> On a related note, did it bother anyone else in the 80's when people would
> refer to Atari or Nintendo cartridges as "tapes?" Ugh, for similar
reasons,
> I don't refer to Intel-based IBM clones only as PCs. Just because it was
> common doesn't make it right.
Well, talking about pet peeves, i
Ah, but let's keep in mind that we are not limited to common vernacular. We
are the "experts" in this field. Just as doctors, mechanics, etc. have
their own words and terms to discuss their expertise, so should we. These
words need not be known or understood by the layman or the Oxford
Dictiona
> Hugh Falk wrote:
> >
> > Oh yeah! :-) Well PC != IBM. PC stands for Personal Computer. Apple,
TI,
> > Atari, C64, etc. are all PCs. So if we're talking semantics, you should
> > refer to them like I do on my site -- "Intel-compatibles" or "Intels"
for
> > short. Of course, back in the 80's,
Hugh Falk wrote:
>
> Oh yeah! :-) Well PC != IBM. PC stands for Personal Computer. Apple, TI,
> Atari, C64, etc. are all PCs. So if we're talking semantics, you should
> refer to them like I do on my site -- "Intel-compatibles" or "Intels" for
> short. Of course, back in the 80's, they were
Oh yeah! :-) Well PC != IBM. PC stands for Personal Computer. Apple, TI,
Atari, C64, etc. are all PCs. So if we're talking semantics, you should
refer to them like I do on my site -- "Intel-compatibles" or "Intels" for
short. Of course, back in the 80's, they were called "IBM-compatibles," bu
>> That's not quite the truth. Baldur's Gate 2 sells, doesn't it? And it's
2D.
>>True, but it took some 3D products first to qualify this.
>What do you mean? That it took several 3d "mistakes" for people to see that
>2d was OK too?
I think he means that it took several 3D games to make the genr
> I was one of the first 10 Abandonware websites, and
>I built up the original AB ring with a search engine, mailing list,
>etc. I was also, not by coincidence, the first AB site taken down by
>the IDSA. My site was up in 1997.
Well I can't say anything personally... but by 1997, the abandonwa
Jim Leonard wrote:
>Pedro Quaresma wrote:
>
> >Yes, but that's not the point; as I explained earlier, the PC versions
> >are signficantly different, rare, or both. Hence the need to get them.
>
> Usually the AppleII versions of most games are more rare
>In what world do you live in? :-)
In a
Pedro Quaresma wrote:
>
> >Yes, but that's not the point; as I explained earlier, the PC versions
> >are signficantly different, rare, or both. Hence the need to get them.
>
> Usually the AppleII versions of most games are more rare
In what world do you live in? :-) The Apple II had a HUGE p
LKS> Of course it's collectible! You never know when you'll find the disks
LKS> loose somewhere. Surely you can't tell me you'd pass over a "pink
LKS> frisbee" or Suspended mask package just because the disks were
LKS> missing. Obviously a package with disks is worth more than one
LKS> without
Jim Leaonrd wrote:
>Pedro Quaresma wrote:
>
> >No, but it *is* the floppies that make Zinderneuf or Fractalus or
> >CCnChomp rare. I have Zinderneuf; I have strong info that CCnChomp
> >exists; Fractalus is an unconfirmed rumor. Honestly, the boxes mean
> >jack squat to me right now about those
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