HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: omf@oolong.hacks.arizona.edu (Oscar Fowler)
Newsgroups: alt.games.lynx
Subject: Re: Rampart
Date: 14 Sep 92 06:25:03 GMT
Reply-To: omf@oolong.hacks.arizona.edu
Distribution: na,local
Organization: Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-a4

In article <1992Sep14.000616.5852@csus.edu>, wangf@athena.ecs.csus.edu (Franklin Wang) writes...
>Me and my friend were interested in this game considering the fact
>that you can link up....The question is....Is this game worth
>the money? Is it a FUN game???

I've never played Rampart with two players before, but I think it's
an EXCELLENT one player game.  I've gotten to level four and haven't
quite passed it yet.  Also great is Shadow of the Beast, which I just
picked up.  Best graphics yet!  (This is one player only though).

#############################################################################

               "If you can't lick'em, put 'em on with a big piece of tape."

Oscar Fowler
omf@tiamat.hacks.arizona.edu
From: kjohnson@castor.cs.uga.edu (Kristopher Johnson)
Newsgroups: alt.games.lynx
Subject: Re: Re: Lynx v GameGear v Gameboy
Date: 10 Sep 92 04:33:04 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

My local TARGET store gets a lot of SNES systems returned defective
as well as (too many) Game Gear's.
From: btribble@terapin.com (Bobby Tribble)
Newsgroups: alt.games.lynx
Subject: Re: LYNX: Shadow of the Beast is out
Date: 6 Sep 92 15:23:57 PST
Organization: BBS

In article <92250.114905SML108@psuvm.psu.edu>, <SML108@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>The subject says it all.  Let's all time how long it takes Robert Jung to
>review it, he's been slacking off lately :-)...
>
So, um, did you buy it?  The stores around here (Toys R Us, Good Guys,
Babbages, Elec. B) usually get games about a month after they're mentioned here
that they're released...sigh.

Bobby Tribble  |8')
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From: jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Stephen Jonke)
Newsgroups: alt.games.lynx
Subject: Lynx games wanted!
Date: 12 Sep 92 18:03:33 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

I'm interested in buying copies of all the following games:

Slime World (1 to 3 copies)
Shanghai (1 or 2 copies)
Paperboy
Rampage (1 to 3 copies)
Checkered Flag (1 to 3 copies)
Pinball Jam (wishful thinking!)

Name your price (and include the shipping).  I prefer simultaneous
exchanges.

Steve
From: hennessy@acsu.buffalo.edu (Mathew A. Hennessy)
Newsgroups: alt.games.lynx
Subject: Re: TEMPEST would be nice
Date: 11 Sep 92 18:14:49 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <WELCH.92Sep11131306@sacral.cis.ohio-state.edu> welch@sacral.cis.ohio-state.edu (Arun Welch) writes:
>
>Uhh, how would you propose they do the rotating control knob?  Tempest using
>the control pad would be a big lose, IMHO...

	you could have the control pad work aka gyruss' joystick..  won't
substitute a paddle but it's better than nuthin.. 

	oh btw get RAMPART it's great

>
>...arun
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Arun Welch
>Lisp Systems Programmer, Lab for AI Research, Ohio State University
>welch@cis.ohio-state.edu


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From: IGJF400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU (STEVE FULTZ)
Newsgroups: alt.games.lynx
Subject: scrapyard dog
Date: 9 Sep 92 22:13:03 GMT
Organization: IUPUI

How do you get past the tank?
From: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
Newsgroups: alt.games.lynx
Subject: Re: Re: Lynx v GameGear v Gameboy
Date: 10 Sep 1992 02:27:57 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, time@hpcvra.cv.hp.com (Tim Emmerich) says:

>/ hpcvra:alt.games.lynx / <DLM155@psuvm.psu.edu> /  7:03 pm  Sep  8, 1992 /
>I have seen both the game gear and lynx in action (I feel that the Gameboy is
>not worth the effort). They are almost identical. Game gear is lighter & has
>higher resolution. Lynx has a bigger screen (3.5" vs 3.2", but it does make
>lower resolution more noticeable) and what I think is a better selection of
>games. Personally I have a game gear, partly because I think Sega is much less
>apt to give up on it, and mostly because I got a good deal. Also I do know one
>Lynx owner who is on his 3rd one. Two have gone bad. Probably a freak situat-
>ion, take it as you like.
>                                     John E. Runski
>                                     Soon to be <jer108@psuvm>
>
>Yo John,
>	I have three Lynx classics and none of them have gone bad!  I
>agree with your comment on the Gameboy though.
>	One thing I love about the Lynx is I can play my favorite
>arcade games on it (Xenophobe, APB, STUN Runner, Hydra, Paperboy, etc.).
>	BTW, I am biased.  I think Sonic is an original game but
>how does it look on the little screen?
>
>Nevertheless play on.
>Tim
>
>****************************************************
>**  Tim Emmerich  aka Vidiot  *  Proud Lynx Owner  *
>**                            *  Proud TG16 Owner  *
>****************************************************
>*  Defeated Paperboy, Rygar, Xenophobe  * LoveBonk *
>*  Working on APB (Day 22), Xybots (LVL39)         *
>*            and Zalor Mercenary(Last Mission)     *
>****************************************************
>


The original Lynx can't be beat when it comes to lasting forever.

I have the original one and I had a new one.  The new one broke several
months after I bought it.  I got a lot of good use out of it though.

But, I have to say that it isn't made to last as well of the first
one...


I'd say if Atari made the joypad better, the buttons better, and
the option buttons so they didn't rest on the LCD screen, the
Lynx would be fantastic and I would own 10 of them.

By the way, I'm told that many more people have problems with
the Game Gear than the Lynx.  When asked a salesperson which video
game systems out of all the systems, which have the most returns due
to defect, he said Game Gear.


I wrote the new guy who is in charge of Atari Entertainment and
told him about the problems I mentioned.  I didn't get a response.

I bet they are making the Lynx systems better than they did when
I first bought one of the newer models.




P.S. If Atari did stop supporting the Lynx after this year, it would
be no big deal.  The system would have over 80 titles by then and
many third-party titles on the way.

--
From: kjohnson@castor.cs.uga.edu (Kristopher Johnson)
Newsgroups: alt.games.lynx
Subject: Re: Falcon and Jaguar?
Date: 4 Sep 92 23:18:17 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <1992Sep2.231710.27357@adobe.com> cpage@adobe.com (Chris Page) writes:
>What are Falcon and Jaguar? I gather Falcon is a new computer and
>Jaguar is a game machine, but what are the details? Obviously most
>of this group has already talked about them, but I guess I came in
>late. Is there another newsgroup which talks more about them?

Yes, the Falcon is Atari's new line of computers and the Jaguar is
their new 32/64-bit game console.  To cut R&D costs, Atari is using
some of the same technologies on both the Falcon and Jaguar, so be
expecting the Jaguar to have graphics comparable to that of the 
Falcon030 (e.g. from 384x240 to as high as 768x480 with up to 
65,536 colors out of 262,144) and also comparable audio (e.g. 8
channel, 16-bit stereo).  Of course, the Jaguar would also have some
things the Falcon030 doesn't have to 'specialise' it more as a game
console.

Steve
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From: paranoid@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (paranoid)
Newsgroups: alt.games.lynx,rec.games.video
Subject: Lynx Developers Kit & EPROMs
Date: 7 Sep 92 05:02:00 GMT
Organization: rather tidy

I was just thinking... Would it be possible to use the Lynx developer's kit
to make a game, then take the code and burn that into an EPROM? From there,
(Here's where things get sketchy...) soldering the EPROM to oh, say, an old
game card's metal contacts, in order to play the game you made on any Lynx?

If so, it would be incredible. Making games like Klax might be out of the
question but you could transfer Amiga IFF's and sounds with ease (Being part of
the kit, right?) and perhaps a small calculator.. Lots of things. And, hey..
if quite a few people do this, they could release their programs for the
Lynx in the public domain, for others to download and burn their own EPROMs.

Sounds like a great idea to me.. Although I think it's a bit out there. I see
problems getting the EPROM and card together. Fitting in the Lynx, and if an
old game were used, the contacts would have to be broken between the metal
contacts and the old game ROM. (Switches? Perhaps an 'empty' game card?)
Also would the necessary EPROM be availible at Radio Shack (Or someplace)?

The developer's kit also isn't cheap, I bet...

Anyone think it's possible?


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Newsgroups: alt.games.lynx,rec.games.video
Subject: Re: [LYNX] Storing those carts...
From: omf@smaug.hacks.arizona.edu (Oscar Fowler)
Date: 15 SEP 92 17:12:39    
Reply-To: omf@hacks.arizona.edu
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-a4  

In article <9485@travis.csd.harris.com>, srp@travis.csd.harris.com ( Stephen Pietrowicz) writes...
>This might have already been mentioned...but you know what works just
>great?  Nintendo Game Boy boxes....the little plastic jobbies that hold
>the Gameboy carts.  

First of all, are the GB boxes easily available anywhere?  Secondly,
is there a nice case to hold THOSE boxes?

#############################################################################

               "If you can't lick'em, put 'em on with a big piece of tape."

Oscar Fowler
omf@hacks.arizona.edu
From: pbh@jake.cc.wayne.edu (Patrick Haggood)
Newsgroups: alt.games.lynx
Subject: Re: Lynx game prices
Keywords: lynx, price
Date: 14 Sep 92 21:37:15 GMT
Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit

In article <1992Sep14.073215.21196@news.iastate.edu> locher@iastate.edu (Robert C Locher) writes:
>
>Hello all,
>
>I was at a Babbages in Des Moines, IA (yes, there is life out here!) and
>I saw S.T.U.N. Runner for $33-something.  I compared this to the
>suggested retail prices posted by Rob Jung on June 20, which has it for
>$39.99.  Is this a nationwide trend, or am I just slightly lucky?  Does
>anybody have an updated list?  It's always nice to know if one is being
>ripped off or not.
>
>				- Rob
>
>P.S.  Is anybody with a Lynx in Ames reading?  I wanna Lynx-up!  I've
>never done it before.
>
Here in Michigan, Babbages tends to run less than retail, Montgomery
Wards and Toys R Us tend to run full retail.  Toys R Us also has more 
likelyhood of actually having the title than Babbages, tho.  I went
to a really neat store in Orlando on my vacation a couple weeks ago
called Beyond Electronics.  Not a great selections, but they had the 
games out of the box in a display case, and if you asked they'd let you
try them out.  I tried all they had and bought two.  Before that, I'd
only purchased games which I'd enjoyued in the arcade (Xenophobe,
Gauntlet) save one sorry case.  This salesguy gave me this glowing
review of electrocop so I purchased it without seeeing it.  Big mistake.
I'm not a puzzle person.  It's a shame there isn't a store around where
you can try out a game before shelling out $40 on something that you're
gonna hate.  Never again.  If I can't play it, I'm sticking to arcade 
translations.  Now if RaiDen and Rolling Thunder would ever get 
released.  Maybe I'll get Robotron for $20 at the Toys R Us....
  
purchased g

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From: jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Stephen Jonke)
Newsgroups: alt.games.lynx,rec.games.video
Subject: 1 player in 2 player areas (Rampart-Lynx)
Date: 12 Sep 92 17:54:51 GMT
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

I stumbled across a hidden feature of Rampart on the Lynx.  When playing an
"veteran" one player game, it is possible to play on one of the two player
battle fields.  I'm not sure of the exact circumstances in which you are
allowed to do this, but in this particular case, I had played the first
round on the battle field at the very top of the map, then I chose as the
second battle field, the one on the left (initially, you only have a choice
of three.)  After finishing that battle, you seemingly can only choose the
one remaining battle area, but if you press a direction on the joypad, the
cursor (highlighting of a battle area) will dissappear.  If you then start,
you will be on one of the two player battle fields.  I think that you actually
can choose from any of them, by continuing to move the cursor off screen,
but I'm not sure.  I don't know what happens if you finish one of the two
player rounds, because I failed to do so!

Steve
From: paladin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Robin Yang)
Newsgroups: alt.games.lynx
Subject: 4-player Warbirds
Date: 13 Sep 92 08:18:43 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucscb.ucsc.edu


Yes, this is fun, isn't it?  The writer of Warbirds hosts a tournament
at a local con every laborday weekend and I get to play all sorts of people
in 4-player mode.  Winner even gets a complete lynx set plus the warbirds
cart.  Too bad you can't play over a modem (would you believe the comlynx
transmits at less than 300 baud?) but I suppose the player reactions wouldn't
be as fun then.
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is talking to us.  Death wants to tell us a funny secret.  We may not like
death but death likes us.  Guns tell the truth.  Guns never say, "Just
kidding."  War is ugly because the truth can be ugly and war is very sincere.
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From: macman@Apple.COM (Danny Schwendener)
Newsgroups: alt.games.lynx
Subject: Re: Cartridge Problem: Xenophobe : (
Date: 8 Sep 92 23:29:53 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

>>Last night I went to play Xenophobe and when I turned on my Lynx, there  
>>were two bright lines across the otherwise dark screen, and the game  
>>wouldn't "boot."  I turned off the unit and turned it back on.  This time  
>>the title screen came up, but the Copyright portion was cut off, and the  
>>title screen never left.  It looks to me as if, for some strange reason,  
>>the cartridge is broken.  Why do they break?  Has anyone else had problems  
>>with their cartridges breaking after a while?

This (or the "insert game" message) is most often due to a sector or two 
that couldn't be read correctly from the cartridge. Try cleaning the
contacts on the cartridge, it usually helps (it has helped me several times).

-- Danny Schwendener
   macman@apple.com
From: ar354@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jason Perusek)
Newsgroups: alt.games.xtrek
Subject: RPG GAME! FULLY TESTED $25
Date: 12 Sep 92 23:50:41 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


Brochure says.
 
 
                             Bio - Tech
                       THE ROLE PLAYING GAME
 
            Written and Illustrated by: Jason J. Tomaric
 
BIO - TECH
Time: 3025
Location: 3rd dimension, Earth
 
You are a member of a very distinct startfleet known as the Galactic
Federation. Your mission, explore space in hopes of expanding, 
charting space, and meeting other lifeforms.  That has all changed now,
and you are also fighting for your life and for the life of the entire
human species agianst an enemy so powerful, the greatest minds in the
Federation never thought could exist. They are known as the Yanchunii,
and they have sent their elite battle fleet called they Bio - Trons to 
come and assimilate the universe's cultures. You must retrieve the 
almost extinct human race and attempt to destroy this enemy before they
assimilate... everything.
 
Bio - Tech: The Role Playing Game has many great features to its fully
developed stucture.  The main handbook contains:
   
       o Over 190 pages
       o Over 50 detailed illustrations
       o Valuable charts for quick-find info
       o Fully explained instructions designed for the beginner,
         but challenging enough for the expert
       o a 17 page adventure
       o Federation startships stats
       o Sections describing Command Functions and starship facilities
       o Galactic Federation regulations
       o a regular and combat glossary
       o a Bio-Tech timeline
       o over 120 character skills
       o a variety of weapons and equipment
       o a variety of starships and other vehicles
       o The game has been fully test played
 
Additional text and supplements also available. Inquire at 
ar354@Cleveland.Freenet.edu for further information, prices, costs,
questions, and or publishing dates.
  
Check it out :)
-- 
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Snap Snap :)
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Newsgroups: alt.games.xtrek
From: lindh@uhasun.hartford.edu (Andrew Lindh)
Subject: xtrek server
Organization: The University of Hartford
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:43:13 GMT
X-Posted-From: stimpy.hartford.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu


You can try 'xtrek.hartford.edu'
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From: mya@tsoft.sf-bay.org (Mark AuBuchon)
Newsgroups: alt.culture.usenet
Subject: Re: Fuck You All
Date: 15 Sep 92 07:22:41 GMT
Organization: The TeleSoft BBS and Public Access Unix, +1 415 969 7958

>for the big, super-surprise ending? NO BLACK PRESIDENTS!!!   Yet somehow
>this fact is evidence to you that black people are less intelligent than
>white people.  How can you go through college and yet learn nothing?
>Astonishing.
  
Well actually, I'd see this a sign of quite high intelligence. Would you
want to put-up with all the *!#*@ that it takes to get elected and
serve as president to today?!
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From: forda@gtephx.UUCP (Andrew Ford @ AGCS, Phoenix, Arizona)
Subject: Re: NetNews Contract? NOT!
Organization: gte
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:57:20 GMT

In article <2AA4BFF3.6F13@tct.com>, chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> According to forda@gtephx.UUCP (Andrew Ford @ AGCS, Phoenix, Arizona):
> >The fact that the net is not a legal entity does not preclude its
> >physical existence nor your desire to be part of it.
> 
> But it does preclude the creation of a _legally_ enforceable contract.

But that does not preclude the creation of a legally enforceable contract
between you and each of the owners of the computers that make up the
net which you wish to be a part of.


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Newsgroups: alt.culture.us.asian-indian
From: alok@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (alok.vijayvargia)
Subject: Re: how old must i be to call myself an adult? (was Re: Friendships)
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 21:47:08 GMT

> In article <1992Sep4.212814.10706@menudo.uh.edu> mece1xg@Rosie.UH.EDU writes:
> >communication.  as long as communication exists, i think these
> >problems will eventually work out.  the problem lies not in the
> >ages of parents and/or children, but in the level of communication
> >between them.  just as a child grows, so must a parent to meet his/her
> >needs.
> 

I agree. Parent <----> Child communication is extremely important.
Lack of open communication between children and parents in many Indian 
families has caused the current crisis about dating/arranged marriages 
and subsequent family problems.

Children are dating without informing parents. Parents are looking 
a match for their children via the arranged marriage system, quite
often without even giving any hint that they are doing so.

When the time comes and the two discover each other's approach
there is 'explosion' and unhappiness. Many are hurt - fathers have died
of heart attacks, children have committed suicides (extreme cases) ...

All this could be avoided if there was open communication among
the children and the parents from the beginning. It is the parent's
responsibility to encourage such open communication. It is the children's
responsibility to 'listen' to what the parent says.

Alok
From: Naseer Khan <khan@us17501.mdc.com>
Subject: Re: parents and their IA kids
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 16:36:21 GMT
Organization: Somewhere in Sunny Southern California
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In article ... Shashi Sathaye, shashi@aix3090b.uky.edu writes:

>So what is special about IA children's case? - that the extended family
is not
>here. The parent who wants desperately to access his/her childhood for
answers
>comes up with rather one-sided views. They remember that they 'obeyed'
their
>elders but forget what kind of fight they did put on most trivial
matters such
>as what should one wear and when. In case of girls, how long they should
stay
>out after dark and so on. I remember a friend of mine telling his son
what
>he did when he was his son's age to which the son responded 'oh, but
grandpa
>says you were just as stubborn.' This is possible because grandpa is
just in the

You're right.  Memory is a funny thing, and quite selective.  If parents 
use this as a major source of guidance, rather than rely on the here and 
now, I wouldn't wonder if people have trouble.

A good part of my extended family is here (in America).  Plus we also 
know a lot about my parents from when they were in their early twenties, 
because of relatives/friends talking about life, etc.  And I think it 
does make a difference.  My parents don't do as much of the "When I was
your age" etc.  Except when they did do something good...!!!  The thing I 
like about my Dad is that he argues based on what he has seen/experienced 
and how he thinks presently.  He'll back up"guidelines", when pressed,
and 
point out reasons that should make sense here and now.

      |      |                        Signed:  Naseer Khan
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