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From: c60a-zh@volga.Berkeley.EDU (A L L E N --LabA)
Subject: Re: How long do you stay interested?
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:27:36 GMT

In article <1992Aug15.223505.28890@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c60a-zg@volga.Berkeley.EDU (Martin Guerrero-LabA) writes:
>Being a game player, after a point, you start losing interest in certain
>games and on to new and better ones.
>
>For most of you out there, about how long does the software you buy
>keep you interested?  What games in particular (or type of games) keep
>you glued the longest, and what type or what particular game gets
>old pretty quickly?

Ultima games last forever. It's the kinda game that you'll become obsessed 
with; you'll hate the game, yet you MUST finish it!

>
>Does buying the game versus Pirating the game affect your overall interest
>in the game?
>

Weirdly enough, I lose interest in the games that I buy awfully fast...

ALLEN
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Aaarghh!! Laura Bow II help needed....
From: cctr120@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Brendon Wyber, C.S.C.)
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:35:59 +1200
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Howdy,

I am stuck in act 5 of Laura Bow II: the dagger of Ra. I keep getting
killed by the Hooded figure at the start of the act.

Please help....

Be seeing you,

Brendon Wyber                     Computer Services Centre,
b.wyber@csc.canterbury.ac.nz      University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

"Ph-nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."

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From: masten@beta.lanl.gov (David A. Masten)
Subject: Re: Flight sim news from CGW
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:13:29 GMT

In article <Bswpzy.GLE@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> ptran@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran) writes:
 
>No. 19 is a she?  

Yep.  Check the name Marisa Ong in the manual.  Says "No. 19".

>IMO, I think SH has spent enough time on Falcon 3.0, and certainly has
>the right to move on to their other sims (A-10, etc.)  The D patch is
>almost perfect, and I can't really think of too much that the E patch
>can improve.  They've done more than any other company would.

I agree with your first statement.  Although they sort of owed it to all
of us who payed $45+ to "beta test" their game back in as early as
December.  BUt they've worked (almost) enough on it to move on.  Not
sure we should tell thim this however!

But "almost perfect"?  Sorry, no way.  I can list a hundred things that
are still wrong or can be improved.  Wanna list? 

David Masten
masten@beta.lanl.gov
From: bx916@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ross W. Starkey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Wing Commander Cheat for unlimited shields?  Please?
Date: 20 Aug 92 00:27:35 GMT
Reply-To: bx916@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ross W. Starkey)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)


Is there some way of evening the odds in Wing Commander:  Secret Mission
Two?  I must have put twenty five hours into the flippin' thing in the
last three days and I am mad.  I cannot get past mission four (?), the
mission with the goddamned unsinkable carrier that jumps outsystem five
minutes after you show up (before you get a chance to destroy all of the
furball fighters).  I have tried everything and I just can't do it.  Then
I get to destroy a litter of Kilrathi pilots just outside the Tiger's
Claw, then the game ends and I get to see a nice video of Firekka in
chains and being loaded into slave ships.  I'm about ready to format the
damned SM2 disk and go back to Wing Commander Two.
I'm peeved.
Can someone please help?

-- 
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did you kill in battle,        peace - in peace sons bury fathers, but in war
Patroklos, when the gods       fathers bury sons.  It must have been heaven's
were calling deathward? HOMER  will that this should happen...      HERODOTUS
From: straube@fernuni-hagen.de (Michael Straube)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: MONKEY ISLAND Help!
Date: 13 Aug 92 09:23:03 GMT

You have to apply the red flowers to the meat and give the Result to
the dogs.

Michael

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From: chall@eco.twg.com (Charles Don Hall)
Subject: Re: Help on MM3
Organization: The Wollongong Group (East Coast Operations)
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 17:07:06 GMT

In <waayn7_@rpi.edu> losaccom@cs.rpi.edu (Mark LoSacco) writes:

>Hello,

>    I was hoping someone out there could tell me what the deal is
>with those levers in the caverns beneath Wildabar.  I pulled all
>of them despite their engraved warnings, was this a mistake?
>What is their function?  All I noticed were that pit traps
>appeared after I pulled them.  Is this all there is to it?

The levers also open some locked doors.

>   Another related question...   I found brother Delta (or
>whatever the brother's name is who is in the caverns beneath
>Wildabar).  He tells me to seek brother Zeta (or something)
>in the Arachnid cavern.  But in my to-do list it still says
>I need to find the brother beneath Wildabar.  So then when 
>I find the guy in Arachnid, he ignores me.

This is a bug that was in the earliest release of the program.
You can get a free upgrade by sending your disks to New World.

The clue that Zeta gives you is that Sea Shells are available
only on Day 99.

BTW, there are two other bugs that might give you trouble.
They both involve complicated math problems, and they were
typed in wrong, so you can never get the right answers. Don't
waste your time trying to solve them; just keep exploring 
other dungeons until you find the place where the answers
are given explicitly.

>   Has anyone else had this problem where the to-do list
>is not updated, so you are prevented from taking the next step?
>I don't know what I can do to get passed this problem.

>				-Mark


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From: garton@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Simon Garton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Falcon stuff
Date: 22 Aug 92 20:36:20 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

I bought Falcon a while back, but it seemed too sluggish on my
'386 33 so I shelved it for a while. Then with all the net
traffic I dusted it off and reinstalled it, and managed to get
thoroughly back into it.

a couple of quick questions : I thought I saved the
sobjects/objects thread but it disappeared. What was it ?

is there any way to get onto the compuserve flight forum thru
Internet ? Failing that, how do I get an account on Compuserve ?

Thanks

Simon
From: thompson@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Help with Batlin's questions (u7)
Date: 19 Aug 92 17:49:53 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Batlin is asking me two questions before I can join the Fellowship.
Something about how many bandits were surrounding this guy pictured
in the Book of the Fellowship and some other question (a number question).
I can't find the answers.  Anyone know what they are?

Thanks,


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From: cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP)
Subject: Robin Hood from Sierra
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:46:38 GMT

Quick Question: 
In Robin Hood (Sierra), how can I kiss Lady Marian?
I saw there is such a scene on the cover of the box.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: Wolf 3D Cannibalism
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 20:01:59 GMT

marshall@tfh.enet.dec.com (Hunting the Snark) writes:
>In article <rdippold.714151884@cancun>, rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes...
>->rhuffman@diana.cair.du.edu (Robert T. Huffman) writes:
>->>I just discovered that if you have really low health (less than 10%,
>->>perhaps?) you can eat the fresher skeletons (the ones with blood)
>->>to get an extra percentage point.  Gruesome!
>-> 
>->Well, you're not really eating them... you're just sucking up the
>->blood, that's all!  Much better, eh?

>Nope, you do "eat" the skeletons as well since they disappear along with the
>blood

Okay, how do you eat a skeleton?  Perhaps you suck the marrow out of
the bones as well?

-- 
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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 09:36:48 EDT
From: Carl Fago <CDF1@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Falcon 3 question..
 <roeschmf.714374410@craft.camp.clarkson.edu>

In article <roeschmf.714374410@craft.camp.clarkson.edu>,
roeschmf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Martin F. Roesch) says:

>cooper@cos.com (Gary Cooper) writes:
>>In <3641@sol.deakin.OZ.AU> rayb@deakin.OZ.AU (Ray Bradbury) writes:
>>>I'm currently considering buying Falcon 3.0, and I have a question..
>>>I was in the local computer store the other day, and the salesperson
>>>told me that a new version of Falcon 3.0 (being 3.1 he said) was going
>>>to be available soon.

>>The "d" patch is the latest - as usual, the salescritters get it
>>ALL wrong.....   He (it) was probably referring to Operation Fighting
>>Tiger, the campaign disk SH is putting out. (which will supposedly allow
>>you to fly the FSX)  I have SH's word that it will be out in the beginning
>>of August :>

Sorry, Gary, but the sales critter is exactly right!  Operation Fighting Tiger
is slated to have the latest version of Falcon included.  This version is
identified as 3.1 and not patch E.  There is a patch E that will be available
after OFT hits the streets.  It will be for those who don't want to spend the
extra money on OFT.

Though, I'm not sure if OFT is stand alone or not.

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From: cssnet@vms2.iscs.nus.sg (Postmaster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Hint wanted: FTL's Dungeon Master
Keywords: Dungeon, Level 2, Vault
Date: 18 Aug 92 05:47:00 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore Dept. of Computer Sc.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I'm currently playing FTL's Dungeon Master (Yes!, it's on the PC)
and am stuck at Level 2 of the Dungeon.

There's a place inside called the Vault, where I deposited 2 gold coins
to enter, after that, I find myself standing in front of a pit, with a door
just after the pit (I can see a button on the wall just next to the door,
which I presume would open the door and close the pit). The clue I get is
to "Cast your influence, Cast your Might", but I have absolutely no idea
what it is I can do here.

Any help would be appreciated.

-Raymond
sig coming up (watch this space!)
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From: X049RH@tamvm1.tamu.edu
Subject: HELP! Prophecy of the Shadow
Organization: Texas A&M University
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:04:47 GMT

I am have a few problems with this new game Prophecy of the Shadow.  I need the
password for the hideout of Robin One Eye and the rope the enter the pit.  I
would like to know if there is a hint or solution of this game on a FTP site?
Also I am running this game on a 386DX at 40 MHz, yet the scanned images run
very slow.  I want speed up the scanned images?  Either post here or send me a
EMAIL.  Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: msd4925@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Re: Wing Commander Anachronisms!
Reply-To: msd4925@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 17:12:39 GMT

Ultima 7 cheat help

I need money real bad. I heard the cheat key is alt 255 (on the keypad)
I tried it both before loading and at the beginning of the game, nothing
happens. How do i use the cheat key to get more gold??
thanks
Michael Dowds
From: kmartin@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Wolf/3d - where do I get it?
Date: 19 Aug 1992 13:54:24 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: phad.hsc.usc.edu



Is wofenstien 3d available via anon ftp?  If so, does anybody have
an ip address?

As I understand it, this games is shareware.  If I am mistaken, and
it is really commercial, does anybody know a vendor who will
sell it?

Thanks all
 
-- 
Kenneth J. Martin
Norris Medical Library -- University of Southern California
kmartin@phad.hsc.usc.edu
From: Malcolm_Mackay@mindlink.bc.ca (Malcolm Mackay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Prophecy of the Shadow help required (possible spoiler)
Date: 22 Aug 92 03:50:38 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

I've been stuck for 2 weeks near the end (I think) of Prophecy of the Shadow. I
would would sure appreciate some help.
sure appreciate some help.
I would like to know where I can find the keys which unlock the doors inside
the keep.

Thanks for any help.
From: jaffray@sunkist.berkeley.edu (Alan Jaffray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Robosport Anyone play it?
Date: 23 Aug 1992 08:09:01 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
NNTP-Posting-Host: sunkist.berkeley.edu

In article <mike.11.0@ftp.com> mike@ftp.com (Mike Chapman) writes:
>Anyone play this game by Maxis?  It looks like an interesting game,
>especially the multi=player modes.  It says it supports Lanman, Novell, and
>Netbios.  Any reviews??  

The game is probably interesting in multi-player modes, but is horribly
lame in one-player mode.  I lost my first game against the hardest setting
of the computer, and didn't lose anymore... thus I returned it.  It could
be interesting with two players via network or modem, but you need 
multiple copies for that.  (And if you're wondering about piracy, it has
a serial number check, so you would need to pirate two different copies.
Good luck.)  It's a cute little teams-of-robots war game, distinguished
by the fact that you control what the robots will do for the next 10-15
seconds during your turn and only then see what happens... you're fighting
blind, but with plenty of time to be clever.

-- Alan
From: estewar1@husc9.harvard.edu (Eric Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: AOTP and Stacker
Date: 18 Aug 92 02:21:55 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

In article <1992Aug17.160506.19664@mdd.comm.mot.com> ceng@mdd.comm.mot.com (Curtis Eng) writes:
>Has anybody out there been able to run AOTP while using Stacker?  I can't seem to
>get enough conventional memory and expanded memory at the same time.  If I load
>up the stacker device drivers into upper memory, in order to access the emulated
>expanded memory, I must use the command device=emm386.exe ram 360.  This gives me
>enough expanded memory but by using this manager, it takes away from upper memory
>so I can't load up my stacker device drivers into upper memory to free up
>conventional memory.  Clear as mud?  Right now, my only other option is to run
>out and buy a expanded memory board.  Too expensive.  Anybody else have some
>suggestions?  Thanks in advance.

I had this problem with WC2.  You can get back that 64k u.m. that you lose
when you use the "ram" switch with emm386 by modifying your config.sys like
so: device=emm386.exe frame=e000 ram 360

This works for most computers, except some true IBM PS/2's (Or so I hear.)
Some kind soul forgot to explain this in the MS-DOS user's guide, so I had
to go look it up in a book Microsoft put out to explain dos5...  This is a
little off the point, but why didn't they explain in english what all those
switches for emm386 do in english in the user's guide???  All they say is:
"P.S., You lose some upper memory with the ram switch" (Paraphrased.)
That was really useful, guys.  Well, flame off, I guess.  Dos5 is still a 
BIG improvement over 4.01, eh? ;-)

                                                 Eric
From: gsandhu@unixg.ubc.ca (Gary Sandhu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Ultima 6: what can you wish for at the well?
Date: 14 Aug 92 02:53:02 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

BTW, I'm referring to the well that's found in the museum just outside 
(south of) Lord British's castle, not the one in Paws.

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         Gary
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From: cavaden@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Karl Vaden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Nova 9, Killing 'Bosses'
Date: 19 Aug 92 21:48:00 GMT
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <66219@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt0040a@prism.gatech.EDU (Tom Sorensen) writes...
>In <1992Aug14.120704.675@mala.bc.ca> epp@mala.bc.ca (Lorne Epp) writes:
> 
>>In article <1992Aug14.083622.15068@crash>, uzun@crash.cts.com (Roger Uzun) writes:
>>> Can Someone tell me how to kill the Giant Lizard, at Sauria.
> 
>>You have to shoot into his mouth when he opens it to shoot you.
> 
>Easier said then done: I always mistimed it. Finally gave up on the game
>simply because of this level- you only get to make about 3 "mistakes" before
>your tank is destroyed. I can ace the first two levels, but this boss gets
>me every time.
>           Tom Sorensen
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>and possibly program, of all time." - Bill Gates, November, 1987
SPOILER
On the level before there is ALMOST always an invincibility
power module.  Find it and save it the lizard.  Once you activate
it you can sit and make some "mistakes" without getting hurt.

cavaden@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov
From: IO81144@MAINE.MAINE.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Cheat for Simcity?
Date: 18 Aug 92 17:39:08 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System

A friend of mine has received Simcity and am inquiring for him about any
cheats that anyone knows of.  I remember hearing about one a while ago about
receiving extra money.  This or any other cheats are welcome.  Posting is fine.
Oh, he isn't above using good strategy:)so if you have any hints you want to
share he'd probably have great use for them.  He seems to be having difficulty
building his city very big.  Thank you.
Brian Scheller
From: marc@constellation.sybase.com (I am Marc E. Strohwig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Full Detail in Falcon 3.0
Date: 10 Aug 92 15:21:27 GMT
	<BsI4FL.uy@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
	<1992Aug6.120149.20983@news.iastate.edu>
Organization: Sybase, Inc. (OLTP-RDBMS)
In-reply-to: wity@iastate.edu's message of 6 Aug 92 12:01:49 GMT

In article <1992Aug6.120149.20983@news.iastate.edu> wity@iastate.edu (Wity Ganda) writes:

>    In article <BsI4FL.uy@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> ptran@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran) writes:
>    >
>    >I asked SH whether it was possible to get 632K free, and they said
>    >yes, if you use QEMM and a few of its tricks.
>    >
>    >Phat Tran
> 
> 
>    No way, you won't get 632K CONVENTIONAL memory free with QEMM.  Qemm will only
>    give you about 620K memory free, but it will give you lots of high memory
>    which you can use to load lots of tsr programs (like mouse driver and etc).
>    Quarterdeck claims that Qemm can give you about 211K high ram.
> 
>    -Wity-


	Yes way... Using QEMM version 5.1 in combination with DOS 5.0
mem reports 637k as the largest loadable program size.  This includes
my Novell netware shell and mouse driver loaded high with LOADHI.

	Good luck...

	...But I see little or no difference in detail.  It always has
looked pretty good.  Even on my other machine which has just bare
minimum req'ed to run Falcon 3.0.

	Thanx,
		_Marc
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From: beuf@wpi.WPI.EDU (Richard J Fuller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: LucasFilm Games (graphic Adventure)
Date: 14 Aug 92 18:36:28 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute


the following games are the best:

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana JOnes and the Secret of Atlantis
The Adventures of the Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2: Le'Chuck's Revenge

the interface for these adventures is the best as well as the
humor.  Are there any more games like this in the works and if so.
When will they come out...

I am in deep need of a new game to play and I think that If it ame out
From: ooi@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Jeffrey K Ooi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Wing Commander Anachronisms! A biggie !!
Date: 22 Aug 92 00:09:33 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia

oh mannnnnnn

IT'S ONLY A GAME!!!

could you imagine the bloody game without sound...in a recession...and all these
budding programmers trying to make a game that'll give themselves a buck.

might as well throw out the 'ol soundblaster, silence sounds the same
on soundblaster,adlib,covox,disney,...and ...god forbid...even pc speaker!

ok then I might as well stir the porridge, how the hell does one fly at
700 kps (<- that's seconds!) ,slam head first into tiger's claw and
get shield damage and 1 armour point taken off?  I tried that in my Toyota
and by god there was more damage than that!

-----------> Jeff
From: bbs-garfield@jwt.UUCP (David Eison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Railroad Tycoon hints?
Keywords: games, railroad tycoon
Date: 15 Aug 92 06:21:50 GMT
Reply-To: bbs-garfield@jwt.UUCP
Organization: The Matrix

davida@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (David A. Andersen) writes:

> >learned that from reading the hint book.. Very cool!) <G>
> 
> hint book?  What hint book?
 
The official Guide To Sid Meir's Railroad Tycoon.  By Russel Sipe, 
Foreward by Sid Meier.  COMPUTE books, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1991. 
(So what if it's not proper biblio form... <G>)  An EXCELLENT book that 
all RR Tycoon fans should read.  It lists for $12.95 U.S., $16.50 Canada.

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