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From: lewis@oasys.dt.navy.mil (William Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Wolfenstein and Spear of Destiny with heroic neofascism
Date: 22 Dec 92 18:51:17 GMT
Reply-To: lewis@oasys.dt.navy.mil (William Lewis)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games, rob@cad4.lbl.gov (Robert J. McNamara) writes:
>In article <BzEtLH.9A3@iat.holonet.net> jwilbur@iat.holonet.net (Jay Wilbur) wr
>ites:
>->Originally WOLF3d was to have ALL of the game play of Castle Wolfenstein.
>->Area Weapons, dragging bodies, killing off .5 dead guards, bullet-proof
>->vests, etc.  In fact most of the code to do these operations are in the
>->engine.
>->
>->What we found was that when implemented these operations created such a
>->clumsy interface that the game was no longer fun.  At that point we made
>->the decision to make the game a shooter and knock-out all the stuff listed
>->above.
>
>Well, jeeze, howabout at least putting grenades back in, in a future
>release...:^)
>


I agree, how about it Jay, you're the man in the know.
I used to play this game on an apple computer back in 1981, with 2D
graphics and it was fun then, but I missed the grenade feature with
the new Wolf3d (I still like the game though).  I think the Secret Rooms
in Wolf3d pretty much take the place of the "treasure chests" in the
original.  But it was still fun having to shoot the locks off the chests
to get at what's inside.  I still think the treasure chests would be
a good addition.

just my $1.02 worth (inflation).

Bill (lewis@oasys.dt.navy.mil)  ( a registered owner of Wolf3d 1-6)
From: fjd@eskimo.com (Frederick Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Ultima 7: help with UMA manager needed.....
Date: 28 Dec 92 22:45:38 GMT
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-

primus@netcom.com (Robert keng) writes:


>Hi all:

>		I found out the hard way that Ultima 7 does not work with
>emm386.exe. I only use emm386 as an UMA manager, not for expanded memory. 
>How does that stinkin' proprietary XMS manager of theirs work? Anyone know of
>an alternative to using a boot disk or disable emm386 (and take away my 
>valuable UMA space)? Is there an UMA manager out there that would co-exist with
>Origin's lousy VooDoo XMS manager? Please, can someone out there help me?
>Thanx in advance...


>-Rob

>primus
>primus@netcom.com

I don't think there is any way to avoid disabling emm386. However,
there is something called a "UMB provider" that you can use to load stuff high.
There is one called umb_drvr that I used to load stuff high so that I 
could play Ultima 7. I believe that you can find a copy in the Simtel
archives. Be warned however, that umb_drvr expects you to indicate what
chipset you have. In addition, its command line arguments are fairly
hard to use. But it worked for me.

Fred
From: ifox@wam.umd.edu (Ira "Isa" Fox)
Subject: Monkey Island buying ship at 5K?
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:59:03 GMT

     Hello fellow gamer's,
I have just started playin' monkey island.  I got the 5000 credit from
the safe but how do I get the sales person to lower his price below
7450??
            Any help or hints would be most appreciated!

                             Ira
                           ifox@wam.umd.edu

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From: walker@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Scott Walker)
Subject: FAQ for this newsgroup?
Organization: DuPont Central Research & Development
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:50:38 GMT

Hello,
   Is there a FAQ for this news group?  I am a new PC user, and would like
to use some of the programs that have the .zip, .arc, and .zoo extensions,
but am not sure how to set that up.  Any help would be appreciated!

Happy Holidays,

******************************************************
Scott C. Walker
walkersc@esvax.dnet.dupont.com

+++The few opinions I express are not the opinions of my employer.
"What's settled down?  Settled down is you get married and then you buy a
house.  You can get a wood house, a plaster house or a stucco house.  
Oh, how you can get stucco!"  - David Lee Roth, on Rockline, stolen
from Groucho Marx.
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From: tross@digi.lonestar.org (Tony Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Microprose's Special Forces!
Date: 22 Dec 92 19:17:07 GMT
Organization: none

I just received Microprose's "Special Forces" games. It BITES, to say the
least. Maybe I was expecting to much after playing games like WOLF3D!
The action is 1980's arcade vintage. The mission preparation is OK, but 
after that, I had to erase it off of my hard disk. 

Very Disappointed
From: rpfaff@umiacs.umd.edu (Ray Pfaff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Stuck in Gobliiins underground.
Date: 3 Jan 93 17:16:55 GMT
Organization: UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

I'm pretty sure that this has been asked before, but I'm stuck in 
Gobliiins, in the level right after you talk to the wizard.  There
is a mask, a hunchback, and a coffin.  I've tried all of the 
permutaions I can think of.
From: tsornas@dec5.ulb.ac.be (Thierry Sornasse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: What are Mantis, Sea Rogue, Bargain and some others???
Date: 21 Dec 92 15:33:32 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Free University Brussels  - Belgium -  Department of Molecular Biology
Keywords: Mantis

Hi networker,

I just know Mantis and as I told you last week :" DO NOT BUY THIS GAME !!!".
I don't know how Microprose dare to sale this stuff, it is less achieve than a Beta version.

Good games

Merry Xmas

Thierry Sornasse


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From: mcmath@csb1.nlm.nih.gov (Chuck Totally Hair McMath)
Subject: Conq. of Camelot Catacombs - HELP
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Organization: MSD
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 15:01:26 GMT

SPOILERS!









I'm playing the EGA Sierra game Conquests of Camelot - Search for the
Grail.

I am currently stuck in the Catacombs beneath Jerusalem.  I have explored
it as well as I can, have gotten bit by the rat, given the elixir to
Galahad, and seen the small mummy with the necklace around its neck. 
However, I can't for the life of my figure out how to get the necklace!

I have: lodestone, apple, old bone.

I've tried throwing the bone, but they always break when hitting the floor.
 Is there some special technique required here, because it appears to me
that the bone is somehow connected with getting rid of the rats.

Give me big hints, but avoid spoilers if possible.

Thanks!

chuck

P.S. How close to the end of the game am I?  My scores are climbing
rapidly, but they aren't maxed out, and according to the game, my only hope
for getting rid of the rat poison is to find the Grail.

|- chuck mcmath - mcmath@csb1.nlm.nih.gov - MSD, Inc. --------------|
|- National Library of Medicine - National Institutes of Health ----|
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|- Disclaimer: I know nothing (but isn't that obvious?) ------------|
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From: query@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Samuel Green)
Subject: Future Wars (Spoilers) HELP ME... Please?!?
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 02:42:21 GMT

	I am stuck in the Croughton ship in the cockpit.  I finally
killed all of the croughtons, but, I think I am still missing something,
because:

	When I slip the magnetic card into the card reader, the room lights
up.  I then open the case, grab the garment and then use the caarment uon
the video camera, covering it up.  What else am I supposed tyo do?
	I have:
	The pendant
	RThe airgun
	The pill
	The lance
	The documents
	The magnetic casrd
	The key

	What am I missing?  Where do I get it?  HELP!
Please email the help, since i doubt many others have been stuck here...

	Sam




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From: eaglei@carina.unm.edu (Steve Hockemeier EECE)
Subject: Wiz7: just started 
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 16:35:42 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque


Hey folks!!

	I'm playin' this game and basically, I've just started. Is there 
a walkthrough or someting? Or perhaps you can answer some specific questions.

	In New City, I can't seem to solve some of these riddles:

	1. the color scheme to free the prisoner.
	2. the museum puzzles
	3. how to get into umpani detache
	4. how to use the wafer door in Forbidden door
	5. anything else you have to add to this first town.

Thanks!!
Steve.
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From: Damon_Harper@mindlink.bc.ca (Damon Harper)
Subject: Star Control ][ info needed...
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:47:41 GMT

  I am looking for the Aqua Helix device -- the last piece I need to repair
the Ultron -- in Star Control ][... I learned that it was somewhere in
Thraddash space, but I have looked everywhere and cannot find it, and the
Thraddash themselves seem to know nothing of it (or at least are not
volunteering any information).  Where is the bloody thing?  I may have
written down the location wrong, but I honestly don't think so... and none of
my saved games go back quite far enough for me to get the info again.  I
REALLY don't want to start over now (!)
Thanks,
                                                                -DamoN HarpeR
From: "steven baldassarra" <steven.baldassarra@canrem.com>
Subject: falcon 3.0: scud hunt
Reply-To: "steven baldassarra" <steven.baldassarra@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 22 Dec 92 00:27:58 EST

  To: Robert Keng

RK>  Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
RK> Message-ID: <1992Dec18.223832.6488@netcom.com>
RK>    Subject: Falcon 3.0: Scud hunts in Kuwait?!?

RK>   Just wondering: has anyone *ever* been assigned a Scud hunt
RK>mission in the Kuwait theater? Or did SH decide that Scud hunts are best
RK>suited for A-10s? Actually, I have *never* encountered mobile Scud launchers
RK>nor have I ever destroyed one. Any ideas?!?

  There are Scud-launchers on the ground in Iraqi Scud-launching areas. However,
I have never been assigned to the Great Scud Hunt, nor have I smoked an enemy
AWACS plane. However, we can destroy Guideline-launchers, SAM radars, and Hinds
in the Kuriles (Falcon 3.01).
  BTW, have you seen the two new Falcon 3.0 books NOT written by P Bonanni? I
wonder what's inside the disk that comes with each of the two different books?

RK>-Rob


RK>primus
RK>primus@netcom.com

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From: mktjadx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Jeff A. Dilcher)
Subject: B17 Flying Fortress owners... DO YOU LIKE IT?
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 03:47:44 GMT


I was thinking of getting this for my dad for Christmas, and just wondered
if anyone would like to share any comments, pro or con, on the game.  My
dad liked the WW1 flying game, by, I believe, the same publishers.

Thanks,
Jeff

-- 
 
  Jeffrey A. Dilcher                                   Atlanta, GA, USA
mktjadx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu                             Telephone 404-266-1585
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From: isc10192@nusunix1.nus.sg (KOH KHANG WEE)
Subject: Comanche Bug
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 02:36:23 GMT


Anyone got 'WALLS' in this game ? MAX overkill : comanche ? These walls
are so irritating ! Is this a bug ?
   
--
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	Jerry Koh 	a.k.a. 		FLAT^^TOP
		 isc10192@nusunix.nus.sg
	     national university of singapore
	     D.     I. 	    S.	    C.	   S.
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From: VEAL@utkvm1.utk.edu (David Veal)
Subject: Wizardry 7 Questions
Keywords: Wizardry Dark Savant Gorrors
Organization: University of Tennessee Division of Continuing Education
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:47:36 GMT


Spoilers----




















1.  What is necessary to get into the Hall of the Past on the Gorrors level 
of the Crypt?

2.  What is the combination for the Second Crusader Test?  (None of the 
one's the clues would indicate work.)


------------------------------------------------------------------------
David Veal               University of Tennessee Div. of Cont. Education
                         Information Services Group
PA146008@utkvm1.utk.edu  (Mail to VEAL@utkvm1.utk.edu will bounce.)
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From: chrisp@wimsey.bc.ca (Chris Phillips)
Subject: Found a NEW GAME on wuarchive!
Organization: Wimsey Information Services
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 00:38:39 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

There is a new game on wuarchive called Ken's Labrinth. It GREAT just like
Wolf 3d but (IMHO) a little better. 
	
	SITE: wuarchive.wustl.edu
        DIR:  pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS
	FILE: lab3d.zip

	  Check it out
            Chris	
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
Subject: Re: Comanche Bug
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 14:30:17 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.023623.9221@nuscc.nus.sg> isc10192@nusunix1.nus.sg (KOH KHANG WEE) writes:
>
>Anyone got 'WALLS' in this game ? MAX overkill : comanche ? These walls
>are so irritating ! Is this a bug ?



	Please be more specific.  There are canyon walls, yeah, and
	other things--but nothing that you can't fly over if you turn
	the vollective all the way up.

	I'm on the final mission (not training, the real ones), so I think
	most of the bugs would have been apparent by now.

	Also, if you mean something _weird_, please describe your setup.

>   
>--
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>	Jerry Koh 	a.k.a. 		FLAT^^TOP
>		 isc10192@nusunix.nus.sg
>	     national university of singapore
>	     D.     I. 	    S.	    C.	   S.
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From: v923137@vms.ucc.okstate.edu
Subject: FOR SALE: STAR CONTROL 2, $30 inc. shipping
Organization: Oklahoma State University Computer Center
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 06:55:43 GMT


Brand new Star Control II (bought on 12-26-92), solved
over the weekend/this week.  Mint condition, 3 1/2" high
density disks.  All original packaging, manuals, registration
cards, box, and map in perfect condition.  The game took me
about 35 hours to solve, the SuperMelee is a good arcade game
worth the price of the game all by itself.

First $30 gets it.  Money order or cashier's check only please.
Leave e-mail here or at : worley@a.cs.okstate.edu

-Jason Worley

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From: marshall@NEBULA.SSD.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM (Bob Marshall)
Subject: Re: Laura Bow - Dagger of Amon Ra Help needed
Reply-To: marshall@NEBULA.SSD.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 06:25:17 GMT

In article <connie.725755583@zus.let.vu.nl>, connie@zus.let.vu.nl (Connie Veugen) writes:
>Help at the beginning of act 5 i get hit over the head by a person in
>a black robe. I cannot escape. What did I miss? I locked the snake up
>took the grapes and the smelling salts but as soon as I leave Dr Myklos
>office act 5 starts. BTW how do I open the grate in the laboratory? And
>how do I open the door in the armour room?

Me, too! I'm stuck at the same place. I tried to send a message to Connie
to have her share the responses she gets, but my E-mail to her bounced.
Thus this post. So, if you respond to Connie via E-mail, include me, too.

Bob Marshall
marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com

=============================================================================
Bob Marshall                     \\     "Women aren't as smart as they
Lockheed Missiles & Space Co.     \\     think they are; they think we
Sunnyvale, CA                      \\    men know a lot more than we
marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com\\   really do."
"I tell the truth 'cept when I lie"  \\     - Tim the Toolman
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From: hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Final Mechwarrior Call.
Date: 23 Dec 92 23:06:37 GMT
Organization: negligable

In article <1992Dec22.081407.2624@vax1.mankato.msus.edu> vxc15931@vax1.mankato.msus.edu writes:
>Can you tell me then (E-Mail preferred) the company that sells MechWarrior, and
>how much they are selling it?  Considering all the commotion going on (and I
>love virtual reality games), I'm interested in getting one.  
>
>Besides, what could beat the sensation of blowing up an enemy Mech while
>waiting for another computer to finish solving 100 non-linear equations using a
>Newton-Raphson's algorithm?  Well, flying the F-117 stealth fighter simulator
>is one thing.

If you want virtual reality, sign up w/ GEnie and get into the
Multi-Player BattleTech (IBM Mechwarrior on-line & interactive)!
(warning: currently it's in beta, so you do have to put up with
some bugs......)

In answer to the question though, Mechwarrior is by Activision,
and currently sold in a 3-back with Crescent Hawk's Inception and
Crescent Hawk's Revenge.


		-Richard Hartman
		hartman@ulogic.COM

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From: "joe kuroda" <joe.kuroda@canrem.com>
Subject: kq6 help
Reply-To: "joe kuroda" <joe.kuroda@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 3 Jan 93 18:14:46 EST



In an article <1993Jan3.165335.7574@wam.umd.edu>
               krin@wam.umd.edu (Karen E. King (Eglinton)) writes:

KEHi. I need help with the following puzzles:

O.K.

KE        1. Getting swamp ooze - don't know how to provoke stick
          with rotten tomato

There is his brother, stump in the log at the side of the path - let 
him talking about the stick and with the rotten tomato - he will do the 
job of getting you the swamp ooze. 
 
KE        2. Getting past the living gate in Realm of the Dead

I suppose that this is the one with the puzzle and if you don't get it 
he will eat you up, right ?
If you can remember, back at the bookworm place on the Isle of Wonder,
there was a black widow whose web a piece of paper had stuck.  Well 
this is the point where you could have used it (there was a word 
written on the paper - LOVE). Just type the letters and you should be 
o.k. (although if I can recall, I have to use Hand/TALK Icon to get to 
him and if I used WALK icon and got too close, I simply got swallowed
up).  BTW I hope you've picked up the skeleton key .....

KEThanks!

You are welcome anytime. 

               ==> Joe <==

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From: walker@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Scott Walker)
Subject: Lemmings in B&W
Organization: DuPont Central Research & Development
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:57:26 GMT

Happy Holidays,
    I am thinking of buying my father the game Lemmings.  He has an PC-
compatible portable (Compaq) that runs in black and white.  First off, can
Lemmings run in B&W?  Can you see it well enough?  Is there anything I should
know in particular about his portable before I buy the game?

If not Lemmings, can anyone suggest a strategy-type, thinking kind of game,
a la Lemmings and 3 in Three?

Thank you very much!

Scott
******************************************************
Scott C. Walker
walkersc@esvax.dnet.dupont.com

+++The few opinions I express are not the opinions of my employer.
"What's settled down?  Settled down is you get married and then you buy a
house.  You can get a wood house, a plaster house or a stucco house.  
Oh, how you can get stucco!"  - David Lee Roth, on Rockline, stolen
from Groucho Marx.
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From: mike.mcaulay@spacebbs.com (Mike Mcaulay) 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: u7 cheats
Date: 2 Jan 93 18:04:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: SPACE BBS - Menlo Park, CA - 10 Lines + 4gB - 415-323-4193
Reply-To: mike.mcaulay@spacebbs.com (Mike Mcaulay) 


bn924@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes:

-> BTW, i have tries typing Ultima7 ABCD[ALT 255]
-> but my program quits and i get a funky message. any suggestion?

Create a batch file which contains the line: Ultima7 ABCDX<return> then
edit the file with a hex editor and replace the 'X' with hex FF.  I had
the same problem and this fixed it nicely.

M.
                  
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From: rhc52134@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard)
Subject: HELP: Indy 4
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 04:38:41 GMT

How can I get Sophia out of the jail in the maze? And how many pieces do I
need to get the Atlantean machine in the canal to work, I got four. But I
suppose I need five, what is the first piece and where can I get it? I have
searched everywhere and still can't find another. Please give me the answer,
thank you.

Richard
P.S. Please e-mail me if you think the answer may be a spoiler to someone
     else.
From: dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: WC2--War is Hell
Date: 22 Dec 92 02:40:45 GMT
Organization: Doug's House of Disco

In article <1992Dec17.115055.210@janus.arc.ab.ca> morgan@arc.ab.ca (Sean Morgan) writes:
>                             copyright 1992
:)

>As we approached the strike force I ordered my wing men to strike as I swung 
>around 180 degrees and hit my afterburners.  My men fought with valor and 
>took out three enemy ships before, one by one, I heard their chilling voices
>announce the inevitable ejections. 

If only *I* would automatically eject right before getting my ass blown off ...

>As I locked torpedoes and eased toward the first capital ship, its main guns 
>let fly. I dodged a salvo and began another run after losing lock.  This 
>time I was not so lucky.
>
>My forward section took a direct hit, devastating shields and armor as well 
>as destroying target lock.

Then my eyes strayed to the keyboard (why, you might ask, do we have a keyboard
on a fighter.  Well, the reason is to play Rogue, of course ...) to the
two keys ... ALT and INSERT ... both covered in a glass shield that said
"IN CASE OF EMERGENCY BREAK GLASS".  Well, I break the glass and hit the keys.
The enemy ship goes up in a pyrotechnic explosing at 320x200x256.

I wax nostalgic ... it is fortunate that my wingmen died -- I could never
explain such power to them ... I would have to kill them if they had seen
such power ...
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