be Gorgon)..the disks he coded on. I believe these
disks have his source code on them.
- john
The goal of the works of a genius' existance lies only in itself.
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To: [EMAIL PR
I saw what I think was a re-packaged Doriath in the last 2-3 months but
other than that, zip. "Black Magic" for the Apple was the first Apple
game I bought off ebay. That was 2+ years ago, and I might have only
seen one since then. Superb game. Does not take long to beat. Tower
of Myraglen
r is and could persuade him to sign em. :)
I have a few old Apple II games signed by their authors and I've gotten
some nice reactions from them
- john
The goal of the works of a genius' existance lies only in itself.
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From: Dan Chisarick [mailto:[EMAI
authors and I've
gotten
some nice reactions from them
- john
The goal of the works of a genius' existance lies only in itself.
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From: Dan Chisarick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 2:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SWCol
Most of the more recent games that I would have mentioned have already
mentioned... (whoever mentioned Deus Ex, what about System Shock 2, and
Thief)? SS2 was really good, but Thief didn't really do it for me as
far as gameplay. I love the atmosphere, but the game struck me as
tedious in plac
At the most fundamental level, you're trading cash for a binary file.
I've lost count of the software licenses I've purchased where all I've
gotten is a license key in e-mail. I don't own the software either,
only the right to use it (provided I don't break one of a dozen license
terms). Doe
For the Tandy support alone this will be great. Can't wait to try
this. Thanks!
On Jan 13, 2004, at 4:01 PM, Jim Leonard wrote:
I've been tinkering with this for a month now and have had such great
success that I thought I'd inform everyone about it:
dosbox.sourceforge.net
How many original working floppies will be around in 50 years? You can
preserve the wrap, or you can preserve the data. Which is more fun to
play with?
(And if you're thinking 'duplicates', don't discount subtle variants,
or the miniscule possibility your sealed box is missing something by
a
This is of course assuming you trust the archivist :) Seen several
botched, butchered and otherwise < 100% images that appeared to be fine
on the surface.
On Jan 18, 2004, at 9:20 PM, BL wrote:
But I agree that for very rare items the data should be preserved as
well, if a game would otherwise
The fortunate upside is that the Internet makes self-publication a
possibility. I'm not sure how many people can make a living selling
games online, but I imagine Malinche does OK for itself. Every now and
then someone tries remaking a classic, but with a little
'modernization' that makes it
Ok, someone who collects classic games and they're surprised by a 5.25" disk? They got the "shame on me" part right, but have no right being upset at you, and doubly so for not talking to you first.
At the hight of my media conversion insanity, I had everything on a 4-port KVM. Now all the old m
I guess that depends on how you assess the value. No one here has bought a classic game that they themselves wouldn't have paid a few more dollars to have. Some come at the breaking point, but I'd reckon most don't hit that level. Also, sometimes you see two newer collectors on ebay overbid on s
Between games being super-realistic (compared to classic games at
least) and most new gamers not knowing how good a well-packaged game
could be, the buyers don't know what they're missing and could probably
care less. I bet these same people don't watch AMC either. Gotta love
writing for that
Ok, you win that. Just curious, how often does that particular piece
of code see instruction pointer (the one that lowers bids)?
On Jan 21, 2004, at 6:36 PM, C.E. Forman wrote:
How many sellers would tell a buyer they are paying too much?
Yo. B-)
The Shoppe, anyway. If the person uses the Sh
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 Le
While certainly it could be for legitimate reasons, when all of a
sudden a cluster of desirable, related items is ended early, I can't
help but wonder if there was a little backroom negotiation. I've only
done it a few times myself (usually the seller declines) but in all
cases is was because
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Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 2:18 AM
Subject: [SWCollect] Deal on the side???
While certainly it could be for legitimate reasons, when
I love the idea. While a clever acronym I'm not sure what is more rare than 'unique', let alone what word starts with 's' that embodies that. I'd suggest just letting 's' stand for 'scale'. Of course then you run into usage like "ATM Machine" (where if you expand the acronym the sentence sounds
Ultima II is also in the Ultima Trilogy :) Distinct from the others
because the splash screen says "Origin" and not "Sierra".
On Jan 28, 2004, at 1:18 PM, Howard Feldman wrote:
Sounds cool. I'd agree that TWO ratings might be better - one for
'rarity' and one for 'value'. The Giant list of
As an aside I've gotten creamed by this guy on several occasions. I
think he just 'safety bids' on everything :) I'd love to see his
collection. Perhaps an invite to the list?
On Jan 30, 2004, at 12:10 AM, Stephane Racle wrote:
Wow...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItem&catego
Member since '99, no activity for years, then has 10 of these fine
items. Hell, even if they ARE fake, I don't mind a spare map to play
with. I think I'll send some questions...
On Feb 1, 2004, at 8:40 PM, Per-Olof Karlsson wrote:
Did anyone see this auction?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA
I asked for a closeup shot of the map, and asked that multiple items be
in the picture (I only see a picture of one set of items in the
auction). I also asked how he came across so many. If I get a
reasonable answer, I'll tag one and compare it to my known original.
Yeah, it would be a d
Did a Google on "Lord_Pall" (including the underscore, no quotes).
Several hits in newsgroups to that handle around the time his ebay
account was created in '98. All hits... referenced Ultima Online. Ya
know, for $18, I can live down being scammed :) I bought one.
On Feb 1, 2004, at 9:44 PM
My PayPal/ebay confirmation came back w/his name: D Rubenfield, which
does xref to Lord Pall/Dan Rubenfield working for Origin. Maybe I
should get two.
On Feb 1, 2004, at 9:44 PM, Edward Franks wrote:
On Feb 1, 2004, at 8:20 PM, Stephane Racle wrote:
Perhaps someone who worked at Origin in so
No but I run a spam blocker so even if there was there's a good chance
I wouldn't see it. I didn't think it was even possible for spam to get
past the subscription mechanism.
On Feb 23, 2004, at 6:32 PM, Jim Leonard wrote:
Is anyone seeing spam on the swcollect list?
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Yup. I saw the category disappear from my 'favorites' list. I thought I deleted it by accident somehow. Seems its now Computers | Apple,Macintosh | Vintage | Vintage or some such.
On Feb 28, 2004, at 3:19 PM, Hugh Falk wrote:
Did eBay just change their categories? Apple II gone?
Hugh
I think Castle Wolfenstein should win the "most package variants of any
software title ever". Not counting overseas packing and I don't think
they had 'budget' packing, there's like 4-5 variants of the Apple II
version perhaps? I never saw this one before:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.
Its a very long description, but the typo (about 2/3 of the way down)
is priceless:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItem&category=1183&item=3178965064
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Thanks for posting this. It irritates me to no end that 95% of the time things go fairly smooth with the eBay/PayPal juggernaut. But then you read about stuff like this and it makes you want to never touch their system ever again. If it was $5 I'd still be p!$$3d as a matter of principal, as wou
While it is a little off-topic I can't help but throw in my $0.02...
LavaSoft is excellent. Spybot seek & destroy is also excellent. A previous post had both links.
My father recently had a problem (dozens of spybots), and now he runs both. One will find ones the other won't. No complaints, b
While the MX 700 is a wonderful piece of hardware (its what I'm using
now) it is REALLY fussy about how far away it is from its base station.
They advertised a max of 6'. More like 2' for truly reliable use. Of
course I have a wireless network and possibly other sources of RF
interference.
Collect games so I can play them: Guilty (though as of late its
"collect games so I can rip my hair out imaging them so that SOME DAY I
can play them").
Also, thanks for all the tape-archiving advice. I have 1 or 2 tapes
and was meaning to get around to them sometime real soon now. I have a
I realize it wasn't organized like last year, but is anyone going? Its
this weekend.
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I just got a chance to take a look (its been a truly awful week @
work), and it is a thing of beauty. Crisp scans, good color, (an
appropriate watermark)... definitely a next best thing (to owning the
actual mags).
I was going to scan my Computist collection as PDF files. While I've
never us
Appears to have been shelved:
http://lucasarts.com/press/releases/85.html
An appeal from the masses for reconsideration:
http://www.petitiononline.com/LACOSAM/
Sigh. OK everyone, back to your 3D shooters and RTS eye candy...
rs, I see no reason to go.
Stuart
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From: Dan Chisarick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 12:24 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SWCollect] PhillyClassic
I realize it wasn't organized like last year, but is a
eleased. I was happy w/the DVD.
On Mar 21, 2004, at 1:12 AM, Jim Leonard wrote:
Dan Chisarick wrote:
Howard Scott Warshaw was there (wrote Yar's Revenge, Raiders of the
Lost Ark, and E.T. I think) Nice to see a classic developer trek all
the way over from CA.
He was cool. I bought a copy of
Mr. Olafson has mopped up the floor w/me on many occasions (seems to be
a recurring theme these days). Proof of his excellent taste, and
seemingly bottomless financial resources. IMHO he overbids on things
I've seen go for less.
I was hoping that the bid would set him back a bit, but I was m
in an issue of "Computist".) That was another of
the games that got me trolling ebay for vintage software. Kinda
reminds me of a primitive version of "Dark Spyre".
On Mar 23, 2004, at 4:03 PM, Edward Franks wrote:
On Mar 22, 2004, at 8:08 PM, Dan Chisarick wrote:
[Snip]
I&#x
I've seen variations on this theme that irritate me. One was an "Apple disk archiving kit" for $25. Basically it was the documentation and (free) software for transferring Apple II disk images to a PC (using a serial cable and something like xmodem. Bah! Primitive.) Of course the images couldn
Seems to have been a lot of this lately (people accidentally replying
to the list instead of an individual). If at all possible, if you're
going to accidentally e-mail something to a list that's read by dozens
and archived for viewing by potentially millions, at least make it
interesting... S
H sounds good. I'll probably go.
On Mar 29, 2004, at 1:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all.
just thought I'd open an invitation to a historic event, that
officially justifies our hobby. The Smithsonian Institution is now
having a seminar on 'An exploration on the art and science o
Two people who had the same urge at the same time. I know I had a
little trouble finding a reference card for the Apple II version, but
I've since found one and seen about 3-4 of them afterwards. I did
spend buckets of time playing with this, though.
On Apr 3, 2004, at 10:33 AM, [EMAIL PRO
ed the game and searched
EVERY
SQUARE for it, to no avail.
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To: "swcollect Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Adventure Construct
Always seems someone has unlimited disposable income... right about the
time you see something you'd like to have. For insanity like this, I
wonder how insurance companies would compute the value of such an item.
Purchase price? Average cost? Replacement value (whatever that is)?
When you
"Deluxe Edition" of Wasteland???
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItem&category=4610&item=4121816523&rd=1
Aside from lines like "Casual collectors may wish to pass this by" and
"each disk verified by Copy II Plus" (which I'd love to know how he did
that since the protection on Waste
So after cleaning up from fixing a few stray disk errors on my laptop
(soft errors, backup, reformat, restore, life is good), getting pasted
by GNU Chess (a vintage game in every respect) in the afternoon, I
contemplate how I can keep that momentum going. So I tried scanning in
one of my Compu
Apr 12, 2004, at 3:27 AM, Jim Leonard wrote:
Dan Chisarick wrote:
Any feedback appreciated before I make 93+ more mistakes...
(remaining issues).
While I'd like to say you should run it through OCR, I can see from
the content (which kicks f**king ass, btw) that OCR would most likel
"The Seven Drashes" sounds like the title of a modern-day RPG. Of course I'm not sure I'd care for the quests (go to the office, get stuck in traffic, work a second job instead of killing monsters for extra cash, etc.)
On Apr 21, 2004, at 7:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tom,
Can you list th
Very nice. A few things:
- Searching works well (but what does the icon w/the "X-ed out" glasses do)? I saw no visible results.
- All the links (year, publisher, title) all lead to the same destination for a given title.
- The scrollbar down the left gives erratic results
- Not sure if everyone
the basis for my
web page. It does a lot of the PHP work for me.
Hugh
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Sent: Apr 22, 2004 6:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SWCollect] CURIOUS Guide
Very nice. A few things:
- Searching works well (but what does
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 site,
Most people on this list are probably collecting for reasons other than
financial gain (though nothing wrong with collecting to sell for profit
or a mix, especially if the profit goes to buying more games). While
I'm no economic theorist, I think prices will settle down after a bit.
Why? As
Ok, generally I keep out of the grading discussions because I toss
shrinkwrap on games like I would on sandwiches (in contrast to the
death-threat below). Question: How do you handle funk? Basement funk
(game stored in a damp cellar), smoker's house, cat used the space 10"
away as a litterbox
I have an SSI "Ziplock" copy of "Epidemic". The manual just barely fits the bag (needs a little work actually but once its past the opening, it fits snug). It has a red & white sticker that says its for the Apple platform.
On May 9, 2004, at 6:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message date
So that's two (albeit incomplete) copies on ebay concurrently. And
neither have bids. Anyone care to make guesses as to how much they
sell for? I'll say $300-400 tops.
On May 14, 2004, at 1:20 PM, Freddie Bingham wrote:
I wouldn't consider anything sold without a box when determining a
ga
Hmmm, yeah. I think my estimate was a bit too low. It is one of the most desirable Ultima collectables you could hope to bid on (you seem to have all the ones you can't, though). Of course there's no saying what the reserve is, either.
As an aside, I'm also speculating that Keith Z, given past
Likely story :p
On May 7, 2004, at 11:47 AM, Josh Lulewicz wrote:
Heh actually that was supposed to be 9.99
I didn't realize it until after the end of the auction :(
Damn IE autofiller...
-josh
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From: C.E. Forman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004
In my otherwise pristine ratings on ebay I won a single neutral comment
when I backhanded someone for not being responsive (30 days no answer,
and for that I was called 'impatient'). At the bottom of what had to
be a 4-page auction description was a blurb that he's "sometimes out of
town".
$100 for the disk to a Donkey Kong clone. Nice. This keeps up people
will start selling individual games a la carte ($25 for the manual, $50
for the disk, $15 for the reference card, etc.)
On May 6, 2004, at 10:22 PM, Josh Lulewicz wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItem&item=
Looks like the advertisement wasn't the only thing that was framed.
Nice catch (as always). Ask him if he'd like to trade for a
hypothetical 2600 prototype...
On May 3, 2004, at 9:13 PM, C.E. Forman wrote:
Just in case any of you were thinking of bidding on this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/e
I should offer him my copy of Muse BLACKJACK. At $450.00 its a steal (I think it cost me $15-20. Not sure. I was on a MUSE kick back then. Then I realized that they had more titles than I previously knew about and calmed down shortly thereafter.)
On Apr 25, 2004, at 5:32 PM, Hugh Falk wrote:
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!
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.
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
x27;s attention. Besides, I'd
gather that a fair percentage of people who list classic games don't
know enough to hit game collector sites, but they do know ebay.
On Apr 27, 2004, at 2:56 AM, Jim Leonard wrote:
Dan Chisarick wrote:
Evil? Immoral? Risky?
All of the above. It's ca
I was looking at this, figuring that since they were loose disks they'd
go for cheap. Cannonball Blitz drew some attention recently, so I
thought it'd be nice to score an original of that too. Sadly it was
not meant to be:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItem&item=4130397939&ca
Interesting. Though I wonder what will make it appreciate more if all
of a sudden they're popping out of the woodwork (relatively speaking).
He's the one who had a tape + warranty card only auction, yes?
On May 17, 2004, at 7:56 PM, C.E. Forman wrote:
Just in case anyone else wondered.
-
Tom apparently has the solution to labels falling off of old disks (of course I'm not sure I want to drive four holes through all my disks).
On a slightly different topic, don't you think it'd be pretty hard to fight with both a sword AND a trident at the same time? A trident is typically a two-h
Wow. Echos of my "disclaimered to the hilt" comments on manipulating
the values of games on ebay a month or so ago. Note to self: Never
post messages to the list that suggest in any capacity the possibility
of deliberately misleading the game collecting community at large,
independent of any
My Google skills fail me these days. I can't find a site that has the
pictures of the disk to Ultima III from the original (or 2nd) release
vs. the Ultima Trilogy release. Correct me if I'm wrong, this is the
Ultima III disk from the trilogy, yes?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
Vie
Thanks. I know there were two variations on the 1983 release, and I
knew there was the 'Trilogy' release, but I didn't know there was a
1987 re-release.
On May 27, 2004, at 9:17 PM, Howard Feldman wrote:
You could always look on my website... thats what its there for
Dan Chis
Well, this answers a lot of questions about the current state of video games... I LOL at a couple of the comments, most of them from "Donkey Kong".
On May 31, 2004, at 3:20 PM, C.E. Forman wrote:
I saw this too. Hilarious! I loved the fact that they were over-thinking, over-analyzing everyth
I have to chime in on this one too. I've played it for at least 3
different platforms (Apple, Atari and C64 I believe). I love all of
them :) Though I find myself playing the C64 version (emulated) these
days (along with H.E.R.O.). Suddenly I find all the 2600/5200 carts I
loved going throu
Oops. "Hall of the Mountain King" was the soundtrack that looped in the BG once you got the 'flame'. "Mountain King" was the game. Thanks for correcting that.
I think you're right about the number of levels varying between platforms in MR. Like being the person who edits movies for televisio
Only if he was selling the PC version...
On Jun 7, 2004, at 3:58 AM, Stephen Emond wrote:
I don’t think he’s confused... maybe a tad delusional though...
“This item is apparently the rarest game in existence”
Steve
From: Freddie Bingham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, Ju
I don't know if you could. It wasn't created by a music publisher that
the RIAA or any of the fee-collection agencies have an agreement with,
was it? Put another way, I make a music CD on my own, and I sell it in
a few local stores. A DJ from a local radio station (say its owned by
Clearwate
I've not been a fan of places like EB, GameStop, etc. charging $50 for
a game, giving you $15-20 for it a few weeks later, then reselling it
for $40-45. More than once I've seen used games sold costing more than
the shrinkwrapped version of the identical title, usually within a few
feet of eac
Of all the people to pick... (FYI Ray Charles RIP 06/10/04)
As an aside, emulation of vintage synthesizers is getting pretty damn
good (Hammond, Clavinet, Fender, etc.) Some are direct samples, some
are emulated. Even the cheaper ones sound respectable. Of course you
did say "exactly".
Pirac
For a software developer I hope they wouldn't confuse the two
platforms. Still its interesting. I didn't know it existed, but then
my Mac collection is pretty small and to be honest, not too many of the
games I remember for it really grabbed me. Except
I've been looking for "Airborne!" f
Back then I had a friend who worked for a newspaper. He was in charge
of a color separator (it sounded impressive then) so they could print
color ads in multiple passes. It made the dark red and black sheet
black and white. It was excessive but it was fun to have such an
overkill solution.
'People don't quit playing because they grow old. They grow old because they quit playing.' - Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Along similar lines, "Final Assault" (Epyx) for the IIgs (and probably others), if you failed the copy protection, you'd continue normally, then suddenly your climber's face would turn red and he'd die, as if suffocating I think. Kinda slick.
On Jun 15, 2004, at 9:00 AM, Stuart Feldhamer wrote:
LucasArts (DOS-based) adventure games drove me crazy because the
protection was written in the same interpreted code as the rest of the
game (makes sense, some commercial protection schemes are based on
their own VM, speaking of protection schemes repeating themselves).
Anyway, I found one gen
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