From: 10667547@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (JIMMY FANG)
Subject: FTP site for Amiga Game Solutions? [repost]
Keywords: ftp,amiga,game,solutions
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:15:36 GMT

Hi!


What I think would be a good idea is to put

o complete walkthroughs/solutions for adventure games
o games hints, strategies for simulations/arcade games
o cheat modes (type in code, etc) for arcade games

On a single ftp-site, which has the following benefits:

o the complete collection of solutions could be mirrored world-wide
o a common file format for the solutions,hints and cheats
  eg.  AnotherWorld.023.sol
       [name of game].[unique id#].[type of file]
o a monthly posting of what's available could be posted to 
  comp.sys.amiga.games


	 
Sites for game solutions (mostly ibm games):
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nic.funet.fi                                       pub/misc/game.solutions
lysator.liu.se                                     pub/solutions
risc.ua.edu                        130.160.4.7     pub/games/solutions 
romulus.mercury.andrew.cmu.edu     128.2.35.159    pub
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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I'm preparing a form letter to ask ftp site admininstrators for Hard-drive 
space for AMIGA game solutions.

E-mail to me the e-mail address(es) of administrators you believe would 
allow an Amiga game solutions directory.

I have found one site that will allow non-IBM stuff to be ftp'ed, but an 
AMIGA site would be much better.  Most sites don't allow non-IBM stuff 
to be posted.  Below is the transcript:

[***********************************************************************]
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 09:24:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Robert W. Igo" <ri09+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Put all solutions, etc on anonymous ftp sites?
To: 10667547@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au
Message-id: <keXuWSy00WCTMHNWQc@andrew.cmu.edu>

Okay, I'll allow solutions to be posted for non-IBM games, but nothing
else at this time.  Perhaps I'll try it out later, but as it is now, I
still have a lot of stuff to do with the IBM cheats, hints, and cracks. 
Until I can handle that easily, I don't want to take on a larger task. 
I'll post to the appropriate Amiga bboards if/when the time comes. 
Thanks for your interest!

[******************************** Bob Igo ********************************]



Perhaps a list of files/solutions/hacks/cheats/spoilers/etc can be posted 
at the end of each month, stating what is available and the author/sender.
Split it up into update file and a complete listing file as well.  Perhaps 
the complete listing can be stored away somewhere and we just post the 
updates?

The format of the monthly poster could be something like this:-
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-SYSTEM: Amiga

Game/Program        TYPE      File Size      Sender                   Date
=============================================================================
NetHack             Spoilers  1,201,045      f: kroddo@yoyo          23.09.92
Borrowed Time       Solution      3,450      a: bigmac@mcdonald      11.05.91
Dungeon Master II   Solution    254,056      a: ronny@washington     31.08.92

SITE:  amiga.hq.unix
ADMIN: jim@amiga.hq.unix

-----------------------------
where f: forwarder (reposter) someone who sent the file on
	 hopefully this class will be small --> attribute sources  
      a: author of the file
   TYPE:    spoiler  - lots of hints
	    hint     - just one hint (probably not a good idea - better to
		       join them to the spoiler)
	    cheat    - a cheat mode within the game
	    hack     - a patch or program that enables cheating
	    solution - a complete walk through
   SITE: where you can anonymously FTP the files from.


  ADMIN: system admin, someone you mail for updates, etc  (Who knows?!)
 SYSTEM: if we go for a multi-platform posting, then we would need to split
	 the posting up into system listings as well.

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Ideally, the files should be freely available and compressed (if need be) in 
a format that can be compressed/decompressed by various computer systems.
Distribution should be as wide spread as possible, put it on BBS's, user
groups, PD software libraries, etc.  The author(s) of the documents must 
agree to have their work freely distributable, so old files mightn't be 
allowed to be placed on a ftp-site.

Also, the page-width of the file should be set to something less than 80
columns.  Perhaps 75 or 70 columns.  ==> WHY?
Because we can print 160 chars per line on most printers (in 12cpi condensed 
mode), so if we insert a left margin, we can have two columns per page and
have room to punch holes on the left of the paper!

I'm willing to help administrate this system.  You could mail solutions, etc
to me and I would document, compress and upload the files, but I may not 
have Internet access next year (I finish my Economics degree this year and 
haven't decided whether I'll finish my Civil Engineering degree, get a job 
or do honours in Econometrics).


Any further input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanking you in anticipation.


Jim
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