On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Dan Chisarick wrote:
[snip]
> > Speaking of Privateer, is there a CD version that comes in a
> > standard-sized box? 'cause if there is, I haven't seen one, and would
> > like it. Even the budget box, which is all I've ever seen or heard of, is
> > worth $20 or so these days.
>
> Huh. I vaguely recall seeing one on the shelf of the local Babbages.
> It may be Privateer I or "Privateer Gold" or something, but I'll grab it for
> you if you're interested. As long as its "Privateer I" in some form of
> non-jewelcase, you're happy, yes?
Chances are, that's Privateer II, not the original Privateer. I
specifically am wondering if a standard-box CD version of the original
Privateer (packaged with nothing else) exists. The budget-box version
isn't too hard to find (that's what's usually called "Privateer Gold"),
and the standard-box floppy version isn't tough to find either.
Incidentally, how many of you guys played the text adventure game that
came with the original Privateer? Another one came with the Righteous
Fire expansion pack. The text games themselves are small and nothing
special; what's amazing is how they were implemented. (It blew me away,
anyway.) These text games also weren't documented anywhere; one of the
puzzles was finding them and getting them to run.
I think Chris probably wants copies of these now, heh.
> On a totally unrelated note, a "Mockingboard Rev D" fell into my lap
> last week. After 18 years, I'll finally know what the music to "Ultima III"
> sounds like. Did the C64 version (or any other version) have the music?
MIDI conversions of the Ultima III music have been out on the Web for a
long time. I don't know if the NES version has different music (it almost
certainly does), but that's also out there too.
-- Stephen
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