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From: dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Pirating and Economics
Date: 5 Nov 92 05:44:35 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b63519.student.cwru.edu

In article <1992Nov4.164155.5664@Princeton.EDU> tao@ginger.princeton.edu (Terry Tao) writes:
>I note here that Microsoft software is much harder to pirate seeing the
>size of manuals for e.g. Microsoft word, and the Microsoft support that is
>invaluable (especially with Microsoft C, but that's another matter) 

Slight problem with this argument...manuals are becoming rather unimportant. 
I have Ami Pro 3.0 and I think I've opened the manual less than five times. 
The online help contains everything I need. It is this way with many (most?) 
Windows programs.

Of course the tech support side of the argument still holds.

Non sequitur -- DRI's tech support is the _best_!!!!!!
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| Damien Neil | dpn2@po.cwru.edu | Case Western Reserve University |
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From: mgb5528@cc.utah.edu (Beck, Michael Gregory)
Subject: Re: Prince Of Persia The End
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
Date:  5 Nov 1992 12:10 MST  

In article <5NOV199212543865@trentu.ca>, tchambers@trentu.ca (Terrence Chambers) writes...
{Does anyone out there know how to defeat the Grand Vizer in the last (?) 
{level.  Its the level where the entire ceiling caves in and the Vizer is up 
{top...blocking the door mechanism.  I have tried to get the Vizer to go 
{over the edge of the platform but have had no success.  Does anyone know 
{how to destroy this miserable guy?!
{ 

It's just practice, practice, practice.  Eventually you do get him.  He is the 
toughest opponent of them all.  Just kill him.

{----------------------------------------------------------------------------
{   "birds can fly and fish can swim  |  tchambers@trentu.ca
{    but on this planet               |  Terrence Chambers
{    where do i fit in?"              |  Trent University
{           -Shakespears Sister       |  Peterborough, ON CANADA
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From: bhv@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (Bronis Vidugiris)
Subject: Re: Wizardry 6:Bane - How much longer?
Organization: Motorola, CCR&D, CORP, Schaumburg, IL
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:49:23 GMT

In article <720966541snx@cursci.demon.co.uk> andrew@cursci.demon.co.uk (Andrew Trotman) writes:
)How much more is there to Bane of the Cosmic Forge?  I have completed all
)the other Wizardry games up to this one and I'm just curious as to how much
)more of Bane there is to complete?
)
)I have mapped the river STYX.  I have the book of sirens and the water
)wings.  I have found the red X on the wall. I have mapped very little of
)the land areas that beach onto the river STYX, but I do know my way back
)to the main gate.
)
)
)Someone, please tell me I am almost finished.  I'm getting a little bored
)and I want to move on to Wizardry 7.

You are starting to get close to the end.  However, you still have a fair
distance to go.  Call it 3/4 of the way through in terms of mapping.  
You haven't run into the really *nasty* creatures Bane has to offer - yet.

The game should get more interesting pretty soon, with some tough encounters
to stretch your party to its limits.

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From: fud@leland.Stanford.EDU (Fred Lide Cheng)
Subject: Help needed with Wizarydry 7
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 00:49:13 GMT

HI,  I'm inside Gorn castle but I can't seem to find the king.  I found
a room marked "Throne Room" (or something like that) but I don't have
the key for it.  I've been down to the guard barracks but can't get
farther than that either.

Is there something I missed somewhere?  was I supposed to get a key from
that Gorn commander or something?

any help would be appreciated.

fred

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From: wunner@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Guenter Wunner)
Subject: Re: Copying 5.25 -> 3.5 (Was: rendezvous with rama)
Organization: TAT (Theoretical Astrophysics Tuebingen), U. of Tuebingen, FRG
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:49:13 GMT

>In article <zlsiida.314@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:

>[stuff deleted]

>>Only it's on 5" and she has only 3".  She thought she'd be able to do a 
>>COPY *.* or a DISKCOPY - but of course it's copy protected.

>[...]

Why not use VGACOPY? It's a German program that can format a 3.5 "
disk to 1.2 MB and also copy a 5.25 " disk to 3.5 ". Perhaps it can
crack the protection.
Hope this helps.
	Lukas.

        *** Lukas Wunner, Hustadtring 143, 4630 Bochum, West-Germany ***
      *** lukas@trillian.tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de / lukas@134.147.160.21 ***
    *** "To err is human, but to really fuck things up takes a computer" ***
From: ooprb@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Subject: CIVedit V0.8 Offset list update wanted...
Reply-To: ooprb@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Organization: Montana State University
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:26:02 GMT

Hello Civ Players,

I have written an easy to use editor for the CIVIL#.SVE files
that will allow the user to change any of the following items 
for any of the civilizations in the game:
	Leaders Name
	Civilization Plural name
	Civilization Singular name 
	Money	
	Tax, Lux, Science rates
	Light Bulbs
	Technologies
	Population
	Year
	Player

(Idea: Somebody said if you set the Light Bulbs higher than
the next advance you dont get the next technology.  Set the
computer players higher so they stay technology imbeciles.)

Now, what I would like to do is add Unit and City editing.
However, I need more information about the offsets int he
CIVIL#.SVE file to do so.  I would like to be able to
edit the cities production, food, resources, buildings, etc.
I would also like change the information about units; attack,
defense, movement, etc...

Please, if you have any information on this please send it
to me...


	Rocky Brown  -  ooprb@trex.oscs.montana.edu


P.S.  Has anyone tried to write a MAP editor for civ yet??
      (Maybe I'll try that next...) 	
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From: masten@beta.lanl.gov (David A. Masten)
Subject: Re: F15III Demo won't unzip!
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:40:45 GMT

In article <Nov06.183342.52071@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> lam@CS.ColoState.EDU (mark lam) writes:
 
>I've tried downloading the F15IIIpdemo.zip file from wuarchive a bunch of times
>using the correct proceedure (setting type to bin, etc.) and nothing seems to
>work.  Dave's post said that the file should be about 750+KB.  The one I got
>was only 75+KB.  Could someone please upload another copy of this?  Thanks!

The problem seems to be with wuarchive.  I tried to upload it again, but
the site responds with something about being out of space.

I uploaded it to ftp.ulowell.edu, but the sys admin has to check it out
then put it in the appropriate subdirectory.  Last I checked, it wasn't
there yet.

Sorry, I can't email it to anyone as I don't have enough allocated space
in my account to make a uuencoded copy.
From: ronr@ateami2.EBay.Sun.COM (RON RICHARDSON - SUN MICROSYSTEMS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: HELP--CRACKS AND PCTOOLS!!!
Date: 10 Nov 1992 18:12:46 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: ronr@ateami2.EBay.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: ateami2.ebay.sun.com

I also had a problem with SID and resorted to booting DOS 3.1 on a
floppy and coping wc.exe and norton.exe to the floppy and using
norton to change wc.exe.  This worked fine.

Ron

In article 10492@Princeton.EDU, clements@shine.Princeton.EDU (John Brinckerhoff Clements) writes:
|In article <1992Nov9.134323.9865@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> jtf9s@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU () writes:
|>In article <1992Nov8.212746.8513@iscsvax.uni.edu> bantz7128@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
|>>I am trying to use some game cracks that require you to use PCtools to search a
|>>file for a particular string.  You must then change it.  The problem is when I
|>>enter the search string say for example:
|>>5C OC 74 33 9A from the Start.exe file on Secret of the Silver Blades, I get a
|>>
|>	In a similar vein, my version of PCTOOLS has a file viewer and
|>a file editor, two separate systems.  In the viewer, I can find the string
|>and I am given a byte offset.  Can't edit in the viewer and can't search
|
|  I'm no hacker king, but here's my solution.  My pctools etc. will only
|search for a character string, not a hex string, so to locate the byte
|string I use "SID" (for DR DOS--if you use MSDOS, "DEBUG" will work).
|Now don't choke: you _do_ have these programs.  They are included in the
|basic DOS software kit along with FDISK and FORMAT and the like.  Check
|your local documentation, but either one should do the trick.  Use this
|tool to locate the hex string.
|
|  Now the problem is to change it.  Unfortunately, I was unable to
|modify the executable and save it directly from SID, because it didn't
|write an executable header page to disk.  Perhaps there is a way around
|this, but I couldn't find it.  So, what I had to do is to use the
|pctools edit function to change it.  The miserable part of _this_ is,
|pctools reads from disk, and thus counts using sector notation, rather
|than the XXXX:XXXX notation that the intel processors use.
|
|  Side note: I think somebody at Intel should burn eternally for the
|decision to retain backward compatibility here.
|
|  Anyhow: to convert XXXX:XXXX format to sector format, I believe you
|have to add the hex numbers like this: given the number aaaa:bbbb, the
|absolute address = aaaa0 + bbbb (in other words, the a's are just
|shifted one hex digit to the right and added to the b's).  I think that
|a sector contains 512 bytes, so the rightmost 9 bits of this absolute
|address are going to be the offset within the sector, and the remaining
|bits to the left are going to be the sector.  One final note: the actual
|sector number is going to be one (maybe two?) greater than the
|calculated value, because on disk there is an extra sector of header.
|
|  Then just modify it.  
|
|  If anyone has an easier way, I'm all ears.
|
|john clements
|21, scruff-ola
|
|




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From: sbgros@skcla.monsanto.com
Subject: XMAS LEMMINGS DYING
Organization: Searle, Skokie, IL
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:36:00 GMT

MY LEMMINGS ARE FALLING IN THE DEMO XMAS VERSION.
ON THE LAST LEVEL (COROSION)  I CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO SAVE ALL THE 
LEMMINGS.  I CAN GET 1 OF THEM IN THERE BUT THATS IT.
COULD SOMEONE SEND ME A FEW POINTERS.  

THANKS

SCOTT

SBGROS@MONSANTO.COM

" NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS !!!!"
From: Scott.Marks@launchpad.unc.edu (Scott Marks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Lemmings Unprotect!
Date: 9 Nov 92 23:55:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: samba.1992Nov9.235557.14241
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service

Here's an unprotect that worked for my version of lemmings:

VGALEMMI.EXE   32785     7-19-91   11:19a

There is a hidden file called "Russell.dat"
in the Lemmings sub-directory
(I believe it's created the first time you run the pgm.) 
 
1) set the first byte of the file to "02"
   (this byte is a counter
    for the key disk check)
 
2) remove the "Hidden" file attribute
 
3) add the "Read Only" file attribute
   (so that the counter isn't updated)
 

I hope this works for everyone who needs it.

Scott...

E-mail:  Scott.Marks@bbs.oit.unc.edu
          
    

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From: hoefer4739@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Strike Commander within weeks? (Really.)
Date: 10 Nov 92 10:26:49 -0600
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

In article <Bx9GHA.I8@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, mfleig@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Mark W. Fleig) writes:
> Here's something I didn't know. While sauntering through my local
> Software Etc. store, they received a huge shipment of new products,
> which piqued my curiosity. "Don't suppose Strike Commander is in
> there?" I asked. "I'll look at the invoice," quoth he.
> 
> Well, turns out it wasn't, which surprised him. He said he expected it
> by Nov. 4th, and they should be special delivering his shipment soon.
> "Definitely within the next week or two," was his comment, and he
> sounded fairly confident. Is the ethereal SC truly that close to
> shipping this soon? I have my doubts, since usually the Midwest is the
> last to see new products, particularly we Hoosiers... but he mentioned
> Software Etc. has been making some new deals directly with the
> companies to get earlier shipments. Hmmmm... If anybody makes a
> sighting, definetly share.
> 
> -mark
> 
> -- 
> ,----------------------------. "Therefore, make peace with your god, whatever
> : Mark Fleig                  \  you conceive him to be. Hairy thunderer, or
> : mfleig@silver.ucs.indiana.edu\  cosmic muffin. With all its hope and renewal,
> `-------------------------------' the world continues to deteriorate. Give up."

I was perusing through Software Etc. just yesterday and saw on their display of
incoming software - Strike Commander   Dec '92...when only last month it was
promised for Nov '92....that's what I saw.

                                                - Still waiting

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From: jrsellec@socs.uts.edu.au (91066720 j r selleck)
Subject: Re: Diplomacy
Keywords: diplomacy strategy
Organization: Computing Sciences, Uni of Technology, Sydney.
Date: 11 Nov 92 02:50:31 GMT

To all those people who mailed me to tell me about the DIPLOMACY area..
Thank you.

I was pretty sure that there was a group already for this but I thought it might be interesting for some of the die-hard Emporeres from Civ to have ago at each other.

Of course, Diplomacy is very much a different game, but as far as controlling the world goes it isn't to bad..

Any way if any one is interested...



--
jrsellec@syzygy.socs.uts.edu.au        James Selleck

  "There are, in fact, two things: science and opinion;
    the former begets knowlegde, the latter ignorance." - Hippocrates
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: dpipes@spica.srg (Dave Pipes x4552)
Subject: Re: V for Victory
Organization: just me
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 13:45:24 GMT
Followup-To: comps.sys.ibm.pc.games
Keywords: strategy war games

In article <1992Nov10.221413.11055@iccdev.indcomp.com> pwb@iccdev.indcomp.com (Peter Baljet) writes:
>		Has anybody played this new game vy Three Sixty and is it any good.
>This is the same company that brought out HARPOON.

If you are looking for a board wargame translated to a computer, this is the
best I've seen by a long shot.  If you want a realtime game, this is not it.
Feel free to email me for more info - I find I'm posting on this every other
day.
	David Pipes
robear@digex.com
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From: gtao@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Greg )
Subject: JetFighter 2 & Stellar 7 for sale...CHEAP!!!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:49:00 GMT

Hi All,

After noticing how soon my tuition bill is due, I've decided to lower the
prices on the games I'm selling:

JetFighter 2, $25.  This is the "Advanced Tacticle Bundle" which is basically
                    a whole bunch ($110 worth to be exact) of extra scenarios.
                    Night missions, particularly aircraft carrier business, is
		    most impressive.

                    * mint condition
		    * this game is NOT copy protected in any way!!!

Stellar 7, $15.	    This is a futuristic tank simulator.  Basically you drive
		    around and shoot stuff.  Not too technical, but a lot of
		    fun.

		    * good condition
		    * no copy prtection either

Since shipping costs are cheaper for me if I sell both games to the same person,
I will sell both games for $35.

Both of these games come in the original boxes with all the goodies that came
with them.

In case it's not obvious, they are MS-DOS games. 

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From: omar@osf.org (Mark Marino)
Subject: Fate of Atlantis Help!!! (Spoiler)
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:58:22 GMT

Hi all,  

   I'm stuck in Fate of Atlantis and was hoping someone could help me out.

I'm stuck beneath the caves in the room with the minature model of Atlantis
and the doors around the peripheral.  I place all 3 disks on the peg and line
the disks up according to the diary instructions.  I think it says something
like "when the rising sun chases night over the fiery peak".  So I line up
the rising sun, new moon and volcano to the tall horns.  Then I hit the peg,
and nothing happens.  The diary says something about "contrary minds" also.


I'd prefer a spoiler to a hint on this one, I've been spinning these disks
for too long.

thanks,
Mark


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: wayne@eng.umd.edu (Wayne C. McCullough)
Subject: Re: VGA Planets ShareWare Available!
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 20:45:00 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park

I just wanted to say that, as a compleatly independant person who just
downloaded VGAplanets out of curiosity, it apears to be a really awsome
game.

I have played it a little, and I have just started a two player game.
I have not run into any bugs, and as soon as I go home I have every
intention of registering it.  It's biggest flaw is that you need a lot
of people to play it for a long time, but if this is what you are looking
for, give it a look.  It has good graphics, a decent interface, etc.  It
is simple enough to learn the game, but it is apperant that it could be
a long time before I master it.

(Sorry, I didn't see much chat about it, other than the advertisements,
so I had assumed that most people had missed out on it.  I just wanted
people to take a look at this.  The product is is near professional, if
not better than a lot of games I have seen.)

W
From: jch@netcom.com (Jack Hwang)
Subject: Wanted: hints/cheats site
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:13:22 GMT

I remember there is a site in CMU which has a lot of cheats/hints on it.
However, when I try it moments ago, it doesn't recognize anonymous
ftp. Can anybody help me to find other sites?  Or does anyone know what
happen to it?

Thanks

Jack
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: kdontas@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Chris Eccleston)
Subject: Running Dark Sun Demo without sound
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:19:24 GMT

	Just type

		play demo.fli

	from the prompt, and it should work.


		CAGE

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: roe@Unibase.SK.CA (Roe Peterson)
Subject: Sherlock Holmes - HELP!
Organization: Unibase Telecom Ltd.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:37:57 GMT


I saw someone else on the net ask this question recently, but saw no
reply, so here goes:

In lost files, how do I proceed once Blackwood in in jail and has babbled?
I've hacked around for _hours_ trying to get somewhere.

Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: gmanning@dale.cts.com (Gary Manning)
Subject: Re: T2029:  What do others think?
Organization: Titan Linkabit Corporation
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:43:46 GMT

I was wondering whether T2029 is similar to the Terminator 2 arcade
game?  Certainly a PC version would be different, but is it based on
T2 or something totally different?

** Gary **

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Titan Linkabit
3033 Science Park Road
San Diego, Ca  92121
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: stwombly@cs.ulowell.edu (Stephen P. Twombly)
Subject: Re:Clarificaiton.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 03:41:58 GMT

I posted a letter a while ago about trading games...Apparently, I wrote
'copies' of games.  This is not to be understood as pirated copies, these
are original copies.  Sorry to all those who bothered to write to me.
From: biggles@biggles.nsc.com (biggles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: REX NEBULAR 4 SALE $25 (inc shipping)
Date: 9 Nov 92 23:02:13 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Organization: BigglesTech (a YoYoDyne Subsidiary GmBH)


The title says it all. 3.5" disks, all docs, and reg card.
(games requires about 14megabytes of disk space).

Nice graphics. If needed, i can even furnish a 
"this is how I finished" walk thru.

Winston.
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From: burke@Turing.ORG (John R. Burke)
Subject: Re: Wolf3D Cheat Mode ?
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 02:43:36 GMT

Goobers works with the sequal next works with the first game I think it 
has been awhile since i played them. Can anyone give me the cracks for
spear of destiny..

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			        John R Burke

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