Re: Re: [SWCollect] New Article from The Origin Museum

2004-04-26 Thread ommail
Done-and-done, Jim! Joe From: Jim Leonard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/04/26 Mon AM 01:35:36 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SWCollect] New Article from The Origin Museum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have complete confidence that the data will survive--I'll leave that aspect

Re: [SWCollect] New Article from The Origin Museum

2004-04-26 Thread C.E. Forman
If I can add to this: I believe that the MEDIUM you write about isn't complete without the actual gameplay experience: Loading the game, looking at the title screen with anticipation, gameplay mechanics, looking at maps, consulting add-ins/feelies. I feel that it is imperative that the game

Re: [SWCollect] New Article from The Origin Museum

2004-04-26 Thread Vincent Joguin
At 10:25 26/04/2004 -0500, you wrote: AND the original hardware to play it on, right Jim? If you want the full experience, you can't settle for 1 second load time on an emulator when you could have 45 seconds on the original Apple. B-) If it's 1 sec. in the emulator, then it's a bad emulator

Re: [SWCollect] New Article from The Origin Museum

2004-04-26 Thread Jim Leonard
Vincent Joguin wrote: If it's 1 sec. in the emulator, then it's a bad emulator ;-) For those who didn't get the joke, Vincent has written several emulators. :-) -- Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) World's largest electronic gaming project:http://www.MobyGames.com/ A delicious slice of the

Re: [SWCollect] New Article from The Origin Museum

2004-04-26 Thread Lee K. Seitz
Vincent Joguin stated: At 10:25 26/04/2004 -0500, you wrote: AND the original hardware to play it on, right Jim? If you want the full experience, you can't settle for 1 second load time on an emulator when you could have 45 seconds on the original Apple. B-) If it's 1 sec. in the emulator,

Re: RE: [SWCollect] New Article from The Origin Museum

2004-04-25 Thread ommail
*** Umum.umm I'm speechless. Stuart *** Hehe--I'll assume that this is positive feedback, Stuart. Thanks for the compliment! ;) Yeah, I was stunned as well, and I hope that I conveyed that in the article. Also, thanks to C.E. for

Re: [SWCollect] New Article from The Origin Museum

2004-04-25 Thread Marco Thorek
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

Re: Re: [SWCollect] New Article from The Origin Museum

2004-04-25 Thread ommail
** Marco Wrote: Very cool, Joe! You won't rip the sealed ones open, will you? Please don't, they look so..pristine. Marco ** Don't worry, Marco--we won't. :) The Museum specializes in 'preserving' Origin games. We already are very proud of our

Re: [SWCollect] New Article from The Origin Museum

2004-04-25 Thread Dan Chisarick
I won't startup the semi-annual archive/preserve debate again (it hasn't been 6 months since the last one :), but since we have a few new folks, anyone else do the 'media archiving' thing? On Apr 25, 2004, at 8:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Marco Wrote: Very cool, Joe!

Re: [SWCollect] New Article from The Origin Museum

2004-04-25 Thread Jim Leonard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have complete confidence that the data will survive--I'll leave that aspect to the collector-types that dig THAT aspect of collecting (Jim, Dan, etc.--VERY capable hands!) I prefer to distinguish what WE do as 'preservation'. It shows respect for the MEDIUM, as well as

[SWCollect] New Article from The Origin Museum

2004-04-24 Thread ommail
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 section--It's called,One Last Goodbye From The Creators of Worlds...-- I think you'll be pleased. Thanks for looking. ...Preserving Worlds...

Re: [SWCollect] New Article from The Origin Museum

2004-04-24 Thread Dan Chisarick
Ya think he'd send us a link ;) Good lord that was amazing. Its good to be the king (or at least his curator...) On Apr 24, 2004, at 2:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thought people would be interested in seeing a new article. Please check it out, and tell me what you think. Go to my

RE: [SWCollect] New Article from The Origin Museum

2004-04-24 Thread John Romero
Very nice! I saw two games in there that I worked on (one was a port; never released). Good score! - John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 11:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SWCollect] New Article from

RE: [SWCollect] New Article from The Origin Museum

2004-04-24 Thread John Romero
is the reason why my C64 port got canceled). - John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 11:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SWCollect] New Article from The Origin Museum Thought people would be interested in seeing a new article

RE: [SWCollect] New Article from The Origin Museum

2004-04-24 Thread Stuart Feldhamer
Umum.umm I'm speechless. Stuart -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 2:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SWCollect] New Article from The Origin Museum Thought people would be interested in seeing a new