Dan Chisarick wrote:
Evil? Immoral? Risky?
All of the above. It's called "shilling" on ebay, and gets you
booted'n'banned. Not in favor of it. :)
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Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])http://www.oldskool.org/
Want to help an ambitious games project? http://www.mo
Remember the scene in Willy Wonka where
Mr. Salt (Veruca’s dad) has his whole peanut factory “shelling”
candy bars to find the golden ticket? It’s kind of like that.
Only I don’t have a factory or a bunch of workers helping me. I
just run a bunch of search manually once a week.
Hugh
>It's pretty much public knowledge
that I wrote my own automated eBay search tool, but if a few of you don't mind
>sharing how you find your stuff, I'd be interested to hear it. Do you
rely on eBay's saved searches and automatic >notifies? Do you save the
URLs for the results of a bunch of
It's certainly unethical, but I must confess I'm lured
to the idea. Of course I don't really own anything
that would loosely fetch those high prices, and
wouldn't afford the items that are dug out by the
unaware, so I couldn't do anything but watch you guys
build up your collections (or fortunes :)
Leveraging the phenomenon on ebay that one rare item selling for a wad
of cash is usually followed by several more just like it, is it a
possible strategy to 'sell' highly desirable vintage items amongst
ourselves on ebay? We wouldn't actually transfer ownership of the
goods, and sure there wo
When I started collecting a few years back, I had an entire 8.5 x 11 sheet of titles, search terms, publishers, etc. You name it. It would take me an hour a day to dig. I found some pretty interesting stuff. I also had more cash to buy goodies with. But I relied purely on ebay's search tool.
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 e
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. :-)
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Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
World's largest electronic gaming project:http://www.MobyGames.com/
A delicious slice of the dem
C.E. Forman wrote:
So just collect two of everything ;-)
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-)
Hey, 45 seconds only added to the antici
Well, I do several hours of clever manual searches, once a week. I can't tell
you what I search for of course :) It has managed to find me some good bargains
that other people miss (especially when people misspell things..). Lately
though everyone seems to be finding all the good stuff I find
I’m obviously not doing anything
special because every time I find something I am interested in I can guarantee
15 other people have also found it…
-josh
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From: C.E. Forman
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Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 10:21
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To: [EMAIL PROTECT
What I'd like to know is how people (the same
people all the time) are finding the rare items. Granted, I'm aware
of a few sellers putting a ton of stuff up, so people watch their
auctions. Everyone searches on Infocom, Drash, etc. But I've also
seen some really obscure stuff by an atypic
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 ;
> 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 g
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 tha
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