Hugh Falk wrote:
>
> About Murder on the Zinderneuf...I have the DOS version, and I'm in the
> Northern Hemisphere! :-) I had no idea it was valuable at all. I don't
That's because the DOS version isn't DOS -- it's a booter. You must
have a cracked copy.
Unless, of course, my sources are wrong. I will find out and report
back. (Shouts from the swcollect community: "No! Don't do it! Don't
crack the wrap!") ;-)
> remember where/when I got mine, but the person would have been lucky to get
> $5 for it. I don't see how the DOS version would have been especially rare.
PC games are generally pretty rare because people didn't really use the
PC to play games until about 1985, when the industry started to move and
Apple/C64/Atari stayed in the same place.
> EA was notorious for mass producing games. The DOS version didn't come out
> until 1984 -- the original (Atari 800 version, 1983) has the distinction of
> being the first game to sign a contract with EA (it is also historically
> significant, of course, because it was written by Free Fall Associates --
> also of Archon fame -- Jim Freeman's (founder of Epyx) company). So in my
> opinion, the Atari 800 version is far move "valuable" from a historic
> standpoint. I didn't know the DOS version was especially rare, but I'll
> keep an eye out from now on! There is another EA Flat for DOS only called
> Radio Baseball. I haven't seen many of these around, so maybe the DOS
> versions of EA games are more rare...maybe they didn't sell well.
Exactly. They didn't sell well. And the PC versions may or may not
have significant improvments (or detriments) in gameplay and features.
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