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From: cl129502@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Are there ANY games that use 640x480?
Date: 12 Nov 92 14:32:24 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

In article <1992Nov12.021847.15193@netcom.com>, robj@netcom.com (Rob Jellinghaus) writes:
> Video boards and monitors with 640x480 resolution are becoming more
> and more common in the PC world.  Any computer running Windows has
> at least 640x480, and I know there are _lots_ of PCs running Windows.
> And 640x480 looks so enormously better than 320x200... after using
> Windows all day I can barely stand to look at a 320x200 screen--it's
> blotchy and ugly.
> 
> So the question is:  are there ANY games out there that use 640x480
> resolution?  Any at all?  I'm about to buy a PC (after years of owning
> a Mac)... please don't tell me that it will look better when doing
> work than it will playing games!

Well, when you say 640x480, I assume 640x400 would be good enough for you. 
Anyway, Links386 uses 640x400, Theatre of War uses 640x400, the
soon-to-be-released 7th Guest will use 640x480 (I believe), V for Victory is
also in 640x480, Tristan Pinball, Empire Deluxe (when its out), Spaceward
Ho!(when its released) will all use 640x400.  Most likely, more and more games
coming out will be using these SVGA modes, except for real-time action games,
when it would be nearly impossible to do it.  However, in a recent CGW, there
was a first-look at a game called I believe SVGA Warrior, or something like
that.  It used SVGA in a flight sim.  I have no idea what its like, or what it
will be like, but if the speed is good enough, it will probably be pretty good. 
Anyway, thats the rundown of the big ones.

Jude Greer
cl129502@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
cl129502@ulkyvx.bitnet
From: dudek@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Cybard=)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: ATTN. MAXIS GAME OWNERS: ever get anything?
Summary: Has anyone ever got anything after returning registration card?
Keywords: Maxis, SimCity, SimEarth, El-Fish, SimAnt
Date: 10 Nov 92 15:28:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: acsu.BxIAyv.HHo
Organization: UB

I bought SimCity and all the add-ons (Terrain Editor, Ancient & Future 
Graphics).  I sent in all the registration cards.  Now, if I remember
correctly, I was supposed to get a magazine or something, and info on their
upcoming products.  I never heard anything from them.  Has anyone ever got
anything in the mail from them?  Is there any word about SimCity 2000 or
El-Fish coming out yet?  I've tried calling twice to find out about the
magazine, and I get an answering machine, and they never called back.  Has
anyone else ever tried calling them?


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From: markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (MARC PAULIN)
Subject: Re: Wolf3D problem...
Organization: Universite de Moncton
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:27:19 GMT

In article <Bx8vJG.70@iat.holonet.net> jwilbur@iat.holonet.net (Jay Wilbur) writes:
>From: jwilbur@iat.holonet.net (Jay Wilbur)
>Subject: Re: Wolf3D problem...
>Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:16:28 GMT

>The soon-to-be released v1.4 upgrade will fix all this.

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	I don't know if people already told you that Jay, but I really 
appreciate your presence here.  What other company is using Usenet 
everyday?  What other company uses Usenet?  Talk about support and a company 
that listens to their customers.  Live long and prosper Id!!!

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From: c2s4027@tamsun.tamu.edu (Cedric Sims)
Subject: Re: Xmas Lemmings Demo Help Needed
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 20:57:01 GMT

In article <BxKu6F.4xL@cs.dal.ca> holland@ug.cs.dal.ca (Shane A Holland) writes:
>Hello!
>
>  I have the Xmas Demo version of Lemmings and I am having major trouble
>getting through the 4 th screen!  Can some one fill me in?
>
>Thanks,
>
>   Shane.    
>
>Respond via E-mail if possible please.
>
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>

I can't get past either.  Suggestions?


Thanks,
Cedrico.

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From: riiali@lut.fi (Beke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Civ. How to incite a riot?
Date: 5 Nov 92 23:48:29 GMT
Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

In article <9211051513.AA14277@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu> PCT601%SIRIUS.UKC.AC.UK@ib.rl.ac.uk (Robryche) writes:

   Last night, I amassed a reasonably large amount of money and
   cheerfully sent a diplomat to go and incite a riot in Moscow,
   the capital city of a civ that's getting too big for its boots.
   Problem is, the option was blued out. Could someone tell me
   why this is? Did I not have enough money, or is there something
   else? I made sure I was at war with them at the time.

   Disclaimer. I dont have a manual, I dont have Civ. Hell, I
   dont even have a PC. But I know someone who has all three.

You can't incite a riot in the capital city.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: ggawron@comm.mot.com (Glenn Gawron)
Subject: Wiz 7 Help Please.
Organization: Motorola
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:38:54 GMT

I'm in the Gorn Castle and I don't have the polished metal to get through 
the gate to ?outer sanctum?
Anybody remember where the polished metal/mirror is????

Thanks in advance-
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: mudrak@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (george mudrak)
Subject: Out Of This World -- Help needed!!!
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:28:32 GMT


Hello All,  

I've been playing Out of this World for awhile now and am
stuck.  ANY and ALL help would be very much appreciated. 

The situation:: 

   I've gotten to the roof of some building after my friend
helped pull me up.  We run along to the right and get to
a break between buildings.  He throws me across fine but 
when he jumps across he doesn't make it, and ends up 
grabbing some sort of cloth thing.  I've jumped into
this "alley" an managed to land on some ledge on the left
side.  I go all the way  to the left, see the guards running
away and approach the door.  I move into the door, and after
it opens I move away.  go back to the left one screen and up 
the stairs.  From there I drop down into a room, kill the 
other guard, and drop into a lower room (via chute) and shoot
the power line.  From here I get REALLY lost and stuck.  When 
I go back to my friend he's gone, and I'm stuck.  
   What am I missing???  Any walk throughs/spoilers would be
fine.  I've just been stuck awhile and want OUT!!! 

THANKS!!! 

--George 
  mudrak@rintintin.colorado.edu
From: alvin@top.cis.syr.edu (Alvin Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Spectre
Date: 9 Nov 92 22:28:27 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University CIS Dept.


   Does any one knows, if the game "Spectra" available to PC?
   How much is it?

Thank you.

Alvin

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From: tomcat@cwis.unomaha.edu (Jeffrey S. Jo)
Subject: Re: HELP: Falcon 3.0 or Jetfighter II?
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:06:17 GMT

<JCT3@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>I'll be getting a new machine soon, and therefore will
>need some new games in order to convince myself that I
>was right in shelling out big bucks for the thing.  What
>better way to do this than to buy a high speed, graphics
>intensive shootemup?

>So, which of these two games is better?  Or, if you only
>have one, what are its strengths and weaknesses?


Well, I was really disappointed with Falcon 3.0...and I have JFII.  Jetfigter
II is the best of the two because you can fly the Falcon, but also the F-14
Tomcat, F/A-18 Hornet, the YF-22 and the YF-23 (if you have the new mission
disk).  The mission disk also allows the have a wingman on some missions but
not all and the graphics are pretty good.  what I didn't like about the Falcon
3.0 was the HUD...it was really cluttered.  In JFII, the HUD is not as cluttered
and it is easier to look at.  Of course, is this all my opinion.  
 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: bhv@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (Bronis Vidugiris)
Subject: Re: Wiz7 and OrkOgre castle
Organization: Motorola, CCR&D, CORP, Schaumburg, IL
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 23:26:23 GMT
Keywords: wiz7, help

In article <lfhdgrINN133@earth.cs.utexas.edu> peterb@cs.utexas.edu (Peter James Burzynski) writes:
)Possible (minor) spoilers:
)
)
)
)
)
)I seem to be stuck in OrkOgre castle; I can't find the king, so I have no way
)to deliver the message provided by Capt. Boerigard.  I suspect this might have
)something to do with the fact that I killed the group of sentries at the
)northern border of the Gorn lands much earlier in the game.  My party,
)transferred from Bane, started in the northwest portion of the world, and, by
)the time I'd gotten to New City and run into Boerigard, I'd explored most of
)the north and west portions of the map.  Is this a possibility?  Or am I just
)missing something?  Anything specific would be appreciated, including what the
)group of sentries do or give you (if anything).  I would hate to have to start
)all over because of this.

I haven't seen anything essential from the sentries so far, so I strongly
suspect they are not essential.  In fact, I suspect the game is structured
so that you can complete it even if you kill everyone you meet - Bane
had this feature.  In a game I didn't save, I made Kymas Turan angry, and
the esssential scroll he had was 'on his body' when he died.

Anyway, I would suspect that you may need to offer bananas to the monkey.
You can get these either from Orkogre castle in the prisons (after getting
the keys from Murkato's sanctum), or from the Inn in New City.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: scotts@cpqhou.compaq.com (Scott Shaffer @ Compaq Computer Corp.)
Subject: Binaries group needed?
Organization: Compaq Computer Corp
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 16:20:38 GMT

I was wondering what net reaction would be to the thought of creating
a new binary group just to support csipg?  Something like comp.binaries.
ibm.pc.games maybe?  The only reason I suggest this is that it seems (to
me, this is not a flame) that cbip is a little slow in posting binaries, and
that somebody from this forum might moderate a group devoted soley to
games/support binaries.

This would reduce the workload of the cbip moderator, and create a usefull
group to exchange things like "I need a crack for..." or "New shareware game
I wrote..." 

I would suggest an unmoderated group, but there are two problems I see there.
One is that an unmoderated binaries group would generate a lot of unecessary
oposition from sights that simply don't want what could be a huge amount of
traffic.  The second is that undoubtly *somebody* would "accidentaly" post
a commercial game and cause a lot of hell.

Comments?

Scott

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From: nbb3647@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: wanted: OS/2 game FAQ
Date: 8 Nov 92 06:58:37 GMT
Reply-To: nbb3647@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

I skim this group occasionally and remember seeing an OS/2 FAQ in here a few
months ago.  Could someone out there please Email it to me?  I've finally
gotten around to putting it on my 486 and need some tips for installing some
games...

					Noah Bast
					nbb3647@ritvax.isc.rit.edu

call The Vanishing Point (716)889-3353 - 1200-16.8k USR Dual - 290megs 24hrs
From: tweaver@cs.umd.edu (Tom Weaver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: U7 Help (SPOILERS?)
Date: 9 Nov 92 09:15:59 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742


 must be SOO SLOW... I am having problems that are (probably) simple to 
solve...





























(1) Why is Jaana unable to heal/resurrect party members after a while?  All she
says is that she needs to rest - even if we have rested... which brings me 
to question #2...

(2) Do you need to sleep in an Inn?  is mana pt. recovery/hit pt. recovery
faster?  I usually sleep on the bedroll/ in an NPC's house (ie: Shimano's
while in Britain, Iolo's when training in Yew, Jaana's in Cove...)?  
Sometimes when I rest (and it doesn't seem to matter where I rest), I
don't recover hits and have to leave the game running and fix dinner, etc. 
while I let the Avatar and company regererate hits... :(

(3) Do I need to find an item/special coin to get Charon (the Ferryman's)
attention?  Hard to get to Skara Brae otherwise.  If there's a good way to
give me a hint without giving it away, go for it...

(4) How do I get into Hook's lair on Buccaneer's Den?  I used the Telekenesis
spell to open the door in the Baths, but can't seem to get any further.

(5) Here's a general Ultima question... This is essentially my 1st Ultima
game (played U1 years ago), and I am obviously supposed to be the Incarnation
of the Eight virtues, thus... When can I pick up items?  I imagine that taking
books/items out of "goodguy's" houses is a no-no, but what about, say, the
treasure in the Baths?  What about gambling? Or going off for a "chat" with a
hostess in the "community room" in the Baths? I get the hint when Iolo (or 
whoever) complains when I pick up stuff, but no-one does when I rummage 
through someone's house looking for clues - is it OK?  And what happens when 
you do all this bad stuff?  Do you lose experience?  Can the big, mean badguy 
kill you in the end because you weren't virtuous enough?  One reason to ask
is that I usually try all conversation options to see where the thread goes,
but am not sure that I have remembered to restore them all to the "correct"
options...

(6) How do you retrieve the shed key from Lock Lake?  Can you?  (I did think
the Wing Commander plug was cute)


and on a different note... I thought that U7 came out before the Origin/EA
merger... Why is the old city named Skara Brae, then?

Thanks (and remember, there are no stupid questions, only dumb ones)

Tom W.

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From: sgordon@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Shaun Gordon)
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:43:27 GMT
Subject: Re: "Robot Odyssey". Do you remember it ?
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games

egg@dstos3.dsto.gov.au writes:
> Does anyone remember a game called "Robot Oddysey". I had it on an apple
> II years ago and I'm trying to track it down again. Any information about
> machines it was available for, distributors or whatever information you 
> have is welcome.
>
> I don't think it ever madie it BIG but I think it was one of the moset
> challenging and fun games I've ever played. I'd like to write something
> similar using up to date technology so even comments about what you thought
> of it would be appreciated.
>
> Themie Gouthas
> egg@dstos3.dsto.gov.au
----------

As one of the original authors, I would have to agree that it's a great
game.  It was from The Learning Co., which is currently located in Fremont,
CA.  You should be able to get their 800 # from 800 information (800-555-1212).

The game was originally developed on the Apple II and later ported to the PC.
I don't think it was ever ported to any other machines, but who knows.

Hope this helps...

-Shaun Gordon
-sgordon@cup.hp.com
-hplabs!hpda!sgordon
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From: eda638jcot@vx24.cc.monash.edu.au
Subject: Jordan Inflight??
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:31:17 GMT

Does anyone have an idea when Jordan Inflight will be out.
I've seen the game in a number of mags and it looks very
impressive. It uses a combination of vector graphics and 
sprites. Electronic Arts are making it or at least publishing
it (I hope the latter).


SeeYaLater
From: ir_willi@csd.uwe.ac.uk (hello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: I  HAVE SF2ibm.zip
Date: 5 Nov 92 13:30:41 GMT
Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

I have finally got a working copy of this program.
If any one would like it .....

MAIL ir_willi@uk.ac.uwe.csd
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From: shadow@r-node.gts.org (Jay Chu)
Subject: Re: Wayne Gretzky 3 won't install
Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX Information System (416-249-5366)
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 03:07:40 GMT

In article <Bx7LED.1ur@math.uwaterloo.ca> jlhui@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Victor Hui) writes:
>    
>(3) Icing is still being called when the puck is dumped in from 
>    your own half, no matter fast or slow,  NHL rules call icing
>    only if it is dumped in behind your own blue lines

No it's not.  Icing is called when the puck is dumped behind your side
of the center line.  So the game is correct.
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From: bantz7128@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: FTP Crack sites
Date: 11 Nov 92 08:31:55 -0600
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

Does anyone know of the absolute best FTP site for game cracks?  I am growing
very tired of the word lookups and the code wheel of death!  One of the worst
examples is in Birds of Prey.  They give you a question and expect you to look
it up in the manual, giving no page numbers to help you!  Oh well...much help
would be appreciated!

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: "steven baldassarra" <steven.baldassarra@canrem.com>
Subject: cobra mission
Reply-To: "steven baldassarra" <steven.baldassarra@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 13 Nov 92 01:29:45 EST

  To: Amos Yung

AY>  Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
AY> Message-ID: <1992Nov10.005017.25200@r-node.gts.org>
AY>    Subject: Cobra Mission

AY>I am hopelessly stuck in the beginning of the Cobra Mission. I've been to
AY>the bar a few times, Club 10 (refused entrance), the Motel (which my
AY>female companion refused to go in so I can't go in either), the pharmacy,
AY>the delivery company. Now all I can do is wander around the street. Any
AY>body knows what I can do?

  A friend of mine had this problem even though he had the solution; I never
did. I think he said something about shuttling between City Hall and the broken
bridge to turn on some flags.
  Also, make sure you have talked to all the non-player characters until they
tell you nothing new.
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From: yglazami@nyx.cs.du.edu (Yevgeny Glazamitsky)
Subject: Spelljammer question
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 03:51:14 GMT

I just visited Software, etc. and they got spelljammer.  Judging from box, it
claims to be a flight sim/adventure combination.  Has anyone gotten the game
and can tell me if it is a flight sim with adventure elements or adventure with
flight sim elements?  I am not a big fan of flight sims and strong empahasis
on it would remove the game from my 'to buy' list.
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From: swkgohw@nuscc.nus.sg (Sir Launcelot Du Lac)
Subject: Looking for Bard's Tale 1,2,3
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 02:23:24 GMT

Well met Mike,

Nay, they have NOT gone out of production!  Thou canst get The Bard's
Tale Trilogy from Electronic Arts in England; I got mine several months
ago (I think 'tis 39 pound sterling).

Write to EA at the following address:


			11/49 Station Road
			Langley
			Berkshire, SL3 8YN
			England

since the pound is at an all time low now, 'tis high time to place an
order now!! :):)


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From: dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com (Danny Low)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 01:06:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Wiz7: Forbidden Zone
Organization: HP LOVECRAFT DIVISION