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From: bobc@natinst.com (Bob Conyne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games,rec.aviation.simulators
Subject: Re: HOTAS control of fligt simulators
Date: 8 Jan 1993 09:45:27 -0600
Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: eagle.natinst.com

In article <wright.91.0@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov> wright@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Ted Wright) writes:
>
>Someone suggested that I could buy all of the Thrustmaster products:
>FCS, WCS, rudder pedals. This would be nice, and I probably will 
>eventually, but it won't do everything I want it to do.
>Programable button remapping and programable switching of
>even more analog inputs would solve all of my problems. 
>
> 
>
>Ted Wright (wright@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov)
In the January 93 Computer Gaming World, there is an article (p. 174) on the
HOTAS system everyone is wondering about.  It's short; you could read it in 
the store no problem (in case $3.95 is out of your budget).  Anyway, the
idea is that it works in conjunction with FCS and WCS to provide a fully
programmable interface.  It hooks up both to a gamecard and the keyboard
connector, and allows as many as 4 joysticks to be attached.  Joystick
buttons can be assigned any keyboard function, and there is a programming
"language" (called HCL, for HOTAS Command Language) for associating specific
joystick activity with keyboard commands.  Could be slick.

Another product that caught my eye was something called the APS 2001 Cobra
joystick, by Maxximum company (the same folks that created the Maxx yoke/
rudder system).  Plagiarizing from an advertiser:  "Strike back and surprise
your opponent with the APS 2001 Cobra, the only fully programmable, 
microprocessor controlled, optical joystick that works through the keyboard
port.  Experience the ultimate in joystick performance without paying for 
costly gamecards or separate control devices."  From the picture, it looks
nice and there are a LOT of extra buttons on it -- could be a winner.  $69
from Mission Control in NY -- 800-999-7995 (I figure the least I could do
was print their name & number since I copied part of their ad).

Anybody know Maxximum's phone # so we can get more info?
--Bob

From: derekd@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Derek Dang)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:19:45 GMT
Subject: PC hardware and software for sale
Organization: Desktop Network Group (SSD)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games

Hello,

    I have the following items for sale:

        Diamond Stealth VRAM (1MB with Hi-color DAC)------------$160
        50MB full-height MFM drive------------------------------$60
        40MB full-height MFM drive------------------------------$50
        20MB full-height MFM drive------------------------------$40
        Kings Quest IV------------------------------------------$20
        Flight of the Intruder----------------------------------$15

    Please email me if you are interested.  Shipping cost is not included
with the drives.

Derek.
derek@hpnst.mayfield.hp.com
From: aaron@clark.edu (Aaron Auseth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Martian Dreams problem
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:58:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: clark.1993Jan8.195801.12298
Organization: Clark College, Vancouver, Wa.  USA

In article <C0Fxpo.6tt@brunel.ac.uk> ma92hdm@brunel.ac.uk (Henry D Mitchell) writes:
>I am by the dream machine in hellas, but I can't getthe control panel to work.
>I just keep getting messages saying 'the panel is not installed'
>
>(perhaps it's a Microsoft panel, and you have to setup it instead?)
> 

You need a panel!  There is a loose one under olympus (sp?) Before you
enter the water holding tanks (pumping station) there is a control panel
with a loose panel.  Take the panel, go back to olympus and find someone
to fix the panel for you.
From: NDWHITE@ESOC.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Civ help/patches
Date: 5 Jan 93 09:14:26 GMT
Organisation: European Space Operation Centre (E.S.O.C)


 I've seen a number of postings recently about the location of Civ patches,
but no replies, so this is another query... where are they please?
 I've got a copy of the game stating a version number of 474.01 and when I
get to the space race, and the other nations are happily building away, I
continually get messages saying such and such a nation has built a spaceship;
followed by what a presume is meant to be a schematic of the so far built
ship (which appears very briefly as a blank screen) - this can happen several
times per turn for each nation (and is therefore highly annoying). Also if I
try and examine the other nations ships, I can't really see a lot (in fact
another blank screen).
 Will any of the available patches help me?? Please e-mail...



   Nick.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: kjubandh@minotaur.UWaterloo.ca (Kris Jubandhu)
Subject: Re: THIS NEWSGROUP IS TOO FRIGGIN' BIG!!!!!!!!
Reply-To: kjubandh@zeus.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:08:17 GMT

In article <1993Jan12.063120.28256@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>  
menchett@pyramid.unr.edu (Peter J Menchetti) writes:
> Hey out there- 230 articles today! I don't have the time for this!
> When I read this group, I want to read NEWS of games, etc., not people
> asking for help/hints. (Especially when all their questions could
> be answered by ftping a walkthru from risc.ua.edu.) I propose a split
> in the newsgroup, to three groups:


Quit whining and learn to use the KILL file on your news reader.

Kill all the stuff with words like sale, help, hints, civ, pirate ..
....blah,blah,blah.

Kris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: vega@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Micah A. Williams)
Subject: Spells for Underworld 2
Keywords: UW2
Reply-To: vega@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Micah A. Williams)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:53:06 GMT


Newsgroups: triangle.forsale
From: vega@eos.ncsu.edu (Micah A. Williams)
Distribution: world
Reply-To: vega@eos.ncsu.edu (Micah A. Williams)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Subject: Motherboard, Ethernet Card for Sale.
Keywords:Motherboard, Ethernet, 3com 

-Memory upgradable to 32Meg on Board (8 SIMM banks)
-Socket for Math Coprocessor
-Chips & Technologies Chipset
-Intel 386sx processor (of course!)
-AT style motherboard
-6 16 bit slots and 2 8 bit Slots
-Phoenix Bios
-Have had no problems with it whatsoever

Asking->$100

3com 3c509 Ehterlink III 16-bit Network Adaptor Card
____________________________________________________

-Has both coaxial (Ethernet) and AUI connectors
-Driver diskette included w/ NDIS,MS LAN Manager,NetBios,and Novell drivers
-Supports DOS,Windows, or OS/2 Clients
-Original box and manual included
-Totally software configurable - no jumpers or switches to set
-Socket for optional Boot PROM
-Less than 1 month old
Asking->$95



Note to those intersted: I have tested this card successfully with
                         IBM's TCPIP for OS/2.

If Interested in either product, email me, or call 856-0187.  Thanks.


Newsgroups: triangle.forsale
From: vega@eos.ncsu.edu (Micah A. Williams)
Distribution: world
Reply-To: vega@eos.ncsu.edu (Micah A. Williams)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Subject: Motherboard, Ethernet Card for sale
Keywords:Motherboad, Ethernet 

-Memory upgradable to 32Meg on Board (8 SIMM banks)
-Socket for Math Coprocessor
-Chips & Technologies Chipset
-Intel 386sx processor (of course!)
-AT style motherboard
-6 16 bit slots and 2 8 bit Slots
-Phoenix Bios
-Have had no problems with it whatsoever

Asking->$100

3com 3c509 Ehterlink III 16-bit Network Adaptor Card
____________________________________________________

-Has both coaxial (Ethernet) and AUI connectors
-Driver diskette included w/ NDIS,MS LAN Manager,NetBios,and Novell drivers
-Supports DOS,Windows, or OS/2 Clients
-Original box and manual included
-Totally software configurable - no jumpers or switches to set
-Socket for optional Boot PROM
-Less than 1 month old

Asking->$95

Note to those intersted: I have tested this card successfully with 
                         IBM's TCPIP for OS/2.

If Interested in either product, email me, or call 856-0187.  Thanks.


Newsgroups: triangle.forsale
From: vega@eos.ncsu.edu (Micah A. Williams)
Distribution: world
Reply-To: vega@eos.ncsu.edu (Micah A. Williams)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Subject: MOTHERBOARD,Ethernet Card For Sale
Keywords: Motherboard, Ethernet

-Memory upgradable to 32Meg on Board (8 SIMM banks)
-Socket for Math Coprocessor
-Chips & Technologies Chipset
-Intel 386sx processor (of course!)
-AT style motherboard
-6 16 bit slots and 2 8 bit Slots
-Phoenix Bios
-Have had no problems with it whatsoever

Asking->$100

3com 3c509 Ehterlink III 16-bit Network Adaptor Card
____________________________________________________

-Has both coaxial (Ethernet) and AUI connectors
-Driver diskette included w/ NDIS,MS LAN Manager,NetBios,and Novell drivers
-Supports DOS,Windows, or OS/2 Clients
-Original box and manual included
-Totally software configurable - no jumpers or switches to set
-Socket for optional Boot PROM
-Less than 1 month old

Asking->$95

Note to those intersted: I have tested this card successfully with 
                         IBM's TCPIP for OS/2.

If Interested in either product, email me, or call 856-0187.  Thanks.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: vega@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Micah A. Williams)
Distribution: world
Reply-To: vega@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Micah A. Williams)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Subject:  Underworld 2 Spells
Keywords: Ultima, UW2, Underworld


	Hello.  Could some kind soul please post or mail me the list of
spells and their short descriptions for Ultima Underworld 2?  I would
appreciate it.

 	Thanks.



                                               -Micah

                                                Micah A. Williams
                                                North Carolina State University
                                                Computer Science
                                                mawillia@eos.ncsu.edu
From: sci30139@nusunix1.nus.sg (TAN CHYE HEE)
Subject: Wiz 7 - Crypt
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:54:04 GMT



--
Help!
I have gotten to the crypt and got stuck at the gate which has a coiled
serpentine dragon. There is also an empty golden urn and two closed
gates nearby. What do I do?


----------------------------------------------------------------------

			Gilbert Tan Chye Hee
		      sci30139@nusunix1.nus.sg
From: hyiu@terapin.com (Henry Yiu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: GAME BYTES: ARJ compression.  O.K.?
Date: 6 Jan 93 22:26:04 PST
Organization: BBS

In article <1993Jan6.123508.27487@athena.mit.edu>, dmsilev@athena.mit.edu
(Daniel M Silevitch) writes:
>In article <1993Jan6.011656.20486@b11.b11.ingr.com>, ross@kaos.b11.ingr.com
(Ros
>s Erickson) writes:
>|> --
>|> A quick question to all game bytes reader, present and future:  Due to
>|> my constant battle to enhance Game Bytes by adding more to it yet
>|> still having to fit it on a floppy for transportation purposes, I
>|> resorted to compressing issue #8 with the ARJ compression program
>|> (version 2.3).  I wound up saving over 100K of space vs. PKZIP 1.1 and
>|> thus could fit it on a 1.2MB floppy.  The program (ARJ) is not as
>|> widely known as PKZIP, yet is far superior in terms of features and
>|> compression ability.  Without it, I would have been in a real bind.
>|> Who knows what the future of PKZIP holds.  I'll evaluate that as it
>|> happens.
>|> 
>|> My question is, does anyone vigorously object to my continuing to use
>|> ARJ for future editions of the magazine?  I'm also considering sending
>|> up each issue as a self-extracting ARJ so the program itself wouldn't
>|> be necessary to have to extract the magazine.  Any thoughts on the
>|> matter?  Post them publically if you like as we might start an
>|> intelligent debate on the matter.  On the other hand, you opinion,
>|> emailed to me, is also valuable and takes up far less bandwidth.
>|> 
>|> Thanks for reading Game Bytes.
>|> 
>
>ARJ is a great program, and we all should use it for compression. In the
>case of Game Bytes, it also has another advantage: ARJ supports multi-
>volume archives, while ZIP does not. Remember the INCA demo? That was
>arj'ed, as it was the only way to split the 5 meg demo into something
>reasonable.
>
>I applaud your decision. (BTW, Issue #8 was great :)
>
>Daniel Silevitch                               dmsilev@athena.mit.edu
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ARJ is alright, but the new Pkzip 2.04c is even better!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: etxjafa@sxmss.ericsson.se (Jan Fagerstrom)
Subject: Might and Magic weaponlist?
Keywords: MM4,MM3,Xeen
Reply-To: etxjafa@sxmss.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 08:39:53 GMT

Hi

Do anyone have a weapon/armor list for Might and Magic?

And how do i turn of the machine in Asp?

Thanks in advance

          Jan Fagerstrom

email to etxjafa@sxmss.ericsson.se 



Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick)
Subject: Re: Appealing for Golden Axe Cheat
Organization: CSIRO Division of Mineral Products, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 07:15:20 GMT

boh@fraser.sfu.ca (Changhao Boh) writes:

>Hi, I guess the subject line says it all...

>I need a cheat for the PC game "Golden Axe".  I've just started playing the
>game and school is starting in 3 days... I MUST see the ending !!!!

>I've checked the romulus directory for cheats but it's not there.

>Thanks in advance, good health, and have a good year.

>Changhao
>boh@sfu.ca

I did not need a cheat for this game as it
is a lot easier than the arcade version.         

The easiest way to beat everone is to be the gnome
with the big axe.


Don't approach the badguys head-on.  approach from the side
and do a jumping attack.  This gets them on the ground
and then you have time to attack another.

The Dragons are a bit of a distraction.  They are fun to
kill with but make you very vunerable.


The hardest bit is learning to jump over the pits as
it is a quick way to die.  Practise your long jumps.

-- 
  Lachlan Cranswick  -  CSIRO             _--_|\  lachlan@dmp.CSIRO.AU
  Division of Mineral Products           /      \ tel +61 3 647 0367
  PO Box 124, Port Melbourne 3207        \_.--._/ fax +61 3 646 3223
  AUSTRALIA                                    v 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: zdlin@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (ZhongDong Lin)
Subject: second request for uploading FPSF92.zip
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 19:34:39 GMT

  Would someone has this file please uploads it to wuarchive.  
Thanks in advance.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games,rec.aviation.simulators
From: hchong@netcom.com (Hoi Chong)
Subject: Re: HOTAS control of fligt simulators
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:29:37 GMT

From article <wright.89.0@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>, by wright@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Ted Wright):
> I saw this posting on the Falcon 3 mailing list:
> 
>>From: white@watsci.UWaterloo.ca (Brad White)
>>Subject: HOTAS Controller
>>
>>In Bornsteins book, he recommends in an appendix that we use the HOTAS
>>controller card with the FCS/WCS.  It replaces your joystick controller, and
>>was developed by members of the CompuServe Flight Sim. Forum 'Skunk Works"
>>and are falcon experts.  The card is user programmable and can support upto 4
>>joysticks, button mapping and button programing.  Progressive rates for the
>>primary (first 2 ) joysticks.  The card plugs into a slot in the pc, but
>>also pulgs into the keyboard port.  The joystick, throttle, rudder pedals
>>etc plug into a 'breakout box' that is connected to the HOTAS controller via
>>a ribbon cable.  You download a special file before running the sim and this
>>will remap your joysitcks and buttons.  The program can be modified through
>>an interactive program or by writing a 'program' yourself for use with the
>>hotas controller.  Also, all other sims will still recognize the joystick
>>etc.
>>Has anyone else heard of this?  It sounds awesome.  Unfortunately of course,
>>no price is listed.  Anyone know the price?
>>Anyone have one ? ;)
>>Brad
> 
> I too am interested in this, but have seen no replies. I was considering
> constuction of one of these myself; if somebody has already designed one,
> please give us more details.

Why is it so complicated?  WCS merely goes between your keyboard and the
computer keyboard port; FCS is a souped up joystick, with 2 extra buttons
and a coolie-hat; did the guy forgot to mention a rudder/padel?

There are a few (lucky) power gamers in this group that owns the whole
setup, just ask.
From: jt3t+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Tan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Wiz7-Stuck in Sky City
Date: 10 Jan 93 13:04:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.8fI_iNi00iUyQ2vm8O
Organization: Masters student, Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

>> Posibble spoilers ahead <<<









I am at the second phoonzang statue with a combination lock made
of runes.

It looks like to *crystal* map provides some clues. I tried
to push the combinations so that they spell out DOMINAE.
However, the symbols on the panel don't exactly match the symbols
on my map. Is there a trick to this or am I totally off the track
on this one?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: robert@alkymi.unit.no (Robert Schmidt)
Subject: Re: DUNE II: bug???
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 17:19:52 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.020100.1380@nuscc.nus.sg>, law40001@nusunix1.nus.sg (CHENG KWONG WING) writes:
> 
> I was just wondering whether any else has noticed these 2 bugs??
> 
> 1.  on the "fastest" mode things seem to go haywire;
> 
> 2.  when I had more "spice harvesters" than refineries, the extra
> harvester on returning to the refinery to unload appears to seized up.
> 

I noticed the second problem, but I had only one harvester and one refinery.
The harvester went out twice, and after the second return it was stuck.
This was in the second battle, in normal speed, pretty early.


Robert
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: b912dieg@utarlg.uta.edu (DOUG WITMER)
Subject: Wanted: Games for IBM PC
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: The University of Texas at Arlington
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 04:09:00 GMT

I would like to buy your used copy of Commander Keen 4, 5, and 6.
I would also like to buy all of the Keen Dreams series, and the 
Cosmo's Cosmic Adventures series.

I'm also interested in all of the Jill of the Jungle series.

Please send me your offers.
Doug Witmer
b912dieg@utarlg.uta.edu
From: tax@tolsun.oulu.fi (Samuli Takala)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: World Circuit frame rates
Date: 11 Jan 93 21:10:05 GMT
Organization: University of Oulu, Finland

In article <1993Jan11.121846.25043@polaris.utu.fi> jarlehto@polaris.utu.fi (Jari Lehtonen) writes:
>Hi everybody!
>
>I just popped in to ask about WC frame rates: what settings do you use on
>what hardware. I messed around with it a bit during the weekend and got
>pretty good results on my 386/33 with Trident TVGA8900 when I set the frame
>rate to 17.6 with no textured fills. I think the game runs much better
>now (previous setting was 11.4), I get better lap times and so on. Processor
>occupancy now reads about 88% on tracks like Monza, and consistently about
>100-110% on Monaco & Phoenix.

I've got 386/33 with Trident TVGA9000. I think I have the same frame rate as
you and also without ground texturing. One step higher frame rate caused a
slight slowdown on some tracks. I cannot remember the processor occupancies
but they are around 100%.

Samuli Takala, tax@tolsun.oulu.fi
               tax@rossy.oulu.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: kak1@birch02.cray.com (Kevin Kramer)
Subject: Help: KG6 Logic Cliff part 4
Originator: kak1@birch02
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 8 Jan 93 09:00:28 CST


HELP HELP HELP

I sort of seem unable to do anything in KG6!  I figure I need to get up the
Logic Ciffs next but can't figure out what they want for question number 4:
Sacred Four.  I know what they are (tranqulity, air, catapiller, and love
or something like that) but that is just to much button pushing and it
never seems to work.  Any hints??  Is this hard or I am just illogical?


Thanks
Kevin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: pvr@wang.com ()
Subject: Re: Parallel To SCSI Interface For PC
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 13:15:08 GMT

pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:

>In article <1993Jan2.003109.25202@kd4dts.dixie.com> jcw@kd4dts.dixie.com (John C. Wren) writes:
>=Does anyone out here in netland know of a device that would let me connect
>=my laptop (with no expansion slots, but with a parallel port) to the SCSI
>=chain on my '486 so that I can treat the 120mb drive on the laptop as a
>=disk drive on the '486?
>=
>=What I want to accomplish is being able to backup the laptop drive to the
>=tape system on my '486.  It would also be useful for installing software
>=from the CD ROM drive on the '486 onto the laptop.  
>=
>=Any information would be appreciated.

>Don't know if this will work, but you might contact the folks at
>Trantor. They have a parallel-to-SCSI adaptor that works quite well.
>	Trantor Systems, Ltd.
>	5415 Randall Place
>	Fremont CA 94538-3151

    This will give the laptop access to the scsi bus; it will
be able to see the devices in the 486 machine.   The 486 system
will not see the disk in the laptop.   The laptop should be able
to write the tape drive except for one problem.

   Most scsi controllers have their scsi address set to 7.   Since
all scsi addresses must be unique there will be a conflict with
the scsi address of the 486 machine.   If you can solve this
problem it should work.




--
>>>>>>>>>>>> Peter Reilley ..... pvr@wiis.wang.com ..... KA1LAT <<<<<<<<<<<<<
                     Well, that about says it.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: edmoore@vcd.hp.com (Ed Moore)
Subject: Re: netnews readers for DOS?
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:47:27 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard VCD
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

: I'm using a very good reader for DOS called TRUMPET. Unfortunately
: the version I have only works on a network. I don't know if there
: is a version for use with a modem.

Let me shift the question a little.  There are a couple of newsgroups for which
I archive the raw files from the News directories.  I want to move them to a PC
that isn't connected to a network and use a threaded newsreader to search and
read them.  Is there any such DOS newsreader?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,gnu.gcc,gnu.gcc.help