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From: tef@acsu.buffalo.edu (Tom Frisinger)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Nead a walkthrough for Lost Files of Sherlock Homes PLEASE!!!!
Date: 11 Oct 92 00:01:20 GMT
Organization: UB

Hello,
	I really hate to admit it but I'm really stuck in the 
Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes.  Could anyone be so kind as to
direct me to a walkthrough, or possibly mail me a copy?
	I would very much like that.  That you for you time.
		
					Tom
					tef@acsu.buffalo.edu
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From: gh1r+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gaurang Hirpara)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Moebius help!
Date: 12 Oct 92 02:11:50 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Senior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


 Regarding the amulet: What you need to do is use the spirit spell (from
    the panda hairs). That way, once the sun goes down, you can cast the 
    spirit spell and follow the demon around (you're invisible). At dawn,
    the demon icon is replaced by a skull face (that's the Minstrel). If
    you pounce on him there (or perhaps even if you're just in the square
    next to him) he'll play some tunes to rejuvenate you (i.e. get your
    stats back to max) and give you the amulet. To actually get across 
    the chasm requires some condor feathers. you have to attack the condor
    while it's nesting. the feathers are use in the wereform spell to 
    change yourself into a condor and fly over to the astral gate. 

--dan
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Opinions? Vee don't need no stinkin' opinions.
From: dwelling@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (David Wellinghoff)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Ultima Uderworld beginner
Summary: help
Keywords: UW
Date: 13 Oct 92 02:32:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bw1GEx.qt
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana


	I just started Ultima Underworld and it looks like a really cool 
	games so far. I can't figure out how to cast spells or anything. If
	anyone has any beginners hints or can help me please email me. 
	thanks.
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From: prj@pyuxf.uucp (25574-jayne)
Subject: Falcon OFT problems
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 12:21:06 GMT
Keywords: Falcon OFT

I'm posting this to rec.games.misc because my local postnews doesn't
seem to know what comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.or.whatever is.  I've
noticed a few postings about problems running OFT on a 386/20 with
4 meg.  I had the same trouble, i.e.  the game just hangs with a
blank screen at startup.  Someone said the problem cleared up when
he disabled his Logitech mouse.  I went back to the store to get
the game again (I had returned it) and edited my startup files. No
luck.  Then I just removed every TSR I didn't absolutely need and
the game worked.  I haven't yet tried to isolate the one that got me,
but it may not matter.  I think it was just graphics.com and doskey
that I disabled.  I'm using Stacker on the Falcon disk, BTW.
My impression is that the game is a tad slower, but I bought Falcon
partly to provoke myself into buying a 486, so...

	Paul Jayne

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From: brl@kopasker.is (Bjorgvin Runar Leifsson)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc,comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: The battle against Gothmenes in Pools of Darkness
Date: 11 Oct 92 22:11:17 GMT
Reply-To: brl@kopasker.is (Bjorgvin Runar Leifsson)
Followup-To: rec.games.misc
Organization: Kopasker Primary, Iceland

Hi everybody who has solved Pools of Darkness.
I finished off Gothmenes on novice level today, and I strongly suspect that
I MUST be missing something.  Is there no way to avoid loosing all spells
before the final battle against Gothmens himself?  I found use both for the
horn and the ring.  What is the amulet from Tanatel good for?

Thanks in advance,

Bjorgvin R. Leifsson
brl@kopasker.is
From: riegel@almaden.ibm.com (Jeff Riegel)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Help needed in The Pawn
Date: 13 Oct 92 18:02:07 GMT
Reply-To: riegel@almaden.ibm.com (Jeff Riegel)
Organization: IBM Almaden Research Center

I need help in The Pawn.  I can't figure out how to make a light source.
I've gotten the red, green, and blue.  I've been inside the ice tower
and found the prism, but I don't know what to do with it.

Also, is it necessary to kill the adventurer with the chest Kronos gives
you?

While experimenting, I wandered through the dark areas past the Cavemouth
into a lighted area and found a key which I used to free the princess.  Is
there any point in doing this?  She just runs away and I don't know what
to do from there.

If someone can give me some hints or knows where I could ftp a walkthrough
or other info., I'd appreciate it.  Thanks in advance.


-Jeff Riegel
riegel@almaden.ibm.com
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Distribution: world
From: Johnathan_Lee@deluge.thegrid.com
Organization: The Grid, Westchester, NY USA
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 16:46:00 EST
Subject: Birthstone answers

     To all stuck in Kyrandia,
Birthstones are Sunstone, a blue rock, a yellow rock and a ruby.


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From: lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick)
Subject: Re: Ultima Uderworld beginner
Keywords: UW
Organization: CSIRO Division of Mineral Products, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 03:51:34 GMT

garton@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Simon Garton) writes:

>In article <Bw1GEx.qt@news.cso.uiuc.edu> dwelling@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (David Wellinghoff) writes:
>>
>>	I just started Ultima Underworld and it looks like a really cool 
>>	games so far. I can't figure out how to cast spells or anything. If
>>	anyone has any beginners hints or can help me please email me. 
>>	thanks.

>Big hint !

>BUY THE F**KING GAME AND READ THE F**KING MANUAL !

>ok ?

>Simon (getting really pissed off with all these idiots copying
>the games and then begging on the net for instructions. Can't
>wait till we see a post for help with Falcon3 ....

Does anyone have a spoiler for the demo Underworld game
that allows you to wander the first level.

Yes I am one of these idiots who copies demo games, and then
begs the net for instructions.  (That is what the net is for).
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From: rda464v@nella12.cc.monash.edu.au (S. Oxley)
Subject: Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers get all the girls
Summary: Help me!
Organization: Monash University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 02:03:46 GMT

Can someone please give the solution for the island where time runs backwards
in Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers get al the girls. I have made it into the house
but am now stuck.

Thanks in advance

Craig McMahon
rda464v@nellads.cc.monash.edu.au

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From: ross@kaos.b11.ingr.com (Ross Erickson)
Subject: Re: Wayne Gretzky 3
Reply-To: ross@kaos.b11.ingr.com
Organization: Intergraph Corporation
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 15:18:41 GMT

>	Does anyone know when this game is to be released???  I've
>	seen some screen shots and it looks like it will blow away
>	WGHII.  Any info would be appreaciated.

It will be available starting late this week.
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From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: new Sierra games can't be COPYd to hard disk
Date: 9 Oct 92 19:08:23 GMT
Reply-To: andrew@frip.wv.tek.com
Organization: Tektronix Color Printers, Wilsonville, Oregon

Perhaps this will save somebody else some grief.  We used to be able to
install a Sierra game (on PC) by copying all files from floppy disks to
a directory, then running INSTALL in that directory, then hitting ESC
when it asked what hard disk to install to.  This kept it from writing
configuration info to the first floppy, which let me keep the
distribution disks write-locked at all times.  (OK, so I'm paranoid.)

I bought the VGA version of Quest for Glory I and one of the floppy
disks was damaged.  I tenderly coaxed the files off the disk and tried
the above sequence.  When I run the result, it changes the mouse cursor
to a picture of a 3.5" floppy drive, then spends the rest of eternity
accessing the hard disk.

I send a message to Sierra tech support (76004.2143@CompuServe.COM) and
got the enclosed reply.

  -=- Andrew Klossner  (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
                       (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)

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From: Sierra On-Line <76004.2143@CompuServe.COM>
To: <andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM>
Subject: can't run VGA Quest for Glory I
Message-Id: <921009184728_76004.2143_CHN28-1@CompuServe.COM>

Hi Andrew.

You can't manually copy files to the hard drive with our new games like you
could the older games.  You need to run the INSTALL utility.

If your disks were damaged, please call our direct customer service number
at 1-800-SIERRA-5  for a new set of disks.

If you can't run the INSTALL utility for some other reason than a damaged
disk please let me know so I can send you manual installation instructions.

        -Rob /Sierra On-Line
From: walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Re: Civilization assistance
Date: 13 Oct 92 00:45:41 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

drazil@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Devin Ben-Hur) writes:

>In article <BvtBvM.Hro@news.cso.uiuc.edu> walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk) writes:
>>The "horde" strategy won't work on ver 3 or 4.  Also on 3/4, food production
>>becomes more important (because you have to make more elvi) so you can't
>>afford to make forests.

>Nonsense!  The horde strategy works just fine with v.03 or v.04 which
>is what I play with.  I recently completed a horde strategy emp. game
>where I won in 300something *BC*.  If you don't believe me, I saved the
>game one move before the end; I could mail you an UUENCODED copy of it :-D

>Not that much changed with v.03.  Some bugs were fixed, transports
>don't make frowny faces, barracks got more expensive, cities have to be
>larger than 5 to make specialists.  Nothing that makes the horde strategy
>impossible.

>As to the develop and dominate strategy, elvii aren't neccessary; markets,
>banks, temples, cathedrals, factories and zillions of caravans are the key.
>I rarely require elvii and I have no problem planting forests all over the
>place.  If you'd like to see an example of a well done game in this mold,


Are you playing at Emp. 7 civs, ver 4  (the game is too easy at a lower level..
actually, it's too easy at that level).  In ver 3/4 when you are a despot
and you get ~15 cities, you start getting very angry angry people in
even small cities, and you can even have an angry person in a size 1 city.
Even though I win 9 out of 10 times at this level, I'm still willing
to listen to how you do this (if you've got something new, post it. I've
tried to use the horde strategy on this level and can only win about
2 out of 10 games with it with most of the losing empires collapsing 
under their own weight because of unhappy people).


					Todd Walk
					walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
From: s915074@otto (Vitor TEN)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: S101 Help !!!!!
Date: 14 Oct 92 06:07:28 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: otto.bf.rmit.oz.au

Does any one know what you are supposed to do one the island of lost soles
or how to get the urn down from the tree.

Thanks in advance
s915074@otto.bf.rmit.oz.au

Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
From: M22367@mwvm.mitre.org
Subject: Re: S101 Help !!!!!
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean VA 22102
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:49:49 GMT

In article <s915074.719042848@otto>
s915074@otto (Vitor TEN) writes:
 
>
>Does any one know what you are supposed to do one the island of lost soles
>or how to get the urn down from the tree.
>
>Thanks in advance
>s915074@otto.bf.rmit.oz.au
>
There is a 'Restore' type spell - I believe you get it from the library at the
university.  Go to the library and use the spell you got at the frat party.
 
Use the spell to restore all the people to their original states - horrible
puns abound.  The car in front of the house is held up by what? "Restore Jack".
 
It's not an urn in a tree - it's urn-nest => Ernest. :-o
 
Etcetera.  Many of them are almost too painful to bear. You'll know when you're
done cuz the grateful citizens will reward you with a spell box.
 
Save often.
 
  - Mike
From: grellier@ufrima.imag.fr (GRELLIER thierry)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: wanted GTHOR and COMP'OTH on atari st
Date: 16 Oct 92 09:01:56 GMT
Organization: Univeristy of Grenoble


	These two programs are the best othello, and they are in PD.
	The trouble is if I know them, I don't know were I can find
	them. So, if someone can help me, just send me pieces of
	information by e-mail at grellier@turing.imag.fr .

	Thanks

	Thierry

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From: hting@hardy.u.washington.edu (Harrison Ting)
Subject: Bard Tale I editors???
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:18:52 GMT




Is there an character editor for Bard Tale I(ya, I) out there? (for IBM)
if so, where?

Thankx
q
From: jpa@dash.udev.cdc.com (jp ahmann x4271)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Re: Falcon OFT problems
Date: 9 Oct 92 16:25:15 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

25574-jayne (prj@pyuxf.uucp) wrote:
: he disabled his Logitech mouse.  I went back to the store to get
: the game again (I had returned it) and edited my startup files. No
: luck.  Then I just removed every TSR I didn't absolutely need and
: the game worked.  I haven't yet tried to isolate the one that got me,


 Yes, that was me.... I got OFT to run by rem'ing out my Logitech driver.
 but OFT is a pain without a mouse IMO.  Actually I just resolved my mouse
 problem !!!!  I pulled out my logitech bus card and replaced my bus mouse
 with a serial mouse (I had one laying around). Lo and behold, it worked.

 It appears as if I had some problems with HW conflicts.  I was hinted at
 by the fact that warm boots (ctl-alt-del) with my mouse loaded before
 the boot, but not after, also caused OFT to hang.  Reset or power cycle
 worked. Oh, BTW, I tried all available IRQs on the mouse card. 

 Hardware I suspect a conflict with are :  Adaptec SCSI adapter, or
 AdLIb card.  Also running Stacker in EMS on my non-SCSI drives.

 If you are having this hang, I would also suggest commenting out your
 TSRs and drivers, very methodically. Cold Boot between changes. Seems
 like Falcon 3.01 is a touchy beast. I had no other problems with
 any other SW.

 Hope this can help some of you out. 

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  w: (612) 482-4271          Arden Hills, Mn 55126
From: xeons!valsidur.elvenking@midiline.la.ca.us (Valsidur Elvenking) 
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: EOB I
Date: 7 Oct 92 21:07:00 GMT
Reply-To: xeons!valsidur.elvenking@midiline.la.ca.us (Valsidur Elvenking) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Xeon's Magic Shop BBS - Canyon Country - CA - 805-250-0627

I'm tuck in the 2nd level of Eye of the Beholder II!  I assume that I
need to find a key to open the door on the far North-East of the map.

I hit the button on in the room at the far North-West that changes the
walls, but have found no secret room or area that might house the key.

(Unfortunately, I don't have access to an ftp site to acquire the maps.)

Thanks for any help anybody might be able to spare me.
                                                                                                   
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From: ah@moolah.fml.tuwien.ac.at (Andreas Haleger)
Subject: Bard's Tale II: Can't solve snare in Destiny Stone
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 11:57:10 GMT


Hello World,
I know BDII is a very old game, but maybe there are some people out there  
who can remember or even look into their papers.
Here my problem:

I enter the snare.

There are two messages on the wall:
- Only he of which we sing can in good faith make use the ring.
- When danger oft a variable can split an old path.

Then I come to a magic mouth which asks:
Of old portent the song will read; name the hands which did the deed.
The correct answer is STORM FISTS, but you get this information later, so  
I enter something wrong.

I am teleported to a room with darkness fields. There is another magic  
mouth which tells a long story and mentions GALE and STORM FISTS.
It then says: His name is all I truly ask. The correct answer is ZEN  
MASTER (I don't know where you get this name from, I know it because I  
browsed through the hex listing).
Your reward is a Zen Master in your party.

I go now to next magic mouth (ten fields east, 2 fields up), say GALE and  
receive "The Ring" which I give to the Zen Master.

Then I return to the point where I entered the snare, go through the door  
three fields up and one field west and come to a message that says:
He's buts a corpse without a past until you call his name...ARKAST !

Now I answer STORM FISTS to the first magic mouth and from now on nothing  
happens any more. There is no way out.

What I should mention: Around the snare (i.e. to the north, west and east)  
there are a lot of white fields I can't explore.

Please help me, it was such a long way to the Destiny Stone.
From: iks@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Ivan K. Samuelson)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Help on Hugos House of Horrors!
Date: 14 Oct 92 13:51:38 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana

I'm not sure if this is the place to ask for help. I'm stuck in Hugo's
House of Horrors (Episode 1). I figure I need the rubber bung for the
boat to plug the hole up, but how do I get it? Everytime I try to get it
in the professor's lab, it says I'm not close enough.

Also, am I supposed to let Igor do all the crazy things he does with
my molecular structure? :-)

Thanks a bundle,
	Ivan

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From: marek@nmsu.edu (Marek)
Subject: new games
Organization: Computing Research Lab
Distribution: rec.games.misc
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 19:53:06 GMT

Hiya
Does anyone have infoon the release dates of the following games?

Dark Sun: Shattered Lands (SSI)
ULTIMA VII Part Two: Dagger Isle  (ORIGIN)

thanks
Marek

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From: M22367@mwvm.mitre.org
Subject: Re: Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers get all the girls
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean VA 22102
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 16:44:50 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.020346.7315@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
rda464v@nella12.cc.monash.edu.au (S. Oxley) writes:
 
>
>Can someone please give the solution for the island where time runs backwards
>in Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers get al the girls. I have made it into the house
>but am now stuck.
>
Once you've made it into the house (by jumping out of the window), you spend
several turns "waiting".  Check the prompt - it's the same as if you just did
a "wait".  The monsters go back downstairs and you (going backwards) get into
the mudbath, get out of the next one, get into the next one, get out of the
first one, get into the first one, go upstairs.  After that (before that?) it
depends on whether you're in nasty mode or not.  If you're in nasty mode, you
have sex with the three different prostitutes in sequence. (I don't know what
happens in the non-nasty mode, :-) but I've been told you play chess with a
nun).  Then you exit the house, knock on the door, read the sign, and go up
the path (backwards).
 
Save frequently.
 
- Mike
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From: atristan@ucru1.ucr.edu (Andrew Tristan)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Ultima Underworld: lightening up the view
Date: 13 Oct 92 20:16:17 GMT
Followup-To: rec.games.misc
Organization: University of California, Riverside

Last summer somebody posted a way to lighten up the view in Ultima 
Underworld.  It involved renaming some files.  I think that they
were named 'shades.*' or 'shade.*', but I can't remember exactly.

Anyone out there remember how to do this?
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From: parnes@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Gary Parnes)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Ultima Stygian Abyss Help Needed
Date: 12 Oct 92 05:56:52 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Hi!  I'm near the end of the Stygian abyss (I suppose), and I'm kinda
stuck.  Could somebody give me some pointers for the following
problems:

1)  How do I make the final "key".  I have the Truth, Love and Courage
components, but based on the final portal's keyhole shape, it looks
like I have to combine them.  How can this be accomplished (or who
should I talk to for some direction?  I can't remember anybody
mentioning this key this

2) Where is the blade portion of Sword Caliburn?  Can't find anybody
who can tell me where it is (I DID find the hilt part, tho).

3) Where's the Cup of Wonder?  I've used the mantra, and still can't
find it where I THINK it should be located.

4) Where can one find the Freedom ("EX") and the Knowledge ("WIS")
rune?

All help or pointers appreciated.  Thanks in advance...

						Gary Parnes

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From: stdnt163@whscdp.whs.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Re: Need help with Sierra games
Date: 9 Oct 92 17:28:04 CST
Organization: Washington HS, Milwaukee, WI




	Help!  I need some serious help with Robin Hood: Conquests of the
Longbow, and Police Quest, the VGA version.  I just need to know how to get
started in Robin Hood, mainly how I contact Marian after that weird dream.  And
on Police Quest VGA, I need to know how to do the drug bust in Bert's Park.  If
anybody out there can help me, just post a message and hopefully I'll catch it. 
Thanks.

					-the Phantom Sonic Fart
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