Ah, but the other 4500 bytes is used for the NFO message ragging on all the other
pirate groups for not releasing the patch first!
"His and Hos to The Software Surgeon and Mack the Hack
THG - Get a life
FiRM - Nice job on Populous"
hahahahaha
Jim Leonard wrote:
> Chris Newman wrote:
> >
>
Side item on that note... I've seen games that were uploaded hacked so
badly they bore little resemblance to the originals. Sadly, I bet people
who look to contribute see a title up on a site, and never check it (why
bother?) The worst one's I've personally experienced:
Captain Goodnight (a
1) You could always write a script and pipe it through DEBUG
2) When I was in HS or college I wrote a small assembly-language
interpreter ( 400-600 bytes or so), and wrote a Pascal program that
generated byte code. The interpreter was solely for making sector edits.
The pascal program com
In a message dated 07/31/2001 9:38:27 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I've done this, but been left with some gunky, sticky residue. How should
I
get rid of that? De-Solv-It? >>
That is correct :)
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> Are you sure about Phantis? Because Lorna was the one that had a blonde on
> the cover, holding a big weapon and surrounded by small monsters.
Well.. there were a LOT of games with that motif. :)
http://www.computeremuzone.com/fichas/p/phantis.htm
this shows both the Phantis and Game Over 2 co
> And do you remember if Phantis and Game Over 2 had the same Royo drawing
on
> the box?
>No. Phantis had a cover drawn by Aspiri (it was a blonde with a bunch of
>goblin type things around her) and the Game Over 2 cover was the one done
by
>Royo.
Are you sure about Phantis? Because Lorna was
> And do you remember if Phantis and Game Over 2 had the same Royo drawing
on
> the box?
No. Phantis had a cover drawn by Aspiri (it was a blonde with a bunch of
goblin type things around her) and the Game Over 2 cover was the one done by
Royo. I really think that the Royo pic was just a random
Dan Chisarick wrote:
>
> Older drives use a mechanical switch (push-button), newer drives use a
> beam of light. While I've never done it, I can't imagine it being harder
> than connecting the wires that went to the mechanism to a toggle-switch...
Since the only drives that I use to do this
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In a message dated 07/28/2001 12:53:11 AM Central Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> << Ah, no you don't! Just take your disk drive out and modify it to close the
> circuit on the write-protect mechanism. I have one drive modified this way
> specifica
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> The hairdryer is the best to
> get off tape/stickers etc.
I've done this, but been left with some gunky, sticky residue. How should I
get rid of that? De-Solv-It?
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Chris Newman wrote:
>
> :) "I need to write a program that will do a 4 byte patch of a save game file.
> Should I compile a 5K assembly routine that will do the job is 3 picoseconds, or
> should I use Visual C++ with 45 megs of inline compiled DLLs, and requires a Wise
> installation routine, and
"Lee K. Seitz" wrote:
>
> Question: Are there really that many software collectors on eBay or
> is it mainly people hit with a wave of nostalgia that decide they want
> to play an old game again?
A mixture of both. People bidding on unopened items are collectors; most
others are probably not.
> I've just seen the Game Over 2 box, it's definitely a Royo. But it was
> stated that it was originally to be known as Phantis... so this game had
3
> names?
>Sorry, my goof on this one... it was called Phantis originally. Lorna was
a
>game by Topo based on a comic book. Really great graphic
I have an original Softporn disk (On-Line Systems) that doesn't work because
(1) the imbecile shipper shipped it in a padded envelope which (2) the
imbecile mail carrier jammed into my tiny apartment mailbox, bending it.
Fortunately I only paid $3 for it, but still.
Had one doofus from England MA
> Question: Are there really that many software collectors on eBay or
> is it mainly people hit with a wave of nostalgia that decide they want
> to play an old game again?
I would guess they're collectors, as anyone who simply wants to play a game
can download it for free (unless they want the o
> I've just seen the Game Over 2 box, it's definitely a Royo. But it was
> stated that it was originally to be known as Phantis... so this game had 3
> names?
Sorry, my goof on this one... it was called Phantis originally. Lorna was a
game by Topo based on a comic book. Really great graphics (g
> Do you know if it has the same box drawing? I'm willing to collect all
> "Luis Royo" boxes.
>No, the original drawing for Lorna was done by Alfonso Aspiri (he did
covers
>for the early Dinamic games, such as Camelot Warriors, Westbank and Abu
>Simbel Profanation. He also did titles for Topo
> Do you know if it has the same box drawing? I'm willing to collect all
> "Luis Royo" boxes.
No, the original drawing for Lorna was done by Alfonso Aspiri (he did covers
for the early Dinamic games, such as Camelot Warriors, Westbank and Abu
Simbel Profanation. He also did titles for Topo such
Hi,
I just received a 2nd list in continuation of the other one I posted on the
list about 1 week ago. The number on the left represents the number of
copies left for sale.
11942 gold Jewel $1.00
1Across the Rhine$1.00
2Caesar Sierra Budget Version $1.00
1Casino Master
About packaging experiences... once I received on a padded envelope this
unopened game I was really looking forward to add to my collection.
Everything went smoothly except for the fact that probably some moron from
the Portuguese post office let it drop on water and the envelope was
soaked, and
>Well, as far as I know, he only did covers for Dinamic games.
I had never thought of that, you're most probably right.
>Other games he did covers for include:
>AMC
>Capitan Trueno (one of my all time favorite Spanish games)
>Game Over 2 (which was just the English release of Lorna)
Do you kn
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