Guilty of the exact same thing. My friend was over one day and say
Why don't you try walking around instead of just rebooting? Then I
remember frantically searching FOR the whirlpool not long afterwards.
Ultima III is on the top 5 games I want to replay.
On Jan 22, 2004, at 1:08 AM, Jim
In a message dated 01/22/2004 12:21:16 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
God, yes!! Those were the days -- days when you were actually faster than
your computer. I remember frantically ripping the disk out too.
Yeah but you had to be careful. If it started to write the disk
On Jan 21, 2004, at 10:14 PM, Stefan Lindblom wrote:
Yeah, I got the same mail.. or rather it was info on the side in a mail
another person sent to me through Ebay. Here is what it said:
Never respond to an unsolicited email that includes incentives
to
buy or sell an item off the eBay
In a message dated 01/21/2004 10:15:16 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Never pay for your item with an instant cash transfer service such as
MoneyGram or Western Union. These services are like sending cash to a
stranger - they are an extremely unsafe way to pay.
Further more
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah but you had to be careful. If it started to write the disk could be
corrupted and you lose it all. I would usually make a copy of my save
disk (with Wizardry it was autosave so VERY important) so I would be
protected if my disk was ruined by a pull
Yes, but I was
On Jan 20, 2004, at 11:19 PM, Lee K. Seitz wrote:
[Snip]
I have yet to make serious use of my CD-R drive, sad to say. (However,
I actually went through all my unlabeled 3.5 disks the other day and
made some quick notes on most of them as to what they had on them.
Now I just gotta doe the 5.25
Edward Franks stated:
You might also
check out want media brands your CD-R drive recommends, if any.
Good idea.
No name generics have spotty quality. I've seen some fail in less
than a year. That said, even CD-Rs won't last as long as the factory
press CD-ROMs games come on these
Lee K. Seitz wrote:
It's just
incredible handy to stuff gobs of 5.25 or 3.5 inch backups on a CD-R or
DVD-R.
Amen, brother! That's my goal. I've got a ton of disks to back up
and get rid of so I can reclaim a little bit of space.
It's even handier to back up 6+ CDs onto a single DVD-R.
Seriously, I do seem to remember there was a difference between the CD
version and the floppy version. Though given RTZ's lack of appeal I
would agree that the floppy version is of interest to collectors and
RTZ fanatics. Which is a bit of a shame. I liked the way they did the
user
The Starcross saucer pictured in the article is my own. B-)
- Original Message -
From: Marco Thorek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 9:17 PM
Subject: [SWCollect] Article on Slashdot
Slashdot had a short article on early game packagings here,
DO-IT!
DO-IT!
DO-IT!
B-)
Seriously, if eBay is saying Western Union is
unsafe (or even less safe than PayPal), that is a total lie and hurts WU's
reputation. They *should* sue 'em.
- Original Message -
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday,
In a message dated 01/22/2004 4:32:44 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hmm, I don't believe that applies to us non-americans but I could be
mistaken.
I think it does Howard, the "buyer and seller protection" plans do not specify "for US customers only". Far as I know they
On Jan 15, 2004, at 10:19 AM, Pedro Quaresma wrote:
That is excellent news indeed! But what do you mean by not
perfectly? With slowdowns/choppy?
I just tried the newest MT-32 'enabled' version [1] of DosBox. After
having to snag a newer version of the SDL dll [2], I can now here the
speech
Talking about preserving games... I have an old Apple II diskette with a
graphic adventure game called Whiz Kid. It's in the style of the early
Sierra Hi-Res Adventures, with graphics on the top and text on the
bottom of the screen. The following information is given at bootup:
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