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Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Links --> Links 386 Pro upgrade...
From: tswanson@misvax.mis.arizona.edu (QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES.)
Date: 21 Jul 1992 17:04 MST  
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona MIS Department
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

Don't know if this info has been posted here but...

Access sent me a card announcing Links 386 Pro upgrade for 39.95.  It comes
with a golf course and they also send a SVGA version of Barton Creek.  In
addition, they include a course converter to convert the older Links
courses.  

Some of the features they list on the card...

  - Unique Computer Opponent:  you can record a round, send it to someone and
     they can play along with your game. (no mention of modem play)
  - Seven viewing windows
  - Improved club selection feature
  - Statistics recording
  - Scaleable "top" view
  - Profile view shows changes in elevation between ball and pin
  - new sounds (hope they got rid of that damn bird!)
  - Male/female golfers

  Equipment required:
    386sx/16 or better (something tells me a 386sx/16 is pretty optimistic)
    2Mb ram (4-8Mb ram recommended)
    13 Mb HD space (5Mb for program, 8Mb! for temp files)
      (they don't mention how big the courses are)
    SVGA card with 640x400 or 640x480 256 color.  (what, no 1024x768 ;)

Took me a while to get through on their 800 number, but they said I would
get it in 7-10 days.  They also asked me if I owned a Compaq or a PS/2, as
though if I did it would be bad news.  I didn't ask them to elaborate,
since I don't own either but if you do, you might want to ask them about
that before buying.  

That's all I've got on it.  Hope that answered a question somewhere in the
world.  I'll probably post with some impressions after I've received it.

Later,
Ted.
From: ningwang@acsu.buffalo.edu (Ning Wang)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Re: Civilization: Mo' money, Mo' money, Mo' money
Date: 29 Jul 92 20:14:05 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <Bs3rIH.10w@gtsi.com> rich@gtsi.com (Richard Lawrence) writes:
>In article <Bs2rL0.A0w@ais.org> impster@ais.org (Charles Budensiek) writes:
>
>>Save a game.
>>Use a hex editor and load in the appropriate *.SVE file.
>>
>>Change address  13b   to   7F
>>Change address  13c   to   FF
>
>The address is different depending on which Civilization you are playing.
>So this will only work for people who are playing your country. I wrote a 

Well it doesn't matter what country you're playing, all you really need
to do is convert your $$$ into hex, and search for it in the .sve file

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Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
From: mxt5182@usl.edu (Tangjarukij Montri)
Subject: Wanted : SB or Thunderboard
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 02:23:04 GMT

Hi everybody,

I'm looking for a cheap Sound Blaster or Thunderboard.
Please make me an offer.

Thanks,

Montri Tangjarukij
From: grs00173@stat.appstate.edu (Shannon R. Adams)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Hardball 3 stats
Date: 24 Jul 92 17:37:39 GMT
Organization: Appalachian State University


	I would like to thank David Ondzes (picasso@bu-pub.bu.edu) for his
work on a stats program for Hardball 3.  He has put much time into
making this program easy to use.  You can tell by using the program.  I have
tested the program starting with version 1 and each version has gotten much
better and easier to use.  Version 2.1 has just been released and I very
strongly suggest that anybody who owns Hardball 3 try it out.  It adds 
a whole lot to the game, especially if you are in league play.  Contact
David for a copy of the program and any questions that you may have concerning
the program.

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From: grs00173@stat.appstate.edu (Shannon R. Adams)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Want to buy Sega games
Date: 26 Jul 92 21:48:04 EDT
Organization: Appalachian State University


	I just bought a Sega Master System and am looking for games
to buy.  I would also like to buy a cartridge or two for my brother's
Genesis.  I would prefer Sports games for the Genesis.  Please e-mail
me with what you have and an asking price.  Thanks in advance!

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Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
From: evw2@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric V. Wong)
Subject: PC games for sale (rev 3)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 22:06:14 GMT


Third revision of this For sale list. Thanks to all who
have responded.  It's for a good cause (so my wife won't
glare at me each time a new game comes in the house).

FOR SALE:
.
  GAMES FOR IBM PC/COMPATIBLES
.
TERMS:
.
  PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING.  YOU SEND ME
  THE MONEY, I SEND YOU THE GAME.  ALL
  GAMES INCLUDE ORIGINAL DOCS AND DISKS.
  MOST, BUT NOT ALL INCLUDE BOX.  THOSE
  THAT DON'T ARE MARKED WITH AN (*).
.
  IF INTERESTED, LEAVE ME EMAIL.
.
ITEMS:
  Might and Magic III           $35
  Spirit of Excalibur           $20
  Powerdrome                    $10
  Kings Quest IV                $15
  Overlord                      $25
  TV Sports Basketball          $20
  Steel Thunder                 $15 (*)
  The Cycles - Gran Prix Racing $10 (*)
  Hostage: Rescue Mission       $10 (*)
  Chessmaster 3000 (DOS)        $30
.
  Deluxe Paint II               $20
  Autosketch v1.04 (1988)       $10 (*)
.
Remember, these prices INCLUDE SHIPPING.
.
I never play off original disks, so
everything is in fine condition.
.
Revised 7/28/92
Thanks to all who responded to my previous ad.
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Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
From: primus@netcom.com (Robert keng)
Subject: Looking for a good VGA card?
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 22:53:08 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

Hi all:

I have a good SVGA card for sale. Below is some partial specs:


Name: Renoir Ultra-SVGA
Supports ISA and EISA computers
Zero wait state operation
1 meg VRAM at 80 ns.
16 bit 100% VGA compatible, 100% Tseng ET-4000 compatible with HiColor 
extensions.
VESA BIOS extensions supported.
Sierra HiColor RAMDAC chipset for 32k color at 640x480 and 800x600
72Hz Vertical refresh rate
132 column text
1280x1024x16 (interlaced)
1024x768x256 (interlaced/non-interlaced)

		I am only asking 80 dollars+5 for shipping. Manual, driver disksfor Windows 3.x as well as many other popular programs included. Price is
negociable. If interested, e-mail me and let me know (and no, it's not stolen
property, as I still have the original receipt...)


P.S.

	Sorry for wasting bandwidth, but I'm in dire need of cash at this 
moment in my life (damned student loans...). I humbly apologise to those I will
offend with this posting..... 

primus
primus@netcom.com
From: brad.alan@brent.uucp (Brad Alan) 
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Soundblaster on a 286/AT with 512k RAM?
Date: 26 Jul 92 20:21:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Brentwood BBS Harrison, NY  914-835-7898
Reply-To: brad.alan@brent.uucp (Brad Alan) 

From: brad.alan%brent@ssr.com

steveco@microsoft.com (Stephen Cox) writes:

 SC> I've got a Zenith 286 with 512k RAM and an EGA display.
 SC> According to the Soundblaster box, it requires a minimum
 SC> of 512k.  If I install the SB board and then try to run
 SC> a game that requires 512k am I going to run out of memory?

I really doubt that you will run into any problems with the Soundblaster
on a 512k machine.  The best way to find out, is to try it.  It is very
easy to install, so if I were you, I would just put it in.

 
--- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10
        
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
From:  sveta@air.mai.msk.su (Svetlana V. Medox)
Subject: Computer games from Russia
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:35:39 GMT
Reply-To: sveta@air.mai.msk.su
Organization: MAI
Keywords: games, Russia


                COMPUTER GAMES FROM RUSSIA

                        NIKITA ltd.
     ----------------------------------------------------
         - computer games, educational programming -

     Dear Sirs,
     Nikita ltd is one of  a  few  companies  on  the  Russian
software market  specializing  in  computer GAMES and computer
GRAPHICS.
     The main  team of Nikita ltd was formed in early 1990 and
produced PERESTROIKA game - one of the  most  popular  Russian
games on the local market.
     At present Nikita ltd is mobil group  of  highly  skilled
specialists in
     - computer graphics,
     - art design,
     - programming,
     - music accompaniment.
Products of the company are on the  level  of  the  world  top
programs.
     What can we offer you?
     - advertisment computer clips at your order:  any kind of
your activity and a perfect design;
     - creation  of new games,  business and traiding programs
at your order;
     - rights for distribution of Nikita's computer games.
    The  latest  production  we  introduce  is:  "Locman",
"Catcher",  "Dropper",  "Snakewinder",  "Loopy" and the newest
computer game about the latest  Russian  revolution  -  "White
House  Defence".
    Besides we can offer you one of the most  effective  kinds
of advertisment - ADVERTISMENT IN FREE-SHARED GAMES.
     More then 500000 players only in our  country  will  know
you almost for a year .  The more popular is a game - the more
efficient is  an  advertisment.  And   our   games   need   no
advertisment.
     All the works of Nikita ltd  are  are  fulfilled  on  the
original software making it possible to
     - create complex animation;
     - use a vast number of visual effects;
     - include real object images into a program;
     - store all images on disk in compressed form;
     - run our programs on IBM  PC  and  compatible  computers
       with any  video  adapters  from  CGA  to VGA using your
       hardware at most.
     We would appreciate any proposals of mutual cooperation.

     Best regard,
     N. Skripkin, director.           phone +7 (095) 323-0737
     O. Medox, manager                phone +7 (095) 193-7174
                                      fax   +7 (095) 323-0737

     Moscow, Russia, 1992.        e-mail  sveta@air.mai.msk.su
From: jespah@milton.u.washington.edu (Kathleen Hunt)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: shamefully stuck in S201...also Dr. Dumont's wild parti
Date: 22 Jul 92 06:17:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Jul22.061704.15786
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

Gee, I've just started Spellcasting 201 and *already* I'm stuck.  How
humiliating.  I can't deal with the oil on the statue.  I've noticed the
spell behind the unshatterable glass in the janitor's closet, but can't
get past the glass.  I have the ruby & lots of other stuff...I don't seem
to have run into the copy-protection yet and am wondering if it's time for
me to wander around the sewers.  But I have no light source.  Bleh.  Any
*subtle* hints?

Also, similar immediate-stuckness problem in Dr. Dumont's Wild P.A.R.T.I.,
a game from years back.  I started it, got stuck immediately, and lost
interest due to pressing time commitments that left me unable to fiddle
with the game as much as I would have needed to get unstuck.  Can someone
jump-start me with this game?  I just barely started to explore around,
and figured out how to get water flowing here and there in the museum,
and just seemed to run out of stuff to do.  A very oblique hint would
be appreciated, like, what's the area I should concentrate on first? 

Thsnks...

Kathleen
jespah@u.washington.edu
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From: superc@chester.ksu.ksu.edu (Shawn E Chase)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: AD&D Eye Of The Beholder Temple Darkmoon helps
Date: 28 Jul 92 01:38:15 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: chester.ksu.ksu.edu


 The subject says it all. My roomate has this and he'd appreciate any hints anyone who has completed this game can give. He's gotten to the point in the temple where the Beholders really start coming on thick (in other words, they're random monsters)...thanks for any help. please e-mail

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Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
From: llc@po.CWRU.Edu (Ling L. Cheung)
Subject: Genesis Cartrige from HK/England
Reply-To: llc@po.CWRU.Edu (Ling L. Cheung)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 23:48:54 GMT


Does Cartridges from HK or Britian be able to work on a US Genesis? Would
the cartridge be in PAL version over there?
-- 

Lilian Ling Cheung
llc@po.cwru.edu
From: tscott@plains.NoDak.edu (Timothy E Scott)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Search for the author of CROBOTS
Keywords: A farly farly farly farly ahhhh FARL!!
Date: 24 Jul 92 17:05:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.19327
Distribution: usa
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo

Does anyone know where I could contact (snail-mail or e-mail) Tom Poindexter,
the author of the game Crobots?  I want to register it to get the source,
but I'm not sure if either address I have found is valid (the Crobots doc
has a address listed different than another one that can be found in
the Probots doc.)

Thanks in advance for any and all help...

--tim
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From: lgoodman@ziff.com
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: WCII SO2 HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:10:31 EDT
Organization: Ziff-Davis, Medford MA


Help

I am in WC II SO2, the scenerio is the following. Maniac and I are trying to
get away from the Ayers Rock traitors base. We are trying to get to a jump
point. At NAV1 are 2 light fighters (easy pickings) then on the way to Nav2 we
hit a flight of Sabres piloted by traitors and behind them are 2 Kilrathi heavy
cruisers. I try using the Mace tactical nuke into the flight of Sabre's
(warning: don't be too close when you set it off with your blasters - fried
city) Out of many trys, I only once knocked off all the sabre's, leaving my
ship damaged. I tried to attack the heavy cruisers, but while waiting for the
torpedo lock, I see the blue plasma of an antimatter bolt heading for me and
too late to get out of the way ... ZAP I'm history. 

Any suggestions on getting past the Sabre's? If you have to stop and wait for a
torpedo lock, how do you avoid the antimatter shot? Sure you can manuver out of
the way, then you lose your lock.

Lee Goodman
Ziff Information Service
lgoodman@zis.ziff.com
617-393-3235
 
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Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
From: jrl8@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (James R Lendino)
Subject: UPDATE (games for sale): I sent out all orders today
Reply-To: jrl8@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (James R Lendino)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 19:31:32 GMT

   I apologize for wasting bandwidth, but the disk space on my account
ended up full and I lost some people's e-mail addresses.

   I justed wanted to let everyone know who ordered from me that
I sent everything out today, first class, priority mail, insured for
$100, as agreed.  I have received checks from and sent out games to
the following people:

   Sanjay Singh (I did certified mail as requested)
   Joe Di Lellio
   Terry Lee
   Wayne Bernier
   Mike Davis
   T.C. Cantrall
   Paul Perdeus
   D. C. D'Antonio
   N. Huang

   I am assuming that the post office will be kind, and all packages
will reach their destinations by the end of the week.  If there are
any problems, please contact me by phone (718-891-6741) or e-mail
at jrl8@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu

   I would like to thank everyone for doing business, and I request
that everyone kindly notifies me by e-mail when their package arrives.

Have a nice day,
-JRL
From: guido@netlink.cts.com (Joel Cherney)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Another World
Date: 25 Jul 92 17:42:28 GMT
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA


  Having a *major* problem with the early stages of this game.  I've just 
swung the cage I was trapped in enough to crush the guard, and shot the 
first guard.  Now, when my fellow escaping prisoner gets to the gate, he 
starts to pick the lock or whatever.  Now, if I use the gun to make a 
barrier and blast through the guard's barrier, I've wasted way too many 
shots.  What do I do?

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Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
From: lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick)
Subject: Re: Leisure Suit Larry I Help
Organization: CSIRO Division of Mineral Products, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 10:26:21 GMT

gjmg6749@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Geoffrey J Maxson) writes:

>Ok, ok, I know I'm about ten years behind the times, but I've finally
>gotten around to playing this game.

>Right now I must get some wine, and when I call the liquor shop on the 
>payphone outside the quiki mart, he asks where I want the wine delivered.
>No matter where I tell him, he says "you'll probably never see it," and I
>don't.

>Do I have to tell him a particular loacation in order for him to deliver it?
>Or, will this approach not get me any wine at all?

>I'd appreciate some advice.

>geoff

Have you tried saying the  Honeymoon suite  or  whatever the 
title of that room is called.  Also, you must ask for 
champagne? (use correct spelling)
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From: vspicer@ccu.umanitoba.ca
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: adventure construction set
Date: 29 Jul 92 02:09:55 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

i got adventure construction set a few years ago as a birthday gift. it worked
quite nicely on my XT at the time so i dug it up and tried it on my 386
last night.

now i remember why i never got into it. it's technically quite an amazing
piece of work for the time, but one puts so much work into laying out a
universe, making objects, monsters, puzzles etc that when you're done
you don't want to play the thing yourself because you know how it all works.
the system only makes sense, of course, if you are trading stuff with other
people.

another small problem is what orson scott card described most aptly in
"compute" magazine as  "user interface from the nethermost hells". it's
kind of a like a big treed stick-shift of options.

on a positive note, the computer can finish the creation process for you
at any time. of course the computer isn't very creative about creating
puzzles and stuff so unless you're quite well through defining it the game
ends up being a monster slash and treasure-grab like "rogue". 

last i heard EA wasn't producing it any more. alas....

vic spicer
From: mtymp06@epx.cis.umn.edu (Ted Vessenes)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Help: EOB II -- Possible spoilers, but we doubt it
Summary: Gimmi help; I'm stuck!
Keywords: EOB, EOBII, EOB2
Date: 31 Jul 92 02:39:37 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota

I'm in this one room and I'm really clueless as what to do.  The room is
3x3 in squares.  In the center of each wall is a cubicle, in which are found
a red gem, a green gem, a blue gem, and a copper key.  On the sides of the
walls (ie, where there are no cubicles) there are Skulls sticking out of
the wall.  In the center of the room is a circle, and when you click on it,
it says, "This spot on the floor is soft."  We used a teleporter to go in.
How do you get out?
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From: magnus@THEP.LU.SE (Magnus Olsson)
Newsgroups: rec.games.misc
Subject: Lost Treasures of Infocom
Date: 22 Jul 92 13:16:01 GMT

Could anyone please recommend a US mail-order company from which I can buy
this package?


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