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From: mmwang@adobe.com (Michael Wang)
Subject: Re: pc games vs mac games
Organization: Adobe Systems Inc., Mountain View, California, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 04:13:11 GMT

In article <1h88mqINNfr@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> sls16@po.CWRU.Edu (Samuel L. Shank) writes:
>I have a Mac powerbook 160 4/40.  I have some games for it, and play
>them alot. However, I use it more for work than play.  Go into any
>software joint and you can immedately see that there are 1000's more
>games for the PC than for the Macs.  I was thinking about buyying a
>cheap PC clone to play the plethora of PC games.

>I have several questions;

>Can you make any reccomendations for a machine?  What should I look
>for?  I assume that I will want a sound card, but what type of video
>card?  What would be the "wimpiest" machine that you would reccomend
>getting.  486 is out of the question (too pricey for me for a games
>machine.)  Is a 286 too slow?  I am thinking about getting a CD rom
>for it, too.  I have seen 286s around for less than 200 bucks.  HD
>space is not important.  Do I need both 5.25" and 3.5" drives? Any
>help would be greatly appreciated, as with any mail order places that
>are reliable.  One more word, as for a graphics card, I will own in
>the not so far off future a standard VGA monitor (Leading edge .22 dot
>pitch) that I will use with my 8 bit color on my PB.  Also, I'd like
>to keep the price tag at $400 or so, maybe up to $500 if there is a
>big difference between the two levels.  Oh yeah, the $400 does not
>include monitor.  How much RAM?  Etc...

$500 (minus the monitor) isn't going to cut it if you want to get a
system that you are going to enjoy playing games on. However, if that
is all you got, then you could probably work out something like:

386/33 Basic System	$250
1 MB additional RAM	 $30
512K SVGA Video Card	 $40
40MB Hard drive		$150
Mouse			 $30
Soundblaster		 $80
                        ----
                        $580


However, I would recommended getting something like:

486/33 Basic System	$550
3 MB additional RAM	 $90
1MB SVGA Video Card	 $90
100MB Hard drive	$250
Mouse			 $30
Soundblaster		 $80
                       -----
                       $1090

The 486 would you allow to better enjoy all the hot new games that are
coming out. The 386 is already an obsolete processor if you want to
play the latest stuff. On the other hand, you could start out with the
386 and upgrade each component as you go along. The longer you wait,
the lower the prices will get. My 386/25 motherboard cost me $700 just
two years ago. Now I can get a 486/33 motherboard for $400.


-- 
Michael Wang
mmwang@mv.us.adobe.com
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From: glenns@microsoft.com (Glenn Slayden)
Subject: Re: bug in Ultima Underworld II??
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:56:16 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

ctoth@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Christopher M Toth) writes:
>	While exploring the Keep Killiron(spelling?), the program has
>started to freeze for about 5-10 seconds every 5 seconds or so. There is
>no hard drive access, the program just completely stops. I have a 486DX 50
>computer and this is the first time this has happened while playing this...
>has anyone else run into this problem??

I think this happens after playing the game for many hours.  The simple
fix is to exit the game and restart it.  Probably has to do with
fragmentation in the EMS manager?  Also, removing smartdrv (if used)
might solve the problem.  Or use a different EMS manager, i.e. 386Max
instead of EMM386.

I have not noticed any actual game play effects of this problem.

Glenn
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From: timp@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Tim Posney)
Subject: W7 help. (Spoiler)
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:17:34 GMT

Please some clever person who has done this bit help me out.

I am in the crypt and keep getting zapped by the paralysis/pain that
happens when the ghost asks for its bone combs. I have the combs, I know
what it wants, I'm ready to solve the puzzle, except I have no idea how
to give the combs to the silly thing. Any clues would be much apprecaited,
as would outright answers.

tim
From: klony@vms.huji.ac.il
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Alone in the Dark - HELP!
Date: 11 Jan 93 22:35:57 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ok, I have finished the floor below the attic (i think) but I can't get past
the Devils guarding the steps down. Do I just have to try and fight them,
or is there soem other trick?

					- Michael

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From: vonk@cs.rochester.edu (Peter VonKaenel)
Subject: Re: os/2
Organization: University of Rochester
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:17:51 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.232342.2264@choate.edu> drizzt@spock.uucp (Neela Jacques) writes:
>In article <1993Jan5.190420.24984@apgea.army.mil> rcmerrit@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>) writes:
>>
>>Does anyone have a list of what games work, and work well, under os/2 2.0?
>>
>>Rob Merritt
>
>WHO CARES!!!

In answer to the question, most games seem to work well in OS/2.  I have
heard that U7 and Max Overkill don't work at all.  All games I have tried
work fine however.

In response to the capitalized response, MORE PEOPLE THAN YOU COULD IMAGINE!!!
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From: zlg1409@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Zhenhai Li )
Subject: Re: Dune II and stacker? Os/2? 
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 06:44:54 GMT

rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:

>Well, having read the raving, can someone tell meif Dune II
>will work with Stacker (3.0) or under OS/2?

>Where can I find a general description of the game (i.e. is it close
>to civilization, or more like an action game?)

Yes duneII works under os/2.
Just GET it already, I'd like to see you find a guy that says it sucks.
Other notes,
When you can't build anymore buildings, the computer can only keep
track of so many buildings at a time. To fix this, destroy the enemy's
buildings, the computer dosn't rebuild.

Later,
Z.

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From: rockwood@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: Flight Simulator 4.0 Info
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:54:47 GMT

In the MSDOS_UPLOADS directory at wuarchive, I found a new file (Jan 10 
upload) called fsplane.zip. I read the text file which indicated it 
included several new aircraft for use with FS4. I downloaded the Zipped 
file and tried to unzip it. No luck. My PKUNZIP indicated it couldn't 
'handle' the file. I read the text file again. It said unzipping requires 
PKUNZIP version 2.04. Where do I find version 2.04? Any help would be 
appreciated.

Also while on the subject of FS4, Aside from the couple of scenery files on 
Lowell.edu, are there any other sites which have FS4 add-ons (scenery files
, assist files for A&SD, extra aircraft etc.) A few months ago I managed to 
get some files from CompuServe's Flight Simulator forum which has hundreds 
of them, but it just began to become too costly. I'd like to see more of 
them on a site such as Lowell which has dedicated a subdirectory in it 
Games Directory to Flight Simulator (FltSim). There are quite a few of us 
who are afficianados of FS4 and would like to see more Add-Ons for the 
program at a location where we can FTP them.

Any news on Flight Simulator 5.0? I read in this newsgroup some time ago 
that it was in the works, but haven';t heard anything since. Any idea on 
what the new version will contain, and whether it will support more video 
modes and extended memory?

Please E-Mail to rockwood@kean.ucs.mun.ca

Thanks in advance.

Art Rockwood
St. John's Nfld.
From: ks108@cus.cam.ac.uk (K. Shen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Legends of Valour: UnderWorld clone
Date: 5 Jan 93 18:35:39 GMT
Organization: U of Cambridge, England


About the cost of magazine and cover discs, Jared Thorlakson writes:

>I thought the disks themselves were provided free by the company that
>wants to advertise the software.  The only aditional costs are those of 
>shipping. 

Since the magazine is a UK magazine, and I am in the UK, shipping is not
the problem. Although the program might be provided free, you still need
to pay for the cost of the floppy disc. I think that does add significantly
to the production costs of the magazine.

--Kish Shen
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From: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT])
Subject: Re: Empire?
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:14:39 GMT

carlson@ucunix.san.uc.edu (David Carlson) writes:

>>But I'd suggest you just go out and buy Civilization, which is the
>>best game ever in this genre, and make the Mac weenies green with
>>envy.
>>
>I disagree.  Civilization is definitely a great game, but it doesn't
>have what makes Empire great...Multiple Human Players...

Is it or will it be networkable ?

Regards

Christoph Weber-Fahr

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From: menchett@pyramid.unr.edu (Peter J Menchetti)
Subject: Re: Stunt Islaand
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno  Department of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 09:47:09 GMT
Distribution: usa
X-Posted-From: pyramid.cs.unr.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Who cares!?!?? I usually just look the other way when I see MJ anyhow! 
Bill Clinton apparently feels the same way... Michael offered to be the
guest of honor at one of the pres-elect's inaugural parties and Billy said,
"No Thanks."  --MTV

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From: wayne@eng.umd.edu (Wayne C. McCullough)
Subject: Ultima 7 errors -- please help.
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 20:19:25 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park

I recently tried to install  Ultima 7 onto my dad's new system...
(compudyne 486sx33, Orchid Farinhiet, 4 meg ram, mouse, etc)  With some
strugle it got through the intro, and got through the new char thing.

When I try and save it though, I get an error: c:\games\ult7\temp0003.$$$ 
not found, but the file is sitting there plainly where is belongs.  The
patch that came w/ FOV made now differance.  I tried installing the game 
twice on this machine, no differance.

The same set of disks installed succesfully two 2 differant machines in 
identical or similar directory structures.  I am hoping you all can
save me a call to texas, that will probably be still busy from the xmas
season.

W
From: klony@vms.huji.ac.il
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Alone in the Dark & SBPro
Date: 11 Jan 93 10:33:49 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

My SB Pro doesn't seem to be working with Alone in the Dark. There is a little
postscript in the back of the manual sayiong something like "if you don't wish
to reconfigure your card, set the sound to SB not SBPRO". Reconfigure it from
what? My card has all the default settings on it : 220 7 1!

						- Michael
From: ccastks@prism.gatech.EDU (Kevin Stallard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Hints needed
Summary: I need more help than a pegleg at a butt kicking contest.
Keywords: hint
Date: 7 Jan 93 19:08:21 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology


 I need help/hints/solves/walthroughs for the following.

Star Control 2
Might and Magic 4 (Clouds of Xeen)
Terminator 2029

  An ftp site with any or all of the above would also be helpful.

Also, If anyone has Wing Commander II Special Ops 2, I will trade any of
the other Wing Commander I/II Spec Ops/Secret Missions disks for it.

Thanks

_____________________________________________________________________________
Kevin Stallard                    " There is no problem that an accurately 
Georgia Institute of Technology,    placed shot from a .44 Magnum cannot 
ccastks@prism.gatech.edu            solve. " 
-- 
_____________________________________________________________________________
Kevin Stallard                    " There is no problem that an accurately 
Georgia Institute of Technology,    placed shot from a .44 Magnum cannot 
ccastks@prism.gatech.edu            solve. " 
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From: rwebb@nyx.cs.du.edu (Russell Webb)
Subject: Re: Ultima Underworld II QUESTION
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 21:22:37 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.182409.25699@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> cs922102@ariel.yorku.ca (MARTIN J WITKOWSKI) writes:
>After playing UW II for over 12 hours straight, I think I may be stuck.
>I got down to level 5, and found the "blackrock gem"...however, I am 
>unclear on what to do...Nelson mentioned that music may have something to do
>with it.
>How do I advance to the next "world" ?!?!
>

The following isn't really a spoiler, but I've put plenty of newlines in
for those unwitting reader who don't actually want any sort of hints.























Just examine the gem.  One (or more) facets with light up slightly, in
sequence.  Walk forward into a gem face as it is lit up, and see what
happens then.  Keep walking around the gem until you find a lit facet--
I didn't notice this at first.

-Russell
rwebb@nyx.cs.du.edu
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From: darrylo@sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata)
Subject: Re: bug in Ultima Underworld II??
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:13:01 GMT
Reply-To: darrylo@sr.hp.com
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Center for Primal Scream Therapy
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8.1]

Christopher M Toth (ctoth@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) wrote:

> 	While exploring the Keep Killiron(spelling?), the program has
> started to freeze for about 5-10 seconds every 5 seconds or so. There is
> no hard drive access, the program just completely stops. I have a 486DX 50
> computer and this is the first time this has happened while playing this...
> has anyone else run into this problem??

     No, but we've run into two other bugs:

1. (Minor) Occasionally, UW2 crashes with "error D004".  I seem to
   recall that this is an "out of memory" error (but I could be wrong).
   This is on a PC with over 600K low mem and plenty of
   extended/expanded memory.  It seems to occur mostly while restoring a
   game after playing for a while.  The workaround is simple: save often
   (say, every 5 minutes or so), and exit UW2 before restoring a game.

2. (Potentially nasty) We ran into what *APPEARED* to be an inventory
   bug: after playing the game for awhile, the graphics for the objects
   in our inventory became corrupted, and the game's notion of how much
   the character was carrying, increased (i.e., the game suddenly
   thought that the character was carrying less, even though the
   character was loaded almost to the max -- we were, however, maxed out
   for quite a long time).  After that, things rapidly fell apart:
   certain commands would not work, the mouse cursor occasionally
   vanished, trying to identify an item would place the cursor into
   "enter text on map mode" (even though the map was not even being
   displayed, etc.).  The game eventually crashed.  After restarting the
   game (again and again -- the game crashed in a similar fashion a
   number of times after restarting from the *SAME* point), we managed
   to do something to un-wedge the game and continue onward (we tried
   all sorts of games with dropping items from our inventory, just in
   case it was another inventory bug).

     -- Darryl Okahata
	Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com

DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not
constitute the support, opinion or policy of Hewlett-Packard or of the
little green men that have been following him all day.
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From: "steven baldassarra" <steven.baldassarra@canrem.com>
Subject: falcon 3.01
Reply-To: "steven baldassarra" <steven.baldassarra@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 10 Jan 93 18:08:49 EST

DS>  You tell 'em man ...F15 III is weak  ..Falcon 3.0 still is on top

  However, in F3, the amount, drag, and weight of the ordnance seem to
have little effect on the agility of the player's F-16. Only the wingmen
seem to be concerned by their ordnance enough to dump their ordnance when
they are evading a missile.
---
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--
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From: towel@elcsci.com (Big Wilber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Atrain embezzeling--How?
Date: 28 Dec 92 04:29:49 PST
Organization: Electro Scientific Industries, Portland OR

In article <1992Dec27.233741.27696@netcom.com>, grego@netcom.com (greg huff) writes:
> Hi, does anyone know how to embezzel funds for Atrain?  I like the game, 
> but it runs a little slow. There must be away to get more money.
> It would sure speed up the game.
> Thanks for any hints.

If you need to embezzel funds, you are doing something wrong.  my biggest
problem, is, how to keep from making too much money  :)

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From: ghelf@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;RD48)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: V For Victory
Date: 9 Jan 1993 16:51:12 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu
Keywords: wargames

>Any tips on how this name is pronounced?   

Well...  "Vee for Vik-tor-ee"

No, seriously, its roughly "vee-LEE-kee-ye loo-KEY" where "ee" is like 
in "Genreal Lee" and "ye" is like in "yeah team" and "loo-KEY" is like 
a Brit would say "bathroom key" and caps mean stressed syllable.

PS, a little trivia: I looked up the VL operation in my Soviet Military
Encyclopedia, and they date the operation from 24 November 1942 to
20 January 1943, while the game goes from 15 November, which means if
you follow the historic timetable, all those divisions that come in the
second week are for the opeation itself, and you should sit and prepare
for the first part of the game.  The Russians themselves seem to rate it
as a failure, with the typical formula of "well, the Germans won but they
had to throw a whole lot of divisions at us there and lots of fascist
occupiers died in the snow."


-- 
Gavin Helf
UC Berkeley Political Science
Berkeley-Stanford Program in Soviet Studies
ghelf@violet.berkeley.edu
From: galenr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (Galen Raben)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:20:50 GMT
Subject: Re: STAR TREK: 25th anniv. (HELP & tips)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Greeley, CO
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games, hblim@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg (Lim Huey Bing) writes:

>I'm stuck at the machines room in the cave in Demon's World. What should I do
>with the control panel with sliders. Does the abstract "art" thing above it
>help us in selecting the values on the sliders?

If I remember correctly set all the sliders so that each bar display is
half on...

>BTW, despite all the earlier postings that the initial simulation can't be won,
>IT IS POSSIBLE to win the fight. The trick is to maintain warp 8 throughout the
>battle, whether you get hit or not. Keep your eyes on the enemy ship on the
>radar and then only focus on the main viewer when the two dots are about to
>merge. There is no need to switch to big screen view 'cos at warp 8 your ship
>will travel too fast pass the enemy after hitting it the first few times; you
>need the radar to tell you where to travel.

Yes, I've done it that way too...

>Lim Huey Bing   at  hblim@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg

- Galen -
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From: raellero@vela.acs.oakland.edu (ELLERO ROGER A)
Subject: * UW for SALE CHEAP! *
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:47:14 GMT

For sale:

Ultima Underworld for IBM PC / compatible.  Requires at least 
a 386 w/ 2 meg ram, about 10 meg of hard drive space, 
and a mouse. Includes all original disks (3.5 inch) and documentation, 
in excellent condition. I'll also include a 3.5 inch disk containing the 
uwfix.exe patch (and the text file that goes with it).

Price is $25, and I'll cover the postage. This is an incredible deal!!
Send me email if you want to buy. First person whose message I get gets dibs
on the game. Please don't send email if you're not sure you want it because
I don't want to turn anyone away if someone else changes his mind.

Roger Ellero 
raellero@vela.acs.oakland.edu

____________________________________________________________________________
From: jmains@engr.latech.edu (John P. Mains)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Laura Bow II --Dagger A.Ra
Date: 10 Jan 1993 05:13:16 GMT
Organization: Louisiana Tech University
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: jmains@engr.latech.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: altair.latech.edu

SPOILERS....


I have gotten to the room with all the mummy casings, with a mummy in one, a mummy and
teddy bear in another, and have opened another by pulling down the snake on top
of the case.  But if I try and enter the case the dude in black immediately comes and
kills me!  I have fought with this for too long.  How do you get in the case and
how is that man or woman in black killed?
----------------
Thanx
JP
From: cg533@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James Eugene Alloway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Where is Empire Deluxe?
Date: 6 Jan 1993 13:49:35 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I called Chips & Bits (a game retailer) and they said it wouldn't be out til
March.  We'll see.
  Gene
From: al885@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gerard Pinzone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Joy stick blues II
Date: 6 Jan 93 04:20:21 GMT
Reply-To: al885@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gerard Pinzone)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, donovan@cadzook.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (David.Donovan) says:

>
>Has anyone else noticed a problem with trying to 
>use two joysticks? ie player one has joystick one
>player two has joystick two.
>
>Most of the two player games that I have don't 
>seem to work correctly when using both joysticks.
>Ether joystick by its' self works.
>
>
Some game ports on I/O cards are not even tested for the second Joystick!
Beware....thank goodness my SB Pro has it built in.
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