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I have no argument with that. (I think it's a good idea.) But what
happens if we send a message that exceeds that size? Do we get a
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uoted the whole message. I'm not sure how I feel about this. I'm
glad they caught it, but now worried they might start catching things
I don't want them to.
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>Lee K. Seitz wrote:
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>> I noticed the book doesn't have an index, so I'm trying to compile a
>> basic one as I go for later reference. I'll publish it on the web
>> when I'm finished. Does this seem like a useful project?
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ne the first time. [Looks at Slashdot.] Looks like eBay pulled
it around 10:00 p.m. EDT on Monday.
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without them?
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_.
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me mad was how they tried to pass the Cheese Shop copy protection off
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got it wrong, you went to the system you picked and
were attacked by Orion pirates, Klingons, or Romulans. If you
survived the encounter, you could try again. 8)
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I didn't think there'd be a market for it and I wasn't interested in it
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>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.
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from a CD. As long as you keep the
CD, you can play the tape for your own personal use. At least this is
the case is the United States.
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>If it's <1 sec. in the emulator, then it's a bad emulator ;-)
All right, all right, I confess! I've occasionally set the speed of
my Apple II emulator higher than 1 MHz in order to make things go
faster. Whew! I feel better now that th
s: An Approach to Interactive Fiction_ by Nick Montfort
(ISBN 0262134365). I figured those here would be interested.
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must say they got the bit about the 2600 exactly wrong. The 2600
didn't start selling strongly *until* they licensed and released Space
Invaders, so that's *exactly* why people bought it at first.
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Wow! Someone's ported Quake to the Inform programming language. Grab
your favorite Z-Machine interpreter, a copy of Quake, download the
file from http://loonyboi.com/if/quake/index.htm and have at it!
Oh, and happy April Fool's Day. 8)
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hers) what amounts to free cash
advances from a credit card. I'd say this qualifies.
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Jukka Eronen stated:
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>It didn't load on me; needs Microsoft Office components
>and Explorer 5.01 (have IE 5.0 something);
I got the same thing. I'm running IE 6, but Office 95 (but Windows
2000). No, my software combination isn't typical. 8)
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> eBay item 3087194177 (Ends Mar-28-04 05:00:00 PST) - 1 CENT N/R! 99
>Adventure Games CD: GRtech Software Inc.
"Oldware"? Never heard that term before. What's the difference
between "oldware" and "abandonwa
story, it can be worth it. I saw some vintage video footage,
including commercials, I hadn't seen before.
I, unfortunately, messed up my recording and won't be able to try
again this evening. If anyone else records it, any chance I can get a
copy?
ck to the late '70s with
my first 2600. (Although I do seem to have temporarily misplaced one
or two games.) Of course, I've bought very few brand new console games
since the late '80s, and those were just more 2600 games. 8)
I think it's just another symptom of
lladaptor, 2600
to USB (http://www.atariage.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=267)
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acter and Hasbro, the owner, isn't doing anything with it. My
page is maintaining brand awareness (yeah, right) in case they *do*
decide to do something. So *then* I'll get the cease and desist. 8)
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examples of lost trademarks are "aspirin" and "escalator." This is
why you read the occasional story of Disney threatening to sue a
daycare center for using hand-made representations of their character
gs on the list, but you might check out the rarity of other
European releases and see what you think of his ratings. And send him
an e-mail; I'm sure he'd be happy to hear about and discuss it. Tell
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r time. The former was back in '99 and I was the buyer. The
latter was one year ago when he won an auction of mine. I believe,
from another e-mail I found, that C.E. may have dealt with him as
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out this article (http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/03/08/2357225.shtml)
on Slashdot, for those that aren't regular readers. It seems the FTC
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thing else. I use the Google toolbar in IE,
which now includes popup blocking.
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>Is anyone seeing spam on the swcollect list?
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ally wanted to know was about early personal computer
publishing arrangements. Sorry I didn't make that clearer. (And
thanks to Hugh for his feedback.)
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CGE has just announced that the '04 Expo will be in San Jose, not Las
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Leather Goddesses of Phobos (1986) = $480
Stationfall (1987) = $220
And again, you don't want to collect Zork and count subtitles.
Zork: The Great Underground Empire (1980) = $2900
Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz (1981) = $240
would be regional differences, but those would
theoretically even out (I think). Also, if a large stash of a
particular game were found, the rarity might go down.
A rarity list is certainly possible, however it would take a lot of
work by a dedicated gro
any suggestions please add them. If there are volunteers to
>actually manage such a database, good luck :) I'd actually consider
>starting a project like this but I'm already in the middle of two
>massive collector's guides. A third would likely kill me.
Mind if I ask what kind o
Dan Chisarick stated:
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>What'd be *incredibly* cool would be to get the grading scale and the
>rarity scale integrated into ebay :) They have drop-downs for lots of
>other things, why not this?
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R and not even fill half
of it up.
>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
ly 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" ones. So I that might change soon.)
Which CD-Rs are high quality and which are best avoided? And does it
really matter tha
urrent systems, and/or use
KVM switches to reduce the clutter?
Footnote: I was probably one of the last people to actually order one
of these drives from Gateway. I know they didn't offer them any more
when I was shopping for a replacement comp
was
very rude for them to give you negative feedback without e-mailing you
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I probably could get a lot more for them if I still had them now.
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OTOH, I understand NTSC 2600 games will play on PAL TVs, but the
colors will be wrong or it will revert to black and white.
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>in any other aspect. (neglecting financial value now)
Uh-oh. I better not tell you guys about the Comics Guaranty
Corporation (CGC; http://www.cgccomics.com/) and what they do to comic
books. I'll just mention that it
x27;t realize we were
losing access to messages as we went along. Glad I'm saving some of
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But I can tell you that both of them are darn rare.
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Marco Thorek stated:
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>"Lee K. Seitz" schrieb:
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>> Well, I *would* draw a distinction between *trading* games and
>> *buying* them. I dislike the thought of being taxed for non-cash
>> transactions.
>
>I tried to argue the same to a customs officer.
be interesting to have some Atari 2600 games from Brazil
if you knew where to find them, but I can't afford it right now
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some international items as gifts, I was uncomfortable doing it. I
have since decided not to, but I clearly state this in my auction
terms. Therefore, if a bidder doesn't like it, he doesn't have to
bid.
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another project) lack of time prevailed. I will eventually find my
collection of BTN (Birmingham Telecommunication News) and upload it to
his site. I can't believe only one issue seems to have made its way
to the Inter
e also talking a smaller population
of computer users back then that were into BBSs.)
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sure it was a PC game. I *think* I read about it
around the time EverQuest was gaining popularity.
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>Lee K. Seitz wrote:
>> What about games that actually intrude on real life? I remember
>> reading a description of an upcoming MMRTS that said the game (or
>> rather, your soldiers and citizens) could e-mail and/or page you if,
>> for i
y attacked. This was a few years ago
and I can't remember the name of it! Anybody know? I believe the
setting of each game was a fictional planet with technology somewhere
in the vicinity of WWII to present, but I may be wrong.
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>Need to know the legal crap
>involved with that, do we remit sales tax, how's all that work? Ditto for
>the dealers who are going to be selling.
I read at least one CGE wrap-up I read from someone working a table at
CGE who mentioned having to fill out
It was invitation
only (which I completely understand the reasons for), but it *would*
be cool to have something like that open to the public. I know there
are some classic computer (as opposed to video game) shows here and
there, but I'm not sure that they have many "
How well do you figure the manuals from the Ziploc age of software
distribution will hold up compared to the more professional packaging
of the mid-to-late '80s in the long run? Will the acid in those
photocopied pages eventually ruin them all? Would it be worth trying
to
her things) has as well. I
read an interview with either Dani or Jamie somewhere where she
discussed why it seemed game developers seemed to have more
inclination to have "gender reassignment." I think she attributed it
in part to creativity, but it's been a while so I may be
misreme
Dragonfire, all the games listed are either modern homebrews or
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In the computer realm, you can buy the source code to Empire directly
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How do you store
those extra pieces? Cardboard boxes? Plastic boxes (to avoid the
acidic cardboard)? Filing cabinets? What?
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not me. 8)
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ersonal/lorenblaney/. Source code is even
included, although it turns out it's written in XPL0, a language I was
not previously aware of. The sound routines are written in assembly.
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>Lee K. Seitz wrote:
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>> 8)
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>It was digitized, not synthesis. If you want more details, they differ by
>platform, so name the platform :)
Well, that explains a lot r
post I found in
r.g.v.c mentioning eBay was from Apr 1996.) I believe I had some
reservations about signing up as well. Not to mention not much money
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dering how they did the speech in Castle Wolfenstein.
8)
>No comments on the background items, ok? Its a storage room now.
But I was going to say you seem to have done your archiving just in
time. It looks like the Grim Reaper is coming after one of your
systems. 8)
e Wolfenstein manual, Wizardry (second scenario
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e for quite a while. I thought it had something to do
with my PC being a non-standard 20 MHz 286 clone, but when I got my
next computer (133 MHz Pentium), it did the same thing. At least now
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encryption algorithm. This made their statement practically
meaningless at the time.
I also seem to recall 4-Play's web page up with a countdown to when
the brute force method would be done. And when the time was up, they
still hadn't made an annou
original disk. That
means no converting booters to regular MS-DOS, too. I'm sure that's
exactly what you meant, but I thought I should state the obvious. 8)
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gs were, I rarely typed in most of
them. Usually when there was a bug, it was a typo on my part. What I
hated was when there'd be some PRINT statement with a bunch of spaces
in it. How do you tell how many there were? I'd usually end up
running the game and then adjusting the spacing after
re several full-page Microprose ads? Is there a photo
of an arcade Atari Pong machine in it? If so, I picked one of those
up a while back. Definitely very cool. Now, uh, where did I put it?
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>The First Quarter
>The Ultimate History of Video Games
The former was such a better and more clever title. I don't know why
they made him change it, but at least Mr. Kent probably got more
money out of it than he did self-publishing.
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Another book I bought very cheap at a thrift store and haven't even
glanced at is _Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer
Frontier_ from 1991. Not much game related, as far as I can tell.
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enough time for them all. 8)
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uessing most
are pirated games, although there's some original disks in it as well.
There's got to be over 100 of them, although I'd cull out some.
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they all say
that? Is it worth trying to sell on eBay? Or is anyone here
interested in it?
BTW, we have an impending financial crisis at my house. Would anyone
object to some "for sale" posts here? Nothing spectacular, I'm
afraid, but I'd rather sell stuff to you guys than
ing about PayPal; I don't have to share
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>anyone has interest, I'll put them online.
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n it, maybe I should send it in! 8)
* registration card
* Attn: DOS USERS card
* Reference card
* 1993 Activision Catalog
(I can't believe they didn't release River Raid and Kaboom! for
the Super Nintendo! There's screenshots and everything!)
* Oh, and th
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>Or should we just tease John? ;-)
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cational) game I convinced
my parents to buy for our //e. To me, you just don't get the full
experience without the unique sound of the Choplifter disk booting up.
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it, so never used it.
So now I've got a //e, //c, and IIgs. Just need a II+ and II (yeah,
right), and I'll have a complete collection. 8)
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>I still won't tell ;)) Talk about the opposite of "Mom threw it away"!!!
Tsk, tsk. You should listen to your mother, you know. 8) Luckily, I
come from a family of packrats, so hanging on to all my 2600 boxes
Feldhamer, Stuart stated:
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>So is anyone interested? I didn't want to post a full list here and spam
>uninterested parties.
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plain Zork are all still live trademarks. Zork Nemesis, however,
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