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From: harrisca@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (Chuck Harrison)
Subject: Re: Galactix Shareware game
Reply-To: harrisca@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 21:46:14 GMT

In article <cee1.702849148@Isis.MsState.Edu>, cee1@ra.msstate.edu (Charles Evans) writes:
>chore@neumann.une.oz.au (Pursuit of Happiness) writes:
>
>
>>I haven't seen any discussion about this game yet, which i thought was abit
>>unusual becuase it is sucha completely brilliant game, 

Well, it is very impressive, but as a game it is very simple.
On my FIRST try I made it to level 84, it only took me 3 tries to kill the 
command ship on level 100.  It might be difficult with the keyboard, but using 
a joystick (and my roommates agree) it is trivial.

	The graphics and sound are great, and I was very impressed, but the 
game play let me down.

>I downloaded it, with no errors. However, upon trying it on TWO computers
>It did notihgn but black the screen out.
>It would do the opening:
>Galactix V1.00 [or whatever]
>Loading graphics...
>then in a minute the screen was blank and that was it.
>Here is what I have tried it on [handy profs' computers]:
>IBM PS/2 50Z 396/16SX 4MB ram, VGA whatever it has.
>and
>DELL 286/20 VGA Plus Monitor, 1 MB ram.
>neither worked.. anyone have any problems beside me?
>chuck

	I ran it on a Hyudai 286 12 mhz with 1 MB ram ,VGA and a Soundblaster
However, my girlfriend couldn't get it to run on a Zenith 286 with 1MB, VGA & SB
she got all of the opening screens (with the speech), but it locked up at the
main menu.   

						Chuck 
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From: deb@loni.ucla.edu (Debjoti Sensharma)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Re: Alternate Reality vs EOBxx (Neither)
Summary: Role Playing on Computer vs Reality
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:12:56 GMT
Organization: UCLA Laboratory of Neuroimaging

In article <1992Apr15.162515.201468@uctvax.uct.ac.za> vhspet01@uctvax.uct.ac.za writes:

>YAWN! You computerised RPGers still seem to enjoy nothing better
>than a Dungeon Crawl. What ever happened to imagination? Try the real world
>version sometime. No graphics, but with a good DM, a lot more fun!

Unfortuneately, like many DM's I wish I could actively PARTICPATE in my OWN
adventures rather than stand at the sidelines!

Debjoti
From: hodges@unssun.nevada.edu (Marcus Hodges)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Twilight 2000
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:45:34 GMT
Reply-To: hodges@unssun.UUCP (Marcus Hodges)
Organization: University of Nevada-Reno

I just saw the game Twilight 2000 in one of the stores here, and thought
that it looked pretty good.  But before I buy it, I was wondering if anyone
had played it and had any good or bad things to say about it.

Thanks

Marcus

"I apologize for calling your wife a bloated warthog.  Heh-heh-heh."
                                     -- Connor MacLeod
From: chore@neumann.une.oz.au (Pursuit of Happiness,712160,,)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Re: Galactix Shareware game
Date: 9 Apr 92 01:33:27 GMT
Reply-To: chore@neumann.une.oz.au
Originator: chore@neumann.une.oz.au

From article <614@grivel.une.oz.au>, by scavanag@neumann.une.oz.au (Steven Cavanagh):
> From article <613@grivel.une.oz.au>, by chore@neumann.une.oz.au (Pursuit of Happiness):
>> In article <611@grivel.une.oz.au>, chore@neumann.une.oz.au (Pursuit of Happiness) writes:
>> 
>> /pub/msdos/uploads
> 
> That's /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS you stupid clot!!!

Is that a blood clot, or a dirt clot (i know it's dirt clod, but that's all
i've got at such short notice.....

Anyway, you are the one who told me the dir. in the first place, that is 
after i had the game of course, in fact i told YOU about the damn game, so
don;t go calling me a clot you Clod.

-Chris
From: edwardsc@CPSC.UCALGARY.CA (Christopher Edwards)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Falcon 3.0
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:22:39 GMT

I have a question about changing targets in Falcon 3.0
Supposedly, to clear the radar lock you press the 'x' key.
However this only seems to work when in autopilot mode.
In 'normal' mode, the x key does the exact same thing as pressing
the 't' key, it just runs through all of the targets.
Has this happened to anyone else?
Also how do you target aircraft that are far away (like 40+ miles)?
If there are aircraft within the 10mile range then, even if you are
presently in 80mile mode, pressing the 't' key will first target 
the closest aircraft, kicking you out of 80mil mode and into
10mile, so you have to wait untl the far away aircraft get MUCH closer
before you are able to target them.
Any hints on how to get around this.
I've got patch C.

Anyone know if the game keeps track of enemy forces.
Ex. if the Iraqi airforce has 600 planes and you shoot down 600
will they still keep coming in infinite numbers?

Chris Edwardsc

AT: edwardsc@cpsc.ucalgary.ca



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From: mattg@leland.Stanford.EDU (Matthew Rene Gonzalez)
Subject: Conan the Cimmerian
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: rec.games.misc
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 08:22:12 GMT

Has anyone played this to the end?  I've destroyed the wizard's heart and
can't figure out how to get out of the castle and, I assume, end the
game.  Am I missing something?

Email would be grand.

Matt
From: Lauren_Banerd@mindlink.bc.ca (Lauren Banerd)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Re: Soundblaster (not pro) hangs with Digital I/O
Date: 17 Apr 92 04:42:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: mindlink.11475
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada

"Your problem has been discussed many times before in this group and solutions
are available.  Please check if FAQ has it. "

I, too have this problem with the Soundblaster running on 386 DX-33 but I am
new to this group.  Where can I get the solutions you mention?  What is FAQ?
Please advise.
From: dondaing@beam.Princeton.EDU (Donald D. Aingworth)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Re: UW finished/review/observations
Date: 5 Apr 92 18:03:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: Princeto.1992Apr5.180333.6731
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU

Some questions, actually:  (fair spoilers, read only if you've finished)


1)  What is the use of the lump of gold/the blue mineral.  I got them
but I never used them.

2)  What is the meaning of the clue 'one must be more careful to dot
one's i's than to cross one's t's'?  I never figured this out.

3)  Does anyone ever tell you to use the flute to get the cup?  I
figured it out out of frustration, but I don't remember ever being told
to use it.

4)  Did anyone ever manage to lift the anti-magic on level 7?  Now that
I think about it, I do remember a crystal ball that might have been the
one in question, but I never really bothered.

5)  Can you ever get the goblin king to talk to you aafter you kill the
spider?  I never did, but I stopped coming up to level 1 fairly quickly.

These are the ones that I remember.  Maybe I will come up with more
later.

don.
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From: bushman@ssd.kodak.com (Thomas G. Bushman 726-0803)
Subject: Re: Another Lifeless Planet
Originator: bushman@munsell
Organization: Eastman Kodak
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 13:06:36 GMT

From the letters it looks like

obnoxious
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From: rdunkle@aal.itd.umich.edu (R. M. Dunkle)
Subject: Couple of neat UW findings (like Superballs)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 00:58:35 EDT
Organization: Campus Computing Sites, University of Michigan
Originator: rdunkle@clapton.aal.itd.umich.edu


	I suppose this isn't as neat as the rubber balls (*is* there a
use for those later?), but -

	I was wandering around among some red and green lizardmen on level
3, jumped off a ledge...and stayed "high"! I couldn't figure it out, until
I walked enough - and fell off the lizardman I was standing on! He looked
annoyed, though he didn't fight me...

	2. Try one of those green mushrooms...whoo! Pretty neat. I dunno if
you have to drink first, or anything, but I thought my game had screwed up,
for a while there. :)

	3. Shak does not practice very good hygiene - I was able to *fish*
in his "bathtub"! Ugh!
-- 
	Brian Dunkle                  |          "Dig Zebrox!"
	rdunkle@aal.itd.umich.edu <---|---> bd3501@emunix.emich.edu
	------------------------------|----------------------------
        <I wish I knew some cool pro-bicycling tag-lines, but.....>
From: volkoffb@nextnet.ccs.csus.edu (Brian Volkoff)
Subject: UW: where'd Judy go?.. and looking for key
Originator: volkoffb@nextnet
Organization: California State University Sacramento
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 07:39:09 GMT

*SPOILERS*



I've pretty much cleaned all the monsters out of the different levels,
but I seem to have lots still to do.  I killed the whats-his-name-evil-
wizard, freed the girl, and mapped all of the 8th level (I think).
I've gone back up the stairs in the NW corner to get the piece of the
key.  I also chanted the mantra at a shrine to get another piece of
the key.  I'm missing the 3rd piece though.  I've run around looking
for it, but haven't found it lying around.  I'm wondering if I need
to talk to someone to get it.. I haven't found anyone new to talk to
though.

I got the picture for Judy, but when I went back later, she wasn't
there.  I'm worried I might have knocked her off though.  When I 
first met her, I decided it would be neat to see what would happened
if she were pushed into the lava.  She was always standing there
when I'd run by.  She wasn't there this time though.  What is the
reward she will give me, and is it critical to the game?

On the Seer level, Dr. Owl was looking for his assistant Murgo (I
presume a familiar or something).  I haven't yet found anyone with 
that name.  I was worried Murgo might be a Mongbat that I diced
on sight.

I recall a post recently that said they buried Garamon.  I remember
finding his empty grave, but not being told by anyone that I'd need
to bury him.  The fighter on the 8th level that was locked up said
that his bones were to the south with those of a knight.  There are
a lot of bones to the south though (with armor nearby).  Can anyone
point me to which set of bones are his?

For those knowing, overall, how far am I from finishing?  I'm 
missing many of the talismans.. the bottle of wine, the taper,
and the cup.  Oh, is the mute prisoner the one who stole the 
taper, and if so, did he hide it nearby?
-- 
Brian Volkoff
  volkoffb@nextnet.ccs.csus.edu
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From: white@watsci.uwaterloo.ca (Brad White)
Subject: UW - some help please
Originator: white@watsci.waterloo.edu
Organization: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 03:38:41 GMT

	Hello.  I would appreciate some help please.
	Where does one get port for the rot-worm stew?  I found some on
level 2 but drank it by mistake.  (I know the humans had some too but i also
drank that :(()  Am i screwed?
	Level 2:
    How does one get the password from the King?  I have killed the monster
in the mine, but even after I give him some money he just says thanks !! 
	Level 1:
   the room with the 4 levers, 6 positions - what is the answer?  too many
possibilities !!  What happen when you solve the puzzle??
 Thanks in advance
Brad

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From: grayku@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject: Need "Prince of Persia" tips
Organization: University of Lowell
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 04:29:25 GMT


Please help me,
    I only know the basic commands to Prince Of Persia - moving and 
fighting, the very basic stuff. I hear theres a command for skipping up
to higher levels, etc. Can someone out here please summarize all the
Prince of Persia commands you know, including mode commands, etc.
    Also, I'm stuck on level four, where the yellow guard stands at a 
ledge and pushes you on the knife pit when you jump over to him. Can anyone
tell me the moves it takes to get at this guard?
    Can anyone out there give me anymore hints on this game? Thank you
very much.
                            - Kurt at U.Mass. Lowell
   p.s. I don't read this newsgroup often - could you please Email me
       your replies? Thanx.


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From: comptec90071@camins.camosun.bc.ca
Subject: 3rd key
Organization: Camosun College
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 01:18:56 GMT

Where do I find the 3rd part of the key? I've got one in the NW corner, got 
the one from Judy, and I believe I need to pray at the shrine to get the 3rd
part. Thing is, when I type INSAHN at the shrine, it doesn't do anything.
Or do I get the 3rd part of the key elsewhere?

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From: jamesn@fraser.sfu.ca (James Devlan Nicholson)
Subject: Help with Elvira
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 18:11:20 GMT


I am in need of help with Elvira I.  Somebody please help me !!

I've got five of the keys.  I can't get the sixth.  I'm pretty sure
its in the tunnel behind the dumbwaiter.  I've done the glowing pride
spell and lit up the tunnel.  But Elvira just can't find anything.
The manual says that doing the glowing pride a second time will make
thinks brighter, but I can't find the ingrediants to get the spell
a second time.  If this is the case, where is there more flame flower
(Thats the only one I'm short of I think)

Thanks,
Devlan
From: rlee@bgsu.edu (Bob Lee)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Re: Down with copy protection (correction)
Date: 14 Apr 92 14:04:08 GMT
Organization: Bowling Green State Univ.

There is an error in the site name I put in my previous posting.

The real site name is ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
                      ^

-BOB
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From: sackett@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael Scott Zimmerman)
Subject: EOB II need some help!
Keywords:  EOB II
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 02:12:48 GMT

I am stuck on the 2nd dungeon level.  



In the North east section of the dungoen after the 2 darkmoon key locks
there is an intersection with press plates to the North, west and east.
I notice when they have been stepped on , they stay down unitl stepped
on again.  Is there any significance to this section of the dungoen?

Also, I cant find my way down to the third dungoen level.

Can Someone Please help me?

Mike   sackett@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

Thanks in advance.
:
From: bise@girtab.usc.edu (Daniel W. Bise)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Re: U7: Can you believe it? A question already??
Date: 17 Apr 1992 12:04:49 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: girtab.usc.edu

In article <TOMW.92Apr17094318@latchup.ucsb.edu> tomw@bears.ece.ucsb.edu writes:
>In article <kusc6mINNng@girtab.usc.edu>, bise@girtab.usc.edu (Daniel W. Bise) writes:

Barely a Spoiler follows:

^L

>> Going by my handy-dandy cloth map, the latitude and longitude answers
>> seem to be odd numbers, yet the slider/parser lets you repsond with 
>> numbers that are multiples of 5.
>
>All the numbers end in a zero.  It's sort of confusing.

Thanks Tom. It came to me after I spent some time squinting at the
map numbers in odd ways. :-) My brain must've been in one of those
modes that blocks the cognition of even the simplest things. I
hate it when that happens!

Now I get to sit back, stop posting and watch the articles flow from
everyone who's been playing the game for the last 48 hours...
straight! They must be half done with the game by now.

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Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
From: bo511@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James P. Norris)
Subject: Re: Alternate Reality vs EOBxx
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 02:19:39 GMT


Philip Price did not write the Dungeon from Microsoft. I heard
rumors though that Philip continued to develop the series and 
finished his own version of the Dungeon. I would love to have it
if he did. (I still have my trusty 8-bit and use it occasionally).
Anyone know the truth to all this?
P.S. I would also like a list of commands for the Atari 8-bit City
game editor.
--
From: Peteroo@cup.portal.com (Peter Niel Olafson)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Re: UW demo sleeping and other problems [possible spoiler]
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 07:48:33 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

You need to find a bedroll to sleep, then use it.
From: perhj@fenris.dhhalden.no (Per Henrik Johansen)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Romance of the 3 Kingdoms II
Date: 7 Apr 92 10:10:54 GMT
Organization: Ostfold Regional College

I was just wondering if this game has been ported to the Atari ST?

Per Henrik
perhj@fenris.dhhalden.no
From: sms@cs.utexas.edu (Stephen Mark Sanderson)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: U7 : Trinsic password
Date: 17 Apr 1992 12:37:14 -0500
Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: saltillo.cs.utexas.edu

BTW, the password to get out of Trinsic is "Blackbird"....grin
-- 
This is a .signature virus!  I'm infecting you NOW, so kiss your disk goodbye!
							sms@cs.utexas.edu
From: daneman@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Michael J. Daneman)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Start Trek 25th for trade
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:15:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: pasteur.1992Apr13.201513.404
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley

I would like to trade Star Trek 25th Aniversary Game for
Ultima Underworld.

If interested mail to daneman@cory.berkeley.edu

-Mike.
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
From: jennifer@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jennifer Schlickbernd)
Subject: Re: Global Conquest - I got the last copy
Reply-To: jennifer@jato.jpl.nasa.gov
Organization: Jet Propulsion Lab - Pasadena, CA
Distribution: "na"
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:21:19 GMT

In order to get the multiplayer options to work if you want more than
two human players, you'll need to get a new copy of the Special Driver
#1.  It's on Ozark's playtester BBS; unfortunately Microprose has not
given permission for Ozark to distribute it to anyone else other than
testers, so I cannot make it available via ftp or email.  Also, there
is a known bug when you try to save and restore a game anywhere from
turns 40-70, you can get crashes and freezups.  They are working on this
bug now.

-- 
Jennifer Schlickbernd                     Jet Propulsion Laboratory
jennifer@jato.jpl.nasa.gov or elroy!jato!jennifer@csvax.caltech.edu
72466.3413@compuserve.com  Voice:(818) 354-1167
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From: ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene)
Subject: UW key to anhk room
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 02:51:38 GMT


	I've explored everywhere on the first level except the area where
  you jump across a chasm to a massive door.  The anhk room is beyond it.
  Does anyone know where the key for it is??  

						G.Greene










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From: karabin@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (Eric Karabin)
Subject: IBM GAMES FOR TRADE OR SALE
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 18:15:37 GMT


I have the following games I would like to trade or sell...


Police Quest III

Eye of the Beholder II


I am looking for Civilization, Elvira, Elvira II, Wizardry VI, SimAnt, 
Ultima Underworld, Wing Commander II, or possibly others along those lines.



				Eric Karabin
				karabin@cis.ohio-state.edu


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From: wanderer@leland.Stanford.EDU (Anthony William Cannon)
Subject: Re: Soundblaster Pro won't fit!
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 03:13:11 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.020249.17835@nic.unh.edu> ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene) writes:
>In article <1992Apr15.002938.29119@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, tgt40502@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Tim Tsui) writes:
>> I just recently got a Soundblaster Pro, but it won't fit in my
>> computer!  I have a Gateway 486 - 33 Hz ISA desktop, and I
>> was wondering if any other Gateway owners had a similar problem.
>> It seems to be a few millimeters out of place, and if forced in
>> it appears to put a lot of stress on the card and pushes the     
>> cardholder outwards.  This makes it impossible to screw in.
>> Do I have a messed up case, or does everyone just force the card
>> in?  Please help - Thanx!
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
>
>	This happened to me also, it went into the slot very hard, and I could
>  not screw the card in.  It doesn't seem to effect it though, it works great.
>
>							G.Greene
   Same here.  I have a Gateway 386/33 and although I had to pound on the
   card for a few minutes with a hammer so it would stop popping out, I
   haven't had any problems (just kidding about he hammer).  On mine, the
   hole is about 3/4 the length of its diameter off, so i can't put the
   screw in either (shrug).
From: dauria@csa.bu.edu (David DAuria)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: MM3
Date: 11 Apr 92 19:16:22 GMT
Reply-To: dauria@csa.bu.edu (David DAuria,degree)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA


Possible Spoilers to follow
read at your own risk

I've been having a couple of problems in this game so here
they are

1  Where is the Hologram sequence card 003?  I've found the other 5
so what dungeon is this one in and how did I miss it?(Can you lose
stuff if a Heirling had it when you dismissed him?)

2  What the hell do I have to do to get Princess Trueberry out
of the hut?(I assume this will help me with the unicorn too)

3  Are there any other places in the game to make large sums
of money?  Lord Bruno is costing me an arm and a leg.

4  Finally,  What's the trick to blackwind's dungeon?  I just get
warped around like crazy.  I read somewhere about staying on the
path to not get warped but I have no idea what it meant.


Thanks.  E-mail or post,  which ever is easier
David D'Auria
dauria@csa.bu.edu
From: marms@sandia.uucp (Mike Arms)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: UW_DEMO - two versions?
Date: 6 Apr 92 22:26:35 GMT
Organization: Dimsdale Brothers Extortion Agency

Not to alarm anyone, but could someone explain why we have two copies of
UW_DEMO.EXE that are very different in size?

From ftp.ulowell.edu in /msdos/Games/Demos:
-rw-r--r--  1 100      0         1195767 Mar 18 20:15 uw_demo.exe

From wuarchive.wustl.edu in /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/demos:
-rw-rw-r--  1 3007     archive   1853175 Mar 27 09:39 uw_demo.exe

Why is the one at wuarchive so much larger (600k)?  Are they really the
same?  Note: the times on the files are just their respective upload
times and do not reflect the date for the contents.  I ask, of course,
due to the worry over viruses and trojans.  That's a lot of extra room.
Please, if anyone can answer this, please post soon.  Thanks.

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