from 1981 to 1984. I thought it might be of interest! I've included links to some pictures at the following address: http://www3.sympatico.ca/sracle Some interesting tidbits