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From: shawn.mccullar@gate.micromed.com (Shawn Mccullar) 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Indy Jones 4 help
Date: 27 Jul 92 18:57:00 GMT
Reply-To: shawn.mccullar@gate.micromed.com (Shawn Mccullar) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Micro-Medic Network Gateway - +1 408 280-1610 - Public access BBS



   .. From The Pen of: MARK DAVIDSON  (07-27-92 At 17) ...................
   .                                                                     .
   . I have the  wheel, the crescent and  the mouth. I put  the wheel on ..
   . the middle peg, the mouth on top  of it. I then put the crescent on ..
   . the right two pegs.                                                 ..
   .......................................................................

Yes, your  missing a gear. Try  going through ALL the  grates in the walls;
one of  them leads to  a 'secret  room'  that contains a  broken robot that
contains the piece you are searching  for.. Unless the gear you REALLY need
is the one from inside the robot in the 'jail cell' where Sophia is. To get
THAT one, go into the vent (via another grate), and pop a power pellet into
the statues mouth.

.[ Shawn McCullar ].[ San Jose, CA ].[ New Dimensions - 408-274-5550 ].
.[ Over 11,000 .GIFs; 600+ .MODs; IBM PD/SW ]..[ 14400 V32BIS/V42BIS ].

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From: mike%jim.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu (Mike Suter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games,rec.games.misc
Subject: Re: Adventure Construction Set
Date: 28 Jul 92 17:25:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: wupost.1992Jul28.172514.13918%jim.uucp
Organization: BITS, St. Louis, MO

walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk) writes:

>First of all, I've played both these games, and enjoyed them both.

>Second, have you noticed their resemblence to Nethack?  You might want
>to look up the thread about the problems with making a multiplayer nethack.

Hmm.. I'm not familiar with Nethack..  Were the problems overcome?
How did it turn out?  Is this for MSDOS?

Mike
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From: eric@geoblue.gcn.uoknor.edu (Eric Pyle)
Subject: Re: Problem with ftp downloads (CIV3 zipped file)
Organization: Geosciences Computing Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 22:09:47 GMT


	Speaking of Civilization 3.0. I downloaded this same
    file from wuarchive, which I used to upgrade my Civilization
    game. Everything went well until around 1750, this is where
    the DEVIOUS  --- RUN TIME ERROR- integer divided by 0.--
    struck!!!! Any bug like this occur to anyone else?

						Eric
From: sdyck@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Sheldon Dyck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Ultima 7, ENDGAME.EXE corrupt ARRGGG!!!
Keywords: Ultima 7, the black gate
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:20:59 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Having spent several weeks of patient pursuit of the dreaded Guardian and
his buddy Hook, I finally had him where I wanted him. Just as I raise my
hand to destroy the imfamous Black Gate forever, the stupid and I mean
STUPID, game crashes. I think the problem is with the file ENDGAME.EXE
Could some kind person have pity on a tired Avatar and send me this file,
it is not very big or zip it and upload it to wuarchive.wustl.edu? Please!
Thank you.

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From: cb062@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ira C. Smith)
Subject: Re: U7 Patches/errors...
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 11:44:15 GMT


    The red screen is supposed to occur. I believe its you 
traveling throught the red gate. It does this (at least on my
computer) while its accessing the hard drive about a 30 sec
procedure. Therefore I doubt its a bug in the software.
You didn't give any information about your setup, so Identifying
a problem could be difficult.
 
    Do you have a sound card, how much memory are you working
with? Is you memory manager disabled? I would say check out your
configuration to see if everything is OK first. If not post again
with more info. In the meantime maybe someone else has some ideas.
Im at a loss :^).

 -Chris
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From: sstrazdu@hopi.intel.com (Stephen Strazdus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: More Keen 5
Date: 28 Jul 92 17:55:41 GMT
Organization: Intel Corp, Chandler, AZ

Everyone's talk about Keen 4&5 got me to dig up my copies.  With the
instructions on how to get outside the pyramid of the moon, I was able to
do everything on the cheat sheet except for one thing.

It says there are 9 free Keens on level 1 of Keen 5.  I assume they are
in the right hand side of the screen, but I can not figure out how to
get there.  This level is not very big, and I've been all over it
looking for secret openings.  I've found a few, but none seem to lead to
the other side.  How do I do it?
--
Steve Strazdus    sstrazdu@sedona.intel.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: kskapin@csws8.ic.sunysb.edu (Keith T Skapinski)
Subject: Re: Help: Out of this world
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:05:11 GMT

In article <1992Jul26.141441.3907@r-node.gts.org> yung@r-node.gts.org (Amos Yung) writes:
>Hi all. I am stucked on level 4 (code LBKG) where you recharge your weapon.
>What should I do to cross the damn bridge? I keep falling off and died.
>The jump key just doesn't seem to be responding.  
>-- 
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Amos Yung          | Macintosh Jr.: The power to crush the other kid.
>yung@r-node.gts.org| 
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---- SPOILER AHEAD ----










I don't want to spoil it for you so I'll just give you a hint:

- You have to do something first in the underground caverns before you let all
  the water loose. Try going all the way to the bottom, then all the way
  to the right.

- You'll see what I mean.


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From: lintner@convex.com (Mitchell Lintner)
Subject: Thanks For All the Joystick Info!
Summary: Thanks for all the info about joysticks
Keywords: Joystick
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:49:58 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

Thanks to all of you who responded with information concerning the
differences between Commadore and IBM joysticks. I appreciate it.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: ksmith@vx24.cc.monash.edu.au
Subject: LINKS386 resolution
Summary: getting the best resolution out of links386
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 06:26:09 GMT

Someone asked a while back how come they were claiming that 640x480 in
256 cols was SVGA.  Well, the reason for this is that VGA only covers up
to 320x200 in 256 colours. That's where the 256 colour standard ends.
After that, you get different instructions for different cards.  Links386
is meant to be able to run in 1024x768 in 256 colours, if your card can
support it.

My question is this:  I have a trident (pity me, please) 1meg card, that
runs in 1024x768 in 256 cols with my non-interlacing monitor quite well,
but the vesa driver that comes with Links only allows me to go to
640x480 in 256.  Although it's a nice jump, going from 320x200 to 640x480,
it seems a waste of potential, if it could in fact go higher.

I had similar results with Tseng labs 1 meg cards (base ET4000 model).

HAS ANYONE MANAGED TO GET LINKS386 PRO RUNNING IN A RESOLUTION HIGHER THAN
640 x 480?  Running the chkvsa program lets you know what res the vesa driver
will go to on your card.  Check it out and see......post back to the
group so we can all find out....

Regards,

Keith Smith
Info Systems
Monash University
Caulfield, Melbourne, Australia

ksmith@vx24.cc.monash.edu.au
ksmith@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au
tris@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
From: maurel@aurora.unice.fr (MAUREL Frederic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Help in Police Quest I
Date: 29 Jul 92 06:38:23 GMT
Organization: University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France
Originator: maurel@aurora.unice.fr



Another help please:

I must arrest two drug dealers at Lytton  City Park.

I tried "Hands up" but they ran away and my assistant didn't arrest them.

If I kill them, the game tells me that it wasn't the better solution
and the game stops.

How can I do?


Thanks in advance

-- Frederic MAUREL --
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From: tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games,rec.games.misc
Subject: Re: Adventure Construction Set
Date: 24 Jul 92 19:36:14 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana


In article <1992Jul24.140516.3778%jim.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu> mike%jim.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu (Mike Suter) writes:
>
>Yes, I agree, simplicity was one of the strong points for Ali Baba/Heracles.
>But when using the ACS, you dont have to incorporate all that extra
>stuff into your adventures.
>
>I didn't know they made a version for MSDOS either, until earlier this
>week.

Speaking of Stuart Smith adventures...

How would you (all) feel about an MSDOS version of Ali Baba or Heracles?
How about a version which allowed multiple machines to participate in
the game? But wait, there's more! What if this hypothetical game used either
serial ports, network connections, or combinations of both, to link the
machines together? Suppose the number of machines which could play were
limited only by the number of available ports and/or the number of available
playable characters? NOW how much would you pay? Is this beginning to
sound like a Ginsu ad? ;-)

No, an exact clone of Ali Baba/Heracles is not politically correct, but
a new game, inspired by AB/RoH, and incorporating the above features
(and more), would certainly be doable from a legal standpoint. But would
it be worthwhile (i.e. would there be a market for it)? Would anyone
want to play it? Would anyone want to BUY it? Could the concept be sold
to a commercial sofware producer, a modern day Quality Software?

Comments?
From: reynolds@park.bu.edu (John Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Global Effect: "No patch planned." says Electronic Arts
Date: 21 Jul 92 21:03:41 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Organization: Boston University Center for Adaptive Systems


I heard from an Electronic Arts representative today that as far as he
has heard, they have no plans to release a patch to fix the numerous
bugs which have been reported.  Apparently this game was not tested by
EA, but only distributed by them.  I did not ask who originally
developed the game.

I was very disappointed to hear this, as the concept behind the game
is fantastic.  You have a limited amount of "power" with which to
build city blocks, military instalations, power plants, etc. and you
earn more power by being economically and environmentally healthy.

Unfortunately the game is badly executed and is not, in it's current
state, any fun to play.

Too bad!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games,rec.games.misc
From: marshall@tfh.enet.dec.com (Hunting the Snark)
Subject: Re: Most Wanted Cracks List
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 05:47:37 GMT


In article <1992Jul23.230155.4015@edsi.plexus.COM>, jason@edsi.plexus.COM (Jason White) writes...
>You mean if my stepdad gets Windows, and installs it on the three PCs in the
>house, THAT'S illegal too? It sure shouldn't be...

Yes of course, just take it to its logical extreme: suppose you had 10,000
cpu's in your house, just look at all the bucks poor destitute Billy G. would be
losing.

[for the sarcasm detection impaired, yes that was sarcasm]

Someone answered my 2 scenarios with the "take it the logical extreme" of
instead of 4 friends sharing a game, get 4,000 to share it. Yeah right. Just
about all ethical questions can be rendered meaningless by taking them to
"logical extremes". A controversial modern philosopher called this "lifeboat
ethics" and rejected it as irrelevant since we don't normally live in a
lifeboat. The same is true with the practice of group purchases: 4000 is
clearly an absurdity, I'd bet that these groups rarely get over 10. 

But regardless of the small size, I've accepted the argument that it is not
quite ethical to make a group purchase, but still hesitate to call it outright
piracy. I still firmly believe that were it not for the group, no individual in
the group would have bought that particular piece of software himself and so
there is no loss of revenue in such a purchase. "Piracy" I would rather
reserve to practices that result in real losses, such as selling bootleg copies 
to the general public. Oy the definition is still vague, but who cares,
everyone has their own definition and I doubt I'll be able to change anyone's
so its time to sign off this thread.

sm
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: robert@solan.unit.no (Robert Schmidt)
Subject: Re: King's Quest V
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 18:07:40 GMT

In article <2N78NB2w165w@student.business.uwo.ca>, dszpiro@student.business.uwo.ca (Daniel A. Szpiro) writes:

 > I have reached the hermit's house on the sea shore. The house is shaped 
 > like part of a boat sticking out of the sand. I have tried to talk with 
 > the hermit but he is hard of hearing. I guess that I have to speak with 
 > the hermit somehow, but I'm stuck. Nothing I have in inventory at the 
 > moment seems to be any use at all.
 
 > Can somebody tell me what to do to speak with the hermit?  Thanks in 
 > advance,

Hmmm, this is old, but try going up a couple of screens, and you'll find a boat.
Push this boat into the water, and use it to enter the island out there 
somewhere (search, search)...  You'll find something useful there...
 
 > Danny
 > 
 > dszpiro@student.business.uwo.ca (Daniel A. Szpiro)
 > Western Business School  --  London, Ontario

-- 
Cheers from Robert Schmidt, aka Ztiff Zox, aka Buuud (IRC).  E-mail to 
robert@solan.unit.no, snail-mail to Stud.techn. Robert Schmidt, Stud.post 170,
Norwegian Institute of Technology, 7034 Trondheim, NORWAY          

Warlords: Now do you think my .sig is boring enough?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: julian@sun-1.cs.uct.ac.za (Julian Hansen)
Subject: EOB I Manual
Summary: Lost My EOB Manual and am lost
Keywords: EOB, MANUAL - to buy
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:33:25 GMT

Greetings World,

I gone an' lost my EOB manual (sniff) - actually I think someone stole it. I
was wondering how one went about obtaining a new one, legally. I am perfectly
willing to buy it but I do not know where from. 

Any suggestions would be helpfull.

Thank you


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From: wity@iastate.edu (Jean-Luc Picard)
Subject: Need specific help in Indy 4!
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 06:16:38 GMT


I'm really desperate to continue the game.
I have to use the three disks according to the Lost Dialoque.
The only hint is "Glorious sun blazing alone upon the western sea."
I try to interpret it on the disks setting, nothing happens, then
I tried some other combinations, but still nothing happens.
Could someone tell me how to set those disks, 'cause I don't want
to try all combinations.
E-mail me or post it here, either is fine with me.
Thanks.

-wity-







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From: eputnam@vax1.umkc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Links 386 Pro and OS/2
Date: 26 Jul 92 17:58:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: vax1.1992Jul26.115830.1
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City


Attention all OS/2 owners...  Call Access software at 1-800-793-8324 and ask
about support for OS/2 2.0.  When I called, the tech support people said that
a fix was being worked on, but that he wasn't sure if it would be released
or was of high priority.  Call in and let them know that it is a high priority.

Can't wait to get my copy!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: yac1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Yuyo A Chou)
Subject: Prophecy of the Shadow
Reply-To: yac1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Yuyo A Chou)
Organization: Columbia University
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 05:49:19 GMT

	How do I awake Abraxus? I'm in front of him(UBG), but I don't seem 
to be able to wake him.  Is there something miss or what?


----
Yuyo Chou                      Internet-->yac1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu


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From: briggs@progress.COM (Scott Briggs)
Subject: Re: ALT.GAMES.ORIGIN (was Re: ALT.GAMES.ULTIMA???
Organization: Progress Software Corp.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:53:28 GMT

cb062@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ira C. Smith) writes:


>   Ok, Ok.  How 'bout this. A comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.origin (whew)
>news group. What does everyone think.
>-- 
Sounds good to me

Scott--
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From: STDN%MARIST@VM.MARIST.EDU (Dan Newcombe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Infocom's Journey
Date: 31 Jul 1992 08:54:44 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Well, I haven't played this game in a while but got back
into it after solving underworld.  I am pretty far but have
come to a dilema.  I am at the end of the second section
of the dwarven mines, where the vault of Cerilith(?) is.
Now if I use fire and the reagent, I can see through the
vault and get the gem, but when I leave, I can not burn
my way through the vines cause I am out of fire essence.
Or, I can skip the gem and get through the vines.  The only
places that I remember using the fire essence are to make
my staff glow and to distract the orcs so my party can
get by.  Did I miss finding some essence?

Also, how does one get into the big door with the runes,
if you take the path to avoid the orcs?  Thanks...

  -Dan
STDN@VM.MARIST.EDU
From: chim@sfu.ca (Alan Chim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Joe Montana's Quarterback Fix
Date: 26 Jul 1992 14:36:40 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Reply-To: chim@sfu.ca
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

I recently purchased a copy of Joe Montana's Quarterback and started
playing it.  However, when I got to 3:42 of the first quarter (or
there about) the game always locks on me.  I've tried using other
computers to run this game, but the same thing happens.

I was wondering if there was a fix file available for this game to fix
this error/bug.  If so please let me know where I can obtain it.

Thanks in advance.

Alan.
chim@sfu.ca
From: u95_jflynn@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu (And Hiding Away)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: GAME FOR TRADE: Indy4
Date: 23 Jul 92 08:04:15 GMT
Organization: Fairleigh Dickinson University


GAME FOR TRADE:

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atalntis -- just bought, original disks only
used once to install the game, all manuals, boxes, etc included

. . . in exchange for . . .

Either one of the EOBs (with manuals, box, etc if at all possible) on
3-1/2".  (After reading umpteen million postings about the series, I'm
finally caving in and trying to get one of the games :)

e-mail me at: u95_jflynn@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu


=jim flynn=
From: ms@terapin.com (Benjamin Craycraft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: MM IV or EOB III
Date: 27 Jul 92 13:04:18 PST
Organization: BBS

>Where can you get the demo from, FTP sites?
>                               -Frank

  I have no idea. I don't have FTP access. 
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From: hchong@netcom.com (Hoi Chong)
Subject: Re: Aces of the Pacific vs A-1 Tank Killer
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 15:06:12 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

From article <92213.084429U38339@uicvm.uic.edu>, by ALAN C. FUSCO, Ph.D. <U38339@uicvm.uic.edu>:
> I have A10 1.5- I agree it is better than 1.0 but it still isn't a flight
> simulator. It's an arcade game. Maybe I didn't give it a chance??? It stayed
> on my hard drive for about a day.

A10 v1.5 is a whole lot better than 1.0.  The old 1.0 is practically 
unplayable with its lack of sound card support during action sequence
and the lack of analog respone with the joystick.

v1.5 not only have those, but also 2 additional scenery disks --
Europe and the Gulf region.  Had some fun looking for Iraqi scud's
and blowing away SA-13's along the way.  It's OK. 
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