Re: [SWCollect] No market for Macintosh collectables?
Jim Leonard stated: > >Sorry -- I didn't, so I am overtly harsh on it sometimes. Getting back to the subject (sorry, I deleted the rest of the thread already), I spotted a shrinked copy of Sid Meier's Pirates! for the Mac at a thrift the other day. I passed on it because simply because I didn't think there'd be a market for it and I wasn't interested in it myself. Did I err? -- Lee K. Seitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [SWCollect] Best copy protection?
Freddie Bingham stated: > >I had no problem duplicating the codes on the copy machine at the drugstore >near my house. The second release of Maniac Mansion also came with that >type of protection. As did the original release of SimCity, IIRC. -- Lee K. Seitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [SWCollect] Best copy protection?
Stuart Feldhamer wrote: You made me think about the code wheel for Pool of Radiance. For some reason, on my computer, the code that came up was "Savior" about 3/4 of the time. So I copied the game for a friend of mine but didn't give him the code wheel, telling him that he should try Savior, and if that didn't work, just try again. On his computer, Savior NEVER came up! LOL this was because of the truly terrible random-number generator in POR. The game played like this too, in some sections (75% of the time you'd get the same types of encounters). This PC-specific, I don't think the others had this problem but I could be wrong. This reminds me of how a friend played Leisure Suit Larry 3: The random seed for the copy protection was # of seconds from bootup. So he launched his version of LSL3 from AUTOEXEC.BAT, right after bootup, and it would give him the same woman to identify 95% of the time. -- Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])http://www.oldskool.org/ Want to help an ambitious games project? http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
[SWCollect] Old manuals as PDF
Just wanted to point out a cool site I found - www.hqscansorg.org These guys have recently aquired an archive of roughly 1000 PDFs of documentation of vintage PC games, including Ultimas, SSI games, Wizardry, Infocom, etc. They've got maps and install guides and some strategy guides too, all in PDF format. About 2 GB worth altogether. Anyways I thought it was very cool. If you dont want to download it with BitTorrent, it was also recently posted to alt.binaries.emulators.misc They have a similar archive for Atari 2600, 5200 etc. too if you are into those -- -- Howard Feldman, Author of The Search for Freedom A Computer Fantasy Role-Playing Game Visit its Homepage at http://home.golden.net/~feldman/SearchForFreedom/ Visit the Computer and Book RPG Museum at http://vgmuseum.chaoticmonkey.com/ -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
