list, which include getting a reminder of your
password (and changing it, if you don't like it).
I personally would like the list archives to be public. Anyone opposed to
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a modem at
work (don't ask) so I figured 1M was the largest size I could comfortably
download. If anyone has arguments to increase or decrease this number, let me
know.
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, that the list members were only available to other
members of the list. The email addresses are still obfuscated, however.
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SO PLEASE UPDATE ANY WEB PAGES YOU HAVE THAT REFER PEOPLE TO THIS
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I cannot ignore the problems with the mailing list software any longer, so I
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top execution and do memory compares). I guess that's cheating ;-)
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hard to find.
BTW, I just finished _Hard Drive_, about Microsoft and Bill Gates up
through c. 1993. Next will probably either be _Hackers_, which I
started once but didn't finish, or John Sculley's _Odyssey_.
I'd like to recommend Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely.
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rosoft and Electronic Arts. :/
Take Sierra out of the picture and you'd be right :-(
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*, because they were unreliable.
One method was "weak bits" that read differently every time you read the disk
-- only problem is, the original disk itself would fail the check half the time!
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and if it recognized a bad
copy it would continue to let you play *but* the sea battles would get
progressivly harder and harder until it was impossible to win. Sneaky!
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price tag. I can see $10K-$20K for this stuff, but not $100K.
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eagerly anticipating.
Anyone else know of original designers or teams remaking older games?
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Still, as "clever" as Starforce 3 is, I've seen worse. In fact, I was
wondering when better protection was going to come along
(copy-protection became a bit of a joke once Windows and CDROMs rolled
around -- Starforce 3 is the only thing that actually provid
ce Windows and CDROMs rolled around -- Starforce 3 is
the only thing that actually provides a challenge nowadays).
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know -- I have
a Roland SCC1, MT-32, Adlib, CMS, IBM Music Feature, Gravis Ultrasound, Adlib
Gold, and other exotic hardware :-)
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ld give him
the same woman to identify 95% of the time.
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were black on white sheets of paper. :-)
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ECTED] wrote:
HEY!
I LIKED Free D.C.!
:)
Joe
From: Jim Leonard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2004/06/11 Fri PM 07:00:19 EDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SWCollect] No market for Macintosh collectables?
Awesome, thanks for the reference.
Unfortunately, he was responsible for the embarrassme
- Future Wars. Copy protection showed a paint-by-numbers (outline) picture and
asked you what color the section that was currently flashing was. How could you
tell? The picture was in full color on the back cover of the manual. :-)
- Star Control. Codewheel was just plain funny.
Anyone else have f
e.
One box even had the original receipt in
it, with the buyer's name and address. Maybe I'll drop him a post-card
and ask him if he has anything else to sell.
THAT technique was first suggested by Chris, no doubt about it ;-)
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Awesome, thanks for the reference.
Unfortunately, he was responsible for the embarrassment that was Free D.C.! as
well ;-)
Freddie Bingham wrote:
Maybe some more light could be shed by emailing this fellow:
http://www.channelzilch.com/doug/resume1.htm
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nsult to learn more about this?
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ing on the mental capacity of the
individual. Or it can be very tedious, like the whole Abandonware movement,
which I try to distance myself from.
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Peter Olafson wrote:
Oh, sure; there were probably dozens of games that were Mac-first
(others include King of Chicago and virtually every game designed by
Wait, King of Chicago, the Cinemaware game? All Cinemawares were primarily
Amiga and then ported to other platforms.
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it's just old. I suspect sports gamers are so geared to playing with the
current rosters that they don't look back as much as, say, adventure gamers.
I had forgotten about the roster aspect. However, this doesn't explain
non-roster games like golfing, racing, etc.
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se lines, how come there's no market for Sports game collectables
(any platform)?
Normally I'd rack up #2 as the "if it's not an adventure, it's not collectable"
mentality that 95% of the software collecting scene shares, but that doesn't
explain #1. I
True. But at least I'm honest about it ;-)
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Jim Leonard wrote:
Tom of Quest Studios has a whole website on this:
http://www.queststudios.com/
Forgot to mention that the MIDI files Tom has on his site were created using a
very novel method: The program played the notes to what it thought was a
Roland MT-32, but instead was a MIDI patch
2 custom patches, and does not
sound right if you simply play the file.
Tom of Quest Studios has a whole website on this: http://www.queststudios.com/
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land sound files from it, and convert them
directly into *.WAV files, but from what you say and from what I've read,
this isn't possible.
Not by a longshot. But a Rolant MT-32 emulator is currently being worked on,
so who knows, maybe in a few years...
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aming radio and/or download it for later
listening.
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Tomas Buteler wrote:
Ouch! That hurt... :) As a third-world resident, allow
me to clear a couple of issues:
I should have explicitly mentioned Asia, since that was what I was thinking
about -- sorry!
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d newer cards to actually *play sound* from older games.
Regardless of how you get the sound, if you're going to preserve it properly in
MP3 format, use LAME with "--preset standard" if you want to ensure nearly
transparent quality without unnecessarily wasting space.
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that you are examining your actions
and our current laws shows intelligence and freethinking.
Bottom line: If you have snippets of music/speech online because you are
documenting the game and the game's experience for historical reasons, you have
nothing to worry about. (If y
n't get any money.
Agreed, but some people don't understand this. When I pirate a 20+ year old
game to try it out, people sometimes tell me that I'm short-changing the author
-- what, like buying a 2nd-hand copy on ebay gives the author money?
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wns" again as a sound option for
DOS games. Any other differences I should know about?
Do FM Towns machines themselves crop up on ebay or are otherwise available?
Emulators? I would love to document some of the FM Towns-specific versions for
MobyGames...
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Anyone interested in any of the items pictured in the attachment? Let
me know ASAP if you are.
Thanks
Freddie
Lucasarts Museum - http://lucasarts.vintagegaming.org
<http://lucasarts.vintagegaming.org/>
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simple affair.
Nothing is in place currently, however the RIAA prosecutes anyone found
streaming video it did not pay them a license for. So I don't think I'll have
a problem streaming video/computer game music.
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I animated the scenes using crude vector graphics! Ah huah huah huah ha
ha ha ha!"
People not familiar with TV's Tom Snyder can ignore the above :)
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current/former software pirates know the most
about copyright and intellectual property laws without actually being lawyers. :-D
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properties ("Kilrathi", "Tiger's Claw", etc.) and used the string "Wing
Commander" somewhere in the title, that I would get sued even if I wasn't
selling the thing.
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Apple get-together?
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0+ music CDs and 100+ DVDs. I do buy things, you know :-)
I just don't feel I need to collect something just to give it a shot.
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K or higher is okay). If you're willing to do
this, email me for FTP site upload to make it easy for you.
And thanks :)
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Stuart Feldhamer wrote:
Of course, back then I didn't know what Montezuma's Revenge really was,
hence why Panama Joe (or whatever his name was) was running so fast : )
OMG... I just *now* got the joke, after playing the game for 15+ years!
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t playing.' - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A/C:
Ref:
cc: (bcc: Pedro Quaresma/SCAETANO)
Assunto: Re: [SWCollect] Another one?!
*Jim Leonard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>*
03-06-2004 16:53
Solicita-se resposta a swcollect
Are these particularly rare? I wouldn'
Peter Olafson wrote:
I could be wrong, but I doubt anyone remains at Activision from the
Infocom days to remind them.
True, but they were all gone when Activision published those Infocom
compilations, so I thought there was some small hope.
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he could beat every difficulty. Another quest that nearly consumed
him was Airball, and also King's Quest 2.
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Feldhamer, Stuart wrote:
LOL! That's a good one, Jim!
I wasn't joking :-( Oh, well...
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Various oldsko
Stephen Emond wrote:
This year IS the 25th Anniversary of Akalabeth (and by extension, Ultima).
However I believe June 22, 1979 was the date Infocom was formed.
Correct. Is Activision planning any sort of special celebration?
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D]
*To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Sent:* Monday, May 31, 2004 8:54 AM
*Subject:* [SWCollect] Kids and Classic Gaming
"Cute" ;)
http://www.egmmag.com/article2/0,2053,1487038,00.asp
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Marco Thorek wrote:
The 25th anniversary is coming up :-)
For the informal collectors on this list, care to expand on what that date
means? I can imagine people thinking it's related to either:
- Zork
- Adventure
- Akalabeth
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ndell Holmes
ToyotaShopping - A sua Loja Toyota Online
http://www.toyota.pt
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Var
Jukka Eronen wrote:
BTW does anyone here own original game art?
Cover art or ingame?
Nope, but I wish I did of a few titles (I would love the Starflight cover, for
example). The closest thing I have would be my Rocket Ranger comic book.
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les necessary to play multiplayer, even), had them all out for public
playing, including 8 Lynx units! It was very refreshing to see that kind of
mentality for a change.
So there's my $0.02.
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your way is exactly ZERO.
See above. Garriot has done this and the value wasn't zero.
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;worth" by attaching it.
Eh heh, you got bumper stickers on your car Jim? If so I hope they say
"Go White Sox"
Tom
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Or
er on -- wouldn't that be worth just a tiny bit more?
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Even then probably best to give buyer
the choice?
Honestly, I just don't like unattached stickers :) but of course I don't want
to diminish the "worth" by attaching it.
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but B cannot be
converted into A, A must be worth at least as much as, if not more than, B.
: )
Stuart
-Original Message-
From: Jim Leonard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 12:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SWCollect] Nit-picking at its finest
Even with my superior po
ebating whether or not to attach the sticker to the
can (like I found it on my first one). Advice?
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John Romero wrote:
Actually, we had a NeoGeo at id back at the start of 1991
You're correct, my dates are off. Still, $650 for a console? And looking on
ebay, we see... $550? Sheesh.
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t Neo Geo games via emulation,
and while some are pretty good, they're not THAT good.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
***Jim Leonard wrote:*
"(The motivation behind this is part of my Master Plan(tm) for softwarecollecting.org,
which is to become a big helpful source of software collecting for people new to the hobby: a
FAQ, an illustrated list of MobyScale g
ow to tell
which is real/fake, etc.)
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py, or one remaining? For the former, no. For
the latter, who can ever know?
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bar could be graded
near mint, etc. They didn't come from the factory this way...
That's a new one. How about NM (funk: ED) ;-)
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mailing list over the past three years -- you know, resources for people who
want to get into software collecting. I'm hella busy right now, but it's
definitely on my todo list.
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re and a grade, because unless you're going to
take well-lit pictures with a 3MP or higher camera from multiple angles, it
isn't going to represent the item properly.
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more participants, and more participants means more
items that get shaken loose...
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Stuart Feldhamer wrote:
Hmmm...
If I had to summarize:
Most people are unhappy that the prices are going ridiculously high.
There is a big argument about whether it should be MS or M(S).
Nobody sees the connection between these two threads?
I don't, actually...?
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d as "Mint" when it was received opened, or seeing items described
as "Very Fine ++" and "Good Near Fine" and wondering what the hell that
meant :-)
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A deli
ay
want to also describe the condition of the wrap in the abbreviated form.
Excellent. I've added it to the MobyScale, which now inches up to
revision 1.03. The full permanent location of the MobyScale, as always,
is "http://www.mobygames.com/info/MobyScale";.
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the middle: Mint Sealed items are obviously
worth more than Near Mint items, but as to *how much more* is completely
open to debate (and in some cases, not very much more at all).
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A del
tware in both their personal collections and/or business. But there
is nothing that says they have to use the MobyScale, or any scale for
that matter, as long as everything is properly described.
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if they came out of the factory yesterday.
Indeed, which will most likely lead to a few smacks-upside-the-head :-)
I can picture it now: "Dufus! You proudly displayed your complete
Mt. Drash in your apartment window for a week for bragging rights?" Of
course this would probably yel
g you like --
everyone is a free person :) and can do whatever they want to. But for
the purpose of being consistant and avoiding confusion like this, many
(if not most) of us here on the list use the MobyScale, because we
invented it and came to a consensus.
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ap, etc. But I am only one person, of course; any other opinions out
there?
And Jim, once opened, it can no longer be mint. No question about that.
Just making sure :-)
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it), so if you use your
own you need to clarify that.
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what it's "supposed to be" worth, or is it worth what even 1 person is
willing to pay, even if it's a lot more than that?
Things are "worth" whatever someone is willing to pay for them.
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e I still have in my collection is Stunt Driver
from Spectrum Holobyte, and I would like to replace it with a full
retail copy one of these days.
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ave a
problem with that at all. Most hobbies have support business on the
side, (scrapbooking, coin collection, comics, etc.) so this is to be
expected with our hobby as well as it gets larger.
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n the MobyScale for your CURIOUS
site?
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t;, for example -- there
will always be people like that, so the industry will shift all the
time. Until we get to be a bigger industry, we won't have the same
common-sense "protection" that, for example, the comic book industry has
against reprints being considered as worth a lo
I am in the process of upgrading the mailing list software that powers this
mailing list. It is possible that the list will cease to function while I do
this. If it does, please hang tight while I fix it.
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Stephane Racle wrote:
That is, a lot of white-collar criminals only get a "slap on the wrist".
Sad to say, that is true. :-(
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r $5 today and would have gone for $40 4-5 years
ago... price fixing would help me earn some cash. But I'm not willing
to trade my morals and ethics for it :)
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A delic
l price fixing. (slaps Dan on wrist)
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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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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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d to the anticipation and gave you time to
think. I liked the pacing. So yes, I do believe that, and that's why I
have X machines crammed into my crawlspace (don't tell my wife!) :-)
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ics, looking at maps, consulting
add-ins/feelies. I feel that it is imperative that the game be experienced
before it can be considered truly preserved.
So just collect two of everything ;-)
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. At least 3 individual sellers had
lots to offer:
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I just accidentally deleted all of my inbox, which was about 80 messages of
"things to do for other people". If you are/were waiting on me for a favor or
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Jim Leonard wrote:
Dan Chisarick wrote:
JPEG: I guess I was lazy because the scanner supports JPEG, TIFF, PCT
and PSD as native outputs. I can scan each page w/its own settings
(color vs B&W pretty much) in TIFF format and post-process the scans
into PNG.
One more thing I wanted to
o that any bad OCR won't mangle the
displayed results (but the text will still be hidden and searchable).
That is probably the only reason to use PDF. Otherwise, as you found
out, it's better to just archive a series of image files, properly numbered.
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Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
t it's meant for
text mixed with images, not just images. Try just a .zip (with no compression
of course) with all the images.
BTW, if you would like the exact images I scanned, I still have them on the
hard drive -- I'm not just making numbers up, you can see the test files for
your
x27;s no need to take this seriously. :) But still, you have
to wonder, eh? I ranked the above in what I consider most to least
worth, but I'm curious if anyone disagrees.
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Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
World's largest electronic gaming project:http://www.MobyGames.com/
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