HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: glenns@microsoft.com (Glenn Slayden)
Subject: Re: Aren't you worried?
Date: 28 Jan 93 19:01:40 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

shump@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Scott Humphries) writes:
>There was an article in the Sydney Morning Herald a few weeks ago about
>software piracy, and in it was the story of a father who found out that
>his son had acquired software from bulletin boards in Australia.
>Software like Corel Draw, Falcon 3, and DOS 6 (yes, *6*).  The father
>was shocked that this sort of software was being distributed on the
>BBoards and proceeded to call Microsoft (especially) and the other
>companies to inform them.  They were NOT interested.  And this isn't
>copying for friends, this is bulletin board (a commercial operation, no
>less) distribution.  Don't feel bad about copying; don't worry.  If
>Microsoft et al aren't worried, why should you be?

You should be worried.  Microsoft *does* go after even mom and pop
bulletin board operatins, and so do other companies.  I don't know
who he called at Microsoft, but he should have been referred to the
Software Publishing Association Anti-piracy hotline: 1-800-955-7721.

Anti-piracy is obviously one of the major charters of the SPA.

szgershe@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>Not to enter the pirate debate or anything, but what do you expect
>from the software companies?  Are they going to bust every BBS that
>has illegal software?

Yes, if it's discovered and reported.

>Imagine the court fees.  

Image the losses:  SPA estimate for 1991: $1.2 billion.

>I don't think that
>the software companies are the ones to call in this case, 

Call the SPA: 1-800-955-7721

>If you know the right person, even a lot of BBS's that pretend to
>be "clean" BBS's have illegal software to give.  Right now, it's
>just the way it is.  Hell, they form groups that compete with
>each other to see how fast they can crack a game, distribute it,
>scan the manuals, etc.  Practically a "business".  

In my group we just recently had lawyers bring over disks which
had been downloaded, for us to certify that they were byte-identical
(except serial numbers) to shipping copyrighted product, and this
was from a small, neighborhood BBS in the United States.
 
Glenn
From: worth@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Jason Worthington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Star Trek 25th help
Date: 24 Jan 1993 20:32:02 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

The title says it all.  Possible spoilers.

I am getting stuck on the first mission after I open the alien door.  I cannot
find the right combination to activate the alien machinery.  The diagram of the 
eclipse does not seem to help.  Please e-mail any hints,etc.  Thanks.
-- 
Jason Worthington             
worth@matt.ksu.ksu.edu        
worth@ksuvm.ksu.edu
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From: Edward.Starczewski@launchpad.unc.edu (Edward Starczewski)
Subject: Re: Space Quest Help
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:25:13 GMT

In article <1jn6icINNa1v@male.EBay.Sun.COM> arik@thepad.EBay.Sun.COM writes:
>I know this is an old game but I am always behind the times.  Anyway
>I need a little help.  I have just bought a space ship that needs
>a droid (which I also bought) and have loaded the droid.  The problem
>is I don't know how to take off (which sector).  Anyone out there 
>want to give me a clue (or better yet the answer).
>
>---
>Thank you,
>Arik Klingensmith 		arik.klingensmith@ebay.sun.com
>System Support Specialist
>Americas Information Services, East Bay Campus Operations
>

When you're in the bar with the slot machine (the one where you made all
the money for droid and spacecraft), after you have the money, go to the
bar and start ordering beers and drinking them, after awhile you will
overhear a conversation which will point you to the right sector.

ED

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From: Gavin Adams <gavin.adams@lso.mts.dec.com>
Subject: Re: ***** Proposed RFD:  c.s.i.p.g reorganization  -- please examine
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A7845C813D02BA16@godzilla.jdola.lanl.gov>
X-Xxdate: Thu, 21 Jan 93 13:58:25 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d13
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:58:36 GMT

In article <1jkbbbINNmte@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> Michael Warning,
warninm@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU writes:
>As an aside, what do you think of a .unreleased group?  This would
>handle all of the speculation about X-wing and Privateer, and it
>would have handled Wiz7 and Might and Magic (whatever it is) before.
>
>			-Mike

And it will _always_ handle Strike Commander! :) :)

--- Gavin
Visualize Whirled Peas!
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From: vcan@cs.ulowell.edu (Volkan Can)
Subject: UW II - world 8 - HELP
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 15:57:08 GMT

ok, I have seen people asking this question before  but I guess the replies
were sent to email...
 
ok, on world 7, I have gone through all the different colored paths, and have 
been all over them many times..I gave the guy his eyeballs, and got the scroll
of fly..I went through the stick figure maze also..and killed everything in 
"hell"...and gone to some other places..
 
anyway, If I use the fly scroll,  can get up to the orange path and walk over 
to the shrine , but I can't get in there..is there an invisivble wall there?

also, mokpo says to go to a pryamid, climb to the top and enter the moongate
there...I have been there and there is no moongate at the top of this 
"pyramid"!!
 
help, I need to get into the shrine!!
 
email vcan@cs.ulowell.edu
 

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From: jliukkon@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Juha-Matti Liukkonen)
Subject: Re: 3DBENCH.ZIP uploaded
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:55:19 GMT

gting@fraser.sfu.ca (Gabriel Ting) writes:

><CTIRABAS@ESTEC.BITNET> writes:

>>>On my 386DX/25 with no cache memory and an ATI-VGA WONDER-16 video
>>>card I get 5.6 FPS.

>Noooo..... my Trident is faster than an ATi Wonder???? I got 7.8 FPS
>on my 386DX-25 without cache with the Trident 8900C.... Something is
>definitely amiss here...

386SX-25 (AMD chip) w/32K cache, Trident 8900 1M card = 8.9 FPS for my
computer - that's a lot more than your DX does.  Cache good, I wants
more :)
-- 
               Juha Liukkonen, aka jliukkon@cc.helsinki.fi
              University of Helsinki,  Dept. of  Lost Souls
           "Trust me, I know what I'm doing." - Sledge Hammer
From: michaelb@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Mike Battersby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: MISC: Split Poll, '.adventure' and '.rpg'
Date: 28 Jan 93 09:00:12 GMT
Organization: Monash University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

: (1)  Would you read c.s.i.p.g.adventure, if it were created?

Yes.

: (2)  Would you read c.s.i.p.g.rpg, if it were created?

Yes.

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From: rajensen@rodan.acs.syr.EDU (Russell A. Jensen)
Subject: Re: Amon Ra: BUG or BAD JOKE?
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 16:21:00 EST

In article <3044@uswnvg.uswnvg.com> gbarnet@uswnvg.com (Gary Barnette) writes:
>SPOILERS ...... SPOILERS ......

>My wife has been playing Laura Bow in Dagger of Amon Ra.
>She has put many long hours into this game. Last night she was able to
>get into the furnace room (to escape the person chasing her) and found
>Steve Dorian's unconcious body. But...because she forgot to pick up the
>smelling salts from the Countess, she could not revive him. The clue
>book states, and we found it to be true, that Laura is not strong enough
>to move the cover to the secret tunnel by herself and needs Steve's
>help. She also wasn't able to pick up the boot, so that's another
>problem.
>
>Anyway, since this game progresses by acts, let alone the fact that
>there's no way past the murderer, there is no way to go back an get the
>salts. This results in either spending many more hours starting over
>with a games that is almost finished or quitting altogether and forget
>about the money that was spent. 
>
>These games are supposed to be fun. Not something that makes her (me) angry.
>Why did Sierra (Games) allow her to get this far without an item  that
>was so important? Has anyone run into this before?
>
>This is the first game by Sierra that I have bought and even though they
>seem to produce a good product, I don't think that I trust them to not
>stick it to me in another game.  This is recreation, not a college
>entrance exam. Why such a fatal error that leaves no option except
>starting over? I see now that she should have saved after each act but
>who would have guessed that?
>
>A little peeved,
>Gary

	Gee Gary, Kinda like life huh? ;-)
Russ
rajensen@mailbox.syr.edu
From: mconeil@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Michael O'Neill)
Subject: Re: ***** Proposed RFD:  c.s.i.p.g reorganization  -- please examine
Organization: The Great Beyond
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:09:47 GMT

   I'm a new user; you may want to trash this now.
   This news group is, however, the only one that I subscribe to which I have
not managed to clear.  Some further specificity seems in order.  My $.02
follows.
   I like the idea of a coarse-grained reorg., i.e. 5 or 6 groups.  Add to that an additional group for "floaters", games which have not been expressly
"placed" in one of the 5 or 6 subgroups.  
   With a moderator (ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY) administering this plan, all games
covered by the subgroup would be regularly posted, in alpha list format
to the subgroup.  A message, as a header to this list, would explain to
all users (read new) that only articles relevent to the list of games below
will be posted.  The header should also direct the user (new) to the other
4 or 5 groups and to the last "floaters" group should the game not yet
be placed.
   In this way, it is hoped, the problems of traffic flow and cross-post-
ing should be ameliorated.  Also, frequent users will know exactly where
they need to go for a particular game, because that will be DEFINED.

						MON

.
From: lestrade@Ra.MsState.Edu (John Patrick Lestrade)
Subject: Has anyone heard of Rail Baron?
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:10:25 GMT

A friend is looking for a railroad simulation (Rail Baron?).  Is it PD?
Does anyone know where to get it?
thanks

--
John Patrick Lestrade        
cnesta::lestrade                       Let's try again in '96!
lestrade@ra.msstate.edu
From: accdtr@vaxa.hofstra.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: UNREAL sound help
Date: 26 Jan 93 12:13:32 EST

In article <1993Jan25.210104.9449@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, awalsh@mta.ca (Andrew Walsh) writes:
> Greetings
> 
> Well, got the quite amazing demo UNREAL off the net recently, took
> it home, and the damned sound wouldn't work. I have an ATI stereo
> F/X card, ATI 1MB SVGA, and a 486/25.I tried to run it with
> 8Mhz, 16 Mhz, and 20 Mhz, and the closest I come is a crackle with a
> split second of music. Can anyone out there give me some ideas on
> what to do, like load different music drivers? Thanks.
> 
>   ______________________________________________________________
>   I "I was young and foolish then, I feel old and foolish now."I
>   I                - TMBG, "Lucky Ball & Chain"                I
>   I                  "Get three coffins ready."                I
>   I          - Clint Eastwood, "A Fistful Of Dollars"          I
>   I Andrew Walsh/Batman/The Phantom/Nightshade | awalsh@mta.ca I
>   I <<<<<<<It's all the same, yet completely different.>>>>>>> I
>   --------------------------------------------------------------
========================================================================
Many of the demos you get off of FTP use Soundblaster only - not even AdLib,
and yes, the regular PC Sound is either non-existent or terrible. I had
the same problem with UNREAL, also.

In the coming weeks, I plan to get a SoundBlaster Pro, 16, or maybe I'll
check out this new Gravis stuff...
From: mucds@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Corey D. Stinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Ultima Underworld II - The $%!# Servants
Date: 23 Jan 1993 16:47:24 -0600
Organization: Educational Computing Network
NNTP-Posting-Host: uxa.ecn.bgu.edu

   I am desperate for help with the servants, if they don't go off
strike I get the feeling I will not be able to finish the game, I've
already destroyed the guardians power in 5 worlds, killed Dorstag,
solved mage test, many of the later problems in the game.  Why won't
they go off strike.  Now, if I talked to Charles, he doesn't mentione
the strike, but Nanna and Nell still do, and of course, Nystul refuses
to speak with me.  I can't see what this has to do w/ the strike anyway.
HELP!  Thanx in advance for any assistance.

Corey


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From: casivils@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (craig sivils)
Subject: Re: UW2 Heeeeeeelp!
Organization: Lockheed Engineering and Sciences
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:51:06 GMT

Makes me curious, has anyone been able to kill anyone during the early game,
I managed to lure patterson away into the secret tunnels and beat on him for 
over an hour, could not kill him.  My character is not a wimp, I have killed
anything I have fought yet with very little problem.  I know that killing the 
locals is not a goal of the game, but I was frustrated with it having crashed
and wanted to see what would happen.  I could get him to red real easy but he
never died.

				Craig
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From: cscope@camelot.bradley.edu (William Twentyman)
Subject: Re: Starcon 2 Question
Organization: Bradley University
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:52:54 GMT

In <93025.1110303116378@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <3116378@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:

>   Does anybody know what the deal is with the Rainbow Worlds?  If you
>find all ten, does something cool happen, or are they just a means of
>earning Melnorme bucks?

They form a pattern relevent to what happened to the precursors.
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From: iafinger@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Axel Finger)
Subject: Where is Lemmings 2 Demo ??????? 
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:30:37 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, Technische Fakultaet.

Subject says it all !
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From: brad@seas.gwu.edu (Bradford J. Crane)
Subject: Populous II cheat!
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:57:00 GMT

***** SPOILERS *****

Well, if you want to cheat your character, then do the following.
On the create diety screen, goto the password and click on it.
Change the third letter to the letter two before it. For example:
A C will become an A. NOTE: Please spend ALL experience first!

	This will give you eight experience, and repeated use of this
will allow your character to be max in all six areas! All spell effects
will be greater. PLEASE NOTE: You can cheat as much or as little as 
you want, and this is not REALLY a cheat since they let you enter your
own password anyway!

							Brad
From: randall-joshua@yale.edu (Joshua E. Randall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: HELP: Dune2 - How to use Saboteurs
Date: 23 Jan 1993 07:32:57 -0500
Organization: Yale University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: minerva.cis.yale.edu

Maybe I'm brain dead, but I can't seem to get my Saboteurs
(playing as Ordos) to do anything.  They keep getting gunned
down by enemy turrets, even though they are supposedly
invisible.  If you have to have a clear shot at a building
to use them, then they are a big waste of the 999 credits it
takes to build a Palace.  Hell, with no turrets in the way,
who needs Saboteurs?  You can just use Rocket Launchers.

Actually, it seems that only the Harkonnens have a useful
Palace function.  The Atreides's Fremen can me squashed or
shot, and the Ordos's Saboteurs can be shot (I guess), but
there is not a damn thing you can do to stop a Death's Hand
missile.

-- 
Joshua E. Randall                       randall-joshua@yale.edu
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From: mcmath@csb1.nlm.nih.gov (Chuck Creepy Crawler McMath)
Subject: UW2: Cornucopia wore out? (SPOILER?)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Organization: MSD
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 15:43:57 GMT

Hey, SPOILERS AHEAD (tho I sincerely doubt it, be safe).







I got the cornucopia from what's his name in the Goblin Tower, and now that
I've come to depend on it for my food it's stopped working.  What gives?  I
typically would open it, grab the food and stick it back in the box.  That
didn't seem to affect it.  In addition, once when I got desparate, I stuck
some non-food items into it.

Did I jinx it somehow, or does it just run out after a while?

chuck


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From: rmg53668@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ryan M. Grant)
Subject: Re: Vgaplanets: What is it?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:54:38 GMT


Host:           ftp.ucsc.edu
Directory:      PC/vgaplanets-2.1
Files:          hello.txt install.exe readme.txt vendor.doc
                vgapl211.exe vgapl212.exe

You need all the exe files, then run install.
If you just want to know what it's about, hello.txt is a brief intro.

- Ryan Grant
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From: etxjafa@sxmss.ericsson.se (Jan Fagerstrom)
Subject: Re: MM4: What is your party combination?
Reply-To: etxjafa@sxmss.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:24:36 GMT



My favorite

Knight         Pump him/her up with might,speed and accuracy 
Knight         backup for Knight nr one.
Archer         Whant to beacon back?
Rouge          Some rouge get all the Luck.
Sorcerer       Never smart e'nuff.
Cleric	       Everybodys Buddy

And all Human.
Now what do you think is the best spell?

heres my list

Lloyds Beacon	you need at least 2 who can cast it, one home and one back.
Town portal 	jumping around the cities and drinking in the wells.
Teleport        I like to T-port up for close combat with dragons.


         /Janne

 
Jan Fagerstrom       Ericsson Telecom AB, Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 8 7195894
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From: 9120092@ul.ie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Civ fixes
Date: 20 Jan 93 11:49:02 GMT
Organization: University of Limerick, Ireland

I found a number of cheats/cracks/save file editors for civ (tm?)
in two ftp sites. Really great stuff too.
First try ftp.uwp.edu and some where in the romulus directory there
are civ updates ( ver 5 ) , cheats, and cracks, as well as a definition
file for Game Director.
Game Director along with all the JUDGE documentation can be found at
ftp.wustl.edu and I highly recommend it. Well worth the $25 registration
fee.
Those sites were:

        ftp.uwp.edu    &   ftp.wustl.edu

Has anybody played netspace for the lan? It's great fantastic multi-user
network game available in ftp.wustl.edu I think.

            C'est la as they say in some parts of Ireland


                   Pobalopalous ( a.k.a.  Peter )

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From: tes0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (THOMAS EDWIN SCHMIDLIN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Hint needed for S201:  The Sorcerer's Appliance
Date: 25 Jan 93 22:40:58 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

I've been trying everything to get past a specific part of Spellcasting 201
and just can't seem to figure it out.  Will anyone who is familiar with the
game please write me so we can talk.  I'm stuck at the part with the elephant.
Thanks in advance.
-- 

Tom Schmidlin
TES0@LEHIGH.EDU
215-758-0872
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From: act@softserver.canberra.edu.au (Andrew Turner)
Subject: Re: UW2: Gazer's room
Organization: University of Canberra
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 22:34:43 GMT

tozz@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Bob Tausworthe) writes:
>>In the gazers' room (level 3, I think), I can't get up the small cliff
>>after killing the gazers and emptying the chest.  It's too high to jump,
>>and I don't have the ability to cast flying/levitating spells yet!
>>
>see if you can cast jump spell. If not, try dropping stuff (throw it out of
>the gazer pit). The lighter you are, the better your jumping.

I had no problem jumping out (Shift-J) with a full, and I mean full, load.
It was just a matter of getting back the optimal distance. I am level 9 and
have no acrobatic skills!

-- 
Renrut Werdna			Probable-Possible, my black hen,
				She lays eggs in the Relative When.
				She doesn't lay eggs in the Positive Now
act@ss.canberra.edu.au		Because she's unable to postulate how
From: tozz@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Bob Tausworthe)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:06:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Alternate World help - UWII
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games

>  On the 2nd level, there is some kind of secret door at the farthest
>  northern portion.  I think there is something in there I need, but I
>  can't seem to find the secret door or get in.  How do you do it?
>
I haven't been able to do much of anything on the second level in Brittania.
I found Nystal's laboratory/pets, The armory/larder area, and the staircases
area. Other than that I haven't got anywhere else on level 2. Am I missing
something? I've finished 7 worlds and have yet to figure out level 2 of
brittania.

Hints/comments?

			tozz@cup.hp.com
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From: hillyard@CS.ColoState.EDU (kevin paul hillyard)
Subject: Re: SF2
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:00:53 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Colorado State University, Computer Science Department


	Is it possible to run the game with english instead of hangul?

	Good looking game, but I havn't played it on the SNES, so I don't know
	what the main menu options are, or the facts about the players, ect...

	Thanks in advance!

	-Kevin Hillyard
	-hillyard@handel.colo.state

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