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From: Russell_Owsianski@mindlink.bc.ca (Russell Owsianski)
Subject: Re: Steve Jackson's 'Hacker'
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:17:40 GMT

> z_rasmusseam@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
>
> Msg-ID: <1992Dec9.212435.2130@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>
> Posted: 9 Dec 92 21:24:35 CST
>
> Org.  : Stephen F. Austin State University
>
>
> >>I've been trying to find a copy of 'Hacker' for the IBM PC,
> >>but I haven't had much luck in town I live in.
> > >
> > Hmmm...there may be some confusion here.  There is 2 games called
> > 'Hacker'.  One is a computer game and the other (I believe) is a
> > card game.  The latter is made by Steve Jackson Games.  I don't
> > know for sure if there is an IBM PC version of the computer game
> > (which is NOT published by SJG).
> >
> >>Thanks for any replies.
>
> If you mean the game where you were a little SRU (I believe they called
> it). I've got it somewhere.
> To make sure we're talking about the same game, you went around and traded
> (orginally) cash for
> artifacts, then artifacts for document pieces or more artifacts.  This the
> one? Plays
> REAL fast on 386-40 ;)
>   --  Adam

I remember playing this one years ago on a mac (blech), it was an ok game for
1988-89 (?).  Sort of slow going though...

Steve Jackson's card game 'Hacker' on the other hand is a GREAT game.  Anyone
familiar with the net would find it VERY entertaining.  In may ways, its a
better multi-player game than Illuminati.
--
---

        "I'll read some news, it'll help me to _RELAX!_"

                                        .rn

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games,misc.forsale.computers,ne.forsale
From: bobg@westford.ccur.com (Bob Getz)
Subject: Max Overkill and Soundblaster for SALE
Reply-To: bobg@westford.ccur.com (Bob Getz)
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp. Westford MA.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:01:01 GMT


Comanche: Maximum Overkill for Sale.  Ultimate Helicopter Warfare simulator.
	Minimum system requirements: 386 or higher, and 4MB RAM (hard
	disk goes without saying)
	On 3 1/2" floppies.
	$40 (or best offer)

Soundblaster:	Original version (1.5 I think).
	THIS IS NOT THE Soundblaster PRO!
	Includes original manuals and disks.
	$50 (or	best offer)


I'll pay shipping expenses.
---------------
Bob Getz	(508)392-2431		bobg@westford.ccur.com
From: z_rasmusseam@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Do *NOT* split this newsgroup!!!
Date: 16 Dec 92 17:19:59 CST
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University


> 	Just how am I supposed to upgrade to a new reader? Just send some mail
> to the sys-admin so he can put it on the system where about only 1 person
> will us it? (me) Read news more often? Heck, I read it almost every day. I
> also happen to subscribe to a few other newsgroups, (hey, I read other things
> too, you know.) and that puts the count to about 500+ a day. If YOU have such
> a nifty reader, great, I'm happy for you. What? you mean you can't concat-
> enate all those split newsgroups together? But I thought you had the super-
> state-of-the-art newsreader 7.8.9.x gee.... too bad.
>  
> ==============================================================================
> " There is no right, there is only POWER! "
                                     ^^^^^
> 				- Ashen-Shugar,A Darkness at Sethenon
Gee, I think he answered himself.  I'm sorry if you don't have a capable
enough news reader, but come on... 
> 
> Hadoken! -Ken

  --  Adam

P.S.  I read some of the biggest groups around... Almost everyday. 
     bit.listerv.win-l, bit.listserv.novell, comp.os.ms-windows.*
     etc etc etc.  So, please don't whine about 500+ letters a day...
     
From: goo@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Michael Goo)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:57:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Need Help with Amazon
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games

norby@pearl.berkeley.edu (Peter Norby) writes...

>This is really silly, considering Amazon has way lots 
>of online help in it already, but I'm stuck on the
>slaver's ship, because I can't find the harpoon to
>load into the harpoon gun to take care of the guard to 
>grab the stuff thru the portal

How lucky for you.  All I've played is the demo version,
which just happens to cover this very section.  Are you
the same guy that had trouble breathing underwater?

Hint follows....



You've probably tried to open all of the boxes on the
deck of the ship already; however, what you probably
don't know is that I think it matters what side of the
box you're facing when you try.

Hope this helps.

Mike
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
Subject: Re: Ultima Underworld walkthru: plain text file anywhere?
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Distribution: comp
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 05:45:11 GMT

In article <1992Dec19.202915.23281@news.columbia.edu> am66@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Alexander Maldutis) writes:
>I just caught the tail end of this thread.  Where can the walkthrough be found?
>Also, where are the patches and other assorted proglets for this game.  I'm 
>planning to get into it after Christmas.
>
>Thanks in advance.

Well, apparantly the GameBytes #7 has it, AND a print facility.  Hmm.
It is on ftp.ulowell.edu, in something like /msdos/Games/GameByte.
Get the text file.  Or the graphics one - GameBytes is pretty good.
>
>Regards,
>
>***LeX the InFinitely UnDefined (Compiler of the Dictionary of the UnDefined)**
>********************************* *   *** *** *********************************
>*Nemo me impune lacessit.         *   **   *       Summa sedes non capuit duos*
>*212 864 1841******************** *** *** *** *****am66@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu*


--
Dan Stephenson                                         das9674@usl.edu  
"Yes Dan, I have heard of Ultima Underworld.  From my point of view it
 appears to be a rather large stick which you seem to be using to beat
 everbody in this group with." -Mark Steyn, comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: larsen@meena.cc.uregina.ca
Subject: RE: Starcon II - Melee
Date: 19 DEC 92 16:50:34 GMT
Organization: University of Regina, Regina, Sask., Canada

In a previous article, gcl0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (GEORGE C. LIN) wrote:
> 
>Is there a way to turn the music, but not the sound off in super melee in
>Starcon II?  I looked through the manual and the only way is to turn BOTH
>off.  I guess I'll have to wait til I get a sound blaster pro.  Does it
>still slow down the action with a sound blaster pro?  Because it really
>SUCKS with the PC speaker tweeking the horrible sound.
Buy a Gravis Ultrasound!  It works fine on a 286/16 and full music.

I'm not going to say anymore.  Go over to c.s.i.p.soundcard and read
all the glowing reviews and people shooting down the SBPro!

Bryan
> 
>GL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: etxfln@eos.ericsson.se (Fredric Lonngren)
Subject: Re: Release dates
Reply-To: Fredric.Lonngren@eos.ericsson.se (Fredric Lonngren)
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 10:56:10 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.083507.23543@u.washington.edu>, robs@hardy.u.washington.edu (Robert Suh) writes:
|> In article <1992Dec12.054716.10468@athena.mit.edu> rcbear@athena.mit.edu (Rupert C. Young) writes:

[ stuff deleted ]

|> >Ultima 7- part2 : 12/23/92
|> >Ultima Underworld 2: 12/26/92

[ more deleted ]

|> 
|> Is Origin trying to commit marketing-suicide.  Though, I'm a little weary
|> on the dates, If Origin is smart, it would spread the releases a little more,
|> considering that it would be competiting with itself.  Both with, Ultima
|> 7 - Serpent Isle vs UW2, and Strike Commander vs Privateer.
|> 
|> Though, I'd like to see the games come out, as advertised above.  I'm not
|> counting down the days..(sigh).

They did the same thing when they released U7 and UW, they hit the shelves
almost at the same time.  I don't think it did any harm to the sales on the
games.  There where only some moaning here on the net about which one to play
first.  Guess quality games will stand for them selfs without marketing trix.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,misc.consumers,misc.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm
From: brucek@Ingres.COM (Bruce Kleinman)
Subject: Re: PRODIGY New and improved STILL SUCKS, HORRIBLE as before
Organization: Ingres, an ASK Company, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 18 Dec 92 19:46:59 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.183205.16889@panix.com> imran@panix.com (Imran Anwar) writes:
>
>See if you can post anything about Prodigy there - try posting something
>critical of Prodigy - if you remember they even CENSORED people's *email*
>on Prodigy and it became such a major issue some months ago.
>
>Imran

I and many others post openly critical notes on Prodigy's bulletin boards
on a regular basis.  They do not get censored unless 4-letter words are
used or the posting is "unduly offensive", and criticism of the service
itself does not qualify for the latter category -- they're looking for
ethnic slurs and the like.  

The fact that we find so much to criticize indicates that many of the
other problems various folks have brought up do indeed exist, but there
simply is no censorship based on the objective content of the messages.

The major issue Imran refers to actually was the exact opposite -- Prodigy
was criticized for NOT censoring certain private email messages which
allegedly contained anti-Semitic references.  

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,misc.consumers,misc.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm
From: brucek@Ingres.COM (Bruce Kleinman)
Subject: Re: PRODIGY New and improved STILL SUCKS, HORRIBLE as before
Organization: Ingres, an ASK Company, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 18 Dec 92 19:59:09 GMT

In article <9212170305136637@waltham.columbus.oh.us> scasterg@waltham.columbus.oh.us writes:
>jd> I chopped out most of this but you get the idea Imran doesn't like Prodigy.
>jd> Well I feel obliged to respond.  I've used Prodigy for a couple of years 
>and
>jd> like it very much.  I tried Compuserve and think it SUCKS!  So there you 
>are!
>jd> What do they say, "different strokes for different folks, etc"?
>
>If you don't mind my asking, what in the world do you find to like about it?
>
>The commercials? The lack of file download capability? The interface (gag)?
>The lack of connectivity with the internet? The way it takes over your Mac?
>
>There must be something wonderful that I am missing. Sorry to sound sarcastic,
>but please do elaborate!
>

The nice thing about Prodigy is the diversity of its user community.
These people are not all computer jocks, they're not all college
students and/or grads, they're not all anything in particular, they're
just regular folks.  I enjoy talking to them.  Prodigy is not a
substitute for the Internet -- it's more like talk radio in written
form.  Not for everyone, I suppose, but I wouldn't be without it.

A word about the commercials and commercialism: if you can't stand to
watch TV because of the commercials, I guess I understand your dislike
of Prodigy, but like commercial TV, those ads are keeping Prodigy's
price very reasonable, and like TV, I ignore them most of the time
anyway.  On occasion, however, the various on-line shopping services
are very useful and convenient, and all in all I'm glad they're there.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: pliuskon@intellistor.com (Saul Pliuskonis)
Subject: Microsoft Mail & SMTP - strange problem
Summary: broke
Keywords: Microsoft Mail SMTP
Organization: Intellistor, Inc.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 17:24:05 GMT

We are using Microsoft Mail version 2.1, and the SMTP gateway option.
This setup has been working fine for over a year, but we are now 
experiencing some very wierd behavior.

Our environment is made up of PCs and Sun workstations, all running TCP/IP.

PC mail users are able to send mail to other PC users with no problems.

PC mail users are also able to send mail to our Unix systems with no problems.

Unix mail users can send mail amongst themselves, with no problems.

Unix mail users (or any mail user outside of the Microsoft Mail environment)
CAN'T send mail to PC mail users.  

The strange part is that the mail acts like it is being delivered just fine. It 
never bounces back to the sender, but it never shows up in the PC mail user's 
mailbox either.

Here is some output that I captured from the smtpgateway console, with all the
information options turned on.

16:57:03 - Incoming SMTP connection from [192.138.254.1] detected
[tx] 220 All set, fire away
[rx] HELO sun3.daisynet
[tx] 250 Hi there, pleased to meet you
[rx] MAIL From:<root@sun3>
16:57:03 - Translating remote address: "root@sun3"
16:57:03 - Non-local address left unmapped
[tx] 250 Sender OK
[rx] RCPT To:<test@smtpgate>
16:57:03 - Translating local address: "test@smtpgate"
16:57:03 - Mapped to "CSI:isinet/isilocalpo/test"
[tx] 250 Recipient OK
[rx] DATA
[tx] 354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>
[rx] ...message body...
[tx] 250
16:57:04 - Sending message to Courier
[rx] QUIT
[tx] 221 See you later
16:57:17 - SMTP connection closed



This looks normal to me. Am I wrong?


Also, where does the actual message get stored in the MS Mail directory,i.e. which of these
directories stores the message data?

att/		glb/		key/		mem/		tpl/
display.cfg	grp/		log/		nme/		usr/
folders/	hlp/		mai/		p1/			xtn/
inf/		mbg/		smtp/



The manuals have not been very useful at all for trying to trouble-shoot this
problem.



Any info on the questions above would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Saul
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,alt.bbs
From: koga@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Arthur Koga)
Subject: INFO wanted! x.25 server software
Organization: University of Hawaii
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:05:09 GMT

Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:33771 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:16030
From: dg@wet.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: #COM Etherlink II help needed
Date: 20 Dec 92 08:53:38 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Distribution: usa
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco

I recently got myself a pair of 3COM 3C503 Etherlink II cards at a flea
market. All they came with was a disk that looked like it was an upgrade
kit. Still for $50.00 / card, I'm not complaining too loud.

My problem is that I have no idea what drivers to install with what
parameters to allow me to network my two PC's together. I've decided
that the cards will be at port address 02a0h, and that I want to use
IRQ 5 and DMA 3 (not the defaults). For the curious, the default settings of
port address 300, IRQ 3 and DMA 1 are all spoken for, and are not
changeable.

So, assuming that I want to make the C and D drives on the one system show
up on the other (and vice versa), what magic do I need to add to my
config.sys and autoexec.bat files to make it happen. I found some likely
looking files (ETH503.SYS, 2ETH503.SYS) on the diskette, plus ELNKII.DOS
which looks like a .EXE (starts with a plausible looking header), and some
files in a NOVELL/ODI subdirectory called 3c503.com and 3c503.sys.

Any ideas what I need to do with any of this to make it all work?
     dg
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mrbill@leland.Stanford.EDU (William Bowen)
Subject: Re: AMD rubbish????
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 23:41:46 GMT

>>In article <1992Dec8.093121.89@roads.sa.gov.au: wilsonn@roads.sa.gov.au writes:
>>:I'm thinking of buying a PC, either a AMD386DX40 or an Intel 486SX25 - 33. I've
>>:been told that the AMD chip is unreliable and would appreciate some feedback.
>>:Comments on relative speed between the machines also would be helpful. 
>
>>If the AMD chip did not perform completely like an Intel, you would see Intel
>>plastering that all over their advertisements.
>*----
>AMD is using actual Intel microcode in their 386 line.  Nonetheless
>I opted for the 33 MHz Intel CPU because I wanted a genuine Intel
>math coprocessor, and they are only available up to 33 MHz.  But
>there's nothing wrong with AMD CPU chips.
>--
>	Mike Berger
>	Internet    berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu

I use an AMD 386DX40 and I am very pleased with it. It runs DR-DOS, Win 3.1
and OS/2 flawlessly and fast.

Take a look in the December Byte. There's an article comparing various CPUs
including the AMD chip. The benchmarks indicate that its performance is
comparable to the Intel 486DX33. If you want to add a math coprocessor,
it's much cheaper to buy a '387 from Cyrix, IIT or ULSI (~ $90{).

Regards,


Bill
mrbill@leland.stanford.edu


Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:33346 comp.sys.mac.hardware:24261
From: andrew@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu (CHIHUAHUA CHARLIE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Where the mac really wins
Date: 16 Dec 92 00:15:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: aardvark.15DEC199218155311
Organization: University of Oklahoma - University Computing Services
Originator: usenet@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

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-Iskandar Taib                          | The only thing worse than Peach ala
-Internet: NTAIB@SILVER.UCS.INDIANA.EDU |    Frog is Frog ala Peach
-Bitnet:   NTAIB@IUBACS                 !

                            ^^^^^^^
   You know it's pretty sad that you keep talking about
  students at your university the way you do.  I myself
  am a Student Application Analyst at OU, and I also
  help Mac & PC users, and believe me... you've got some
  pretty fucking stupid people who go to your school.
   I can understand not knowing the DOS commands to copy,
  or learning them once and forgetting... but if you're
  doing your job, you should be able to teach them only
  once on a Mac!  That's one of the beauties of the Mac...
  no manuals to remember once someone teaches you.

   -a superior computer lab operator
    (at a better university)

Chihuahua Charlie                                 OU can't take credit for any-
andrew@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu                    thing I said above.
The University of Oklahoma
  #9 AP Basketball
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From: jefftep@cs.utexas.edu (Jeffrey Grills)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: IOMEGA Tape drive
Date: 11 Dec 1992 17:00:45 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: ozona.cs.utexas.edu

In article <1992Dec9.224236.28756@zip.eecs.umich.edu> ayman@eecs.umich.edu (Ayman I. Kayssi) writes:
>How does the IOMEGA 250 tape drive compare with the CMS Jumbo 250? Any
>good or bad experiences?
>
>Thanks for any info.
>--
>Ayman I. Kayssi                               |    ayman@eecs.umich.edu
>EECS Department                               +------------------------
>University of Michigan                        |          (313) 764-8033


I love mine.  I use it all the time.  Well, note, that quite a bit
of how much I like it is just related to being able to use a tape drive
and not floppies, but...

I really like how the drive fits in a 1" 3 1/2 drive slot.  It's
a lot quiter than some Mountain drives I've heard.  Many people I know
do not like their tape drives, but I've not met an Iomega owner like
this.

I've got CPBackup set to compare every backup, and in 1/2 year it's
only ever failed 2 files (so it rebacked those up).  Not too bad
preformance.  It's pretty quick, too.  But, I've got some
8mm dat drives at work, so I'm spoiled... Now, if only the Iomega
could read/write those...

It reads both QIC and Irwin formatted tapes.  Not a big deal
for me, but for some people it's a great life saver.

It comes with an old version of Central Point Backup.  It's pretty
cool.  it does the job.

I recommend it highly.  

(sorry for rambling a bit, but my mind's on other things and
I'm hungry, too.  see?)


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jefftep@cs.utexas.edu    |   see nothing at all.  This feeling of emptiness
Undergrad Lab, UT Austin |   flees my soul, leaving even less behind."  -me
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Amiga now kicks PC butt.
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:27:38 GMT

|In article <1992Nov26.220910.10848@bnrmtl.bnr.ca|, groleau@bnrmtl.bnr.ca (Francois Groleau) writes:

||| 	Are you happy with Windoze on your 386sx?  Do you like the way it
||| stress-test your hard disk on a continous basis?  For the record, I myself
||| bought a 486DX/33 (a Commodore PC ;-) but that's another story!) and I still
||| finds Intuition on my Amiga1000 to be more snappy than Windoze on my 486.
||| I also love to watch it painfully move those Windoze icons around when the
||| screenblanker goes on.  Now you are going to tell me "Get yourself more
||| memory and a superduper video card".  Ok, let's say I do that.  Well, I am
||| going to end up spending more than what an Amiga4000 sells for and I will
||| have to start worrying about compatibility issues.  I am considering prices
||| we have here in Canada and comparing cheap clones to an Amiga4000.

Must have Trident 8900C video. Or some inferior Commodore 
equivalent. What do these cost anyhow?







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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mpj@hemlock.cray.com (M. P. Johnson)
Subject: EXABYTE 8002 PC DRIVER WANTED
Originator: mpj@hemlock
Keywords: exabyte
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 18 Dec 92 04:19:41 CST


Hi All,

I have a 486DX-33 PC and access to an Exabyte 8002 tape drive
with SCSI interface.
I would be very interested in hearing from anyone who might have
or know where to obtain a driver program for such a device.
Please email if possible - thanks very much.
Marvin Johnson, Cray Research France.