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Re: Out of this World Original US (DOS) Release?

Posted on 2016-02-10, 18:57

It's really strange. DIET actually packs executables with a lowercase "diet" in that very same location, but I wasn't able to find any version to actually unpack it. I also tried CyberWare Universal Unpacker without any luck. I finally located an application called "The Executable's Unpacker" which …

Re: Out of this World Original US (DOS) Release?

Posted on 2016-02-10, 02:26

Got my hand on the FLT release and this is strange. Most of the files are similiar, including timestamps. The only differences are that the install.bat was designed to support up to 5 installation disks and the WORLD.EXE was compressed using PKLITE and nearly triples in size uncompressed. edit: It …

Out of this World Original US (DOS) Release?

Posted on 2016-02-09, 15:52

Out of this World doesn't have much chatter in google groups for me to use as a reference so I've been hitting a few walls. The earliest physical copy of this game I've been able to find has a 5/4/1992 timestamped world.exe on disk 1, but looking up scene releases on defacto2 shows me that it was …

Elder Scrolls Arena - Max Sounds Issue

Posted on 2016-01-01, 05:36

I'm having an issue where only one sound effect will play at a time. An ambient sound drowns out all other sounds, combat drowns out footsteps, etc. I've installed the game from the original media, configured the sound card and my detail slider is maxed out. Anyone know what might be causing this? …

Re: Ultima II (Apple II) Question

Posted on 2015-07-22, 17:01

It is a duplicate of the Program and Player Master Disk. Because the Player Disk is irretrievably overwritten when you start a new game, you would copy over the data from the notchless disk to the notched disk. The Program sided are copy-protected, the Player sides are not. This is the only way to …

Ultima II (Apple II) Question

Posted on 2015-07-21, 19:40

Spent almost $450 on a copy of Ultima II thinking it was for the PC, but upon receiving it turned out to be for the Apple II. I took a further look into the contents and it matches up with every version previously sold (including the errata note saying it's one of the first releases) These generally …

Re: Pirates! Can someone identify this version?

Posted on 2015-05-26, 19:17

Wow, I'm blind. Thank you! Also, generally, factory written disks are still quite alive as long as they haven't been written over or stored improperly. Two of the biggest killers of disks I've run into so far are warped magnetic diskettes and parts of the disk that were overwritten with a home …

Pirates! Can someone identify this version?

Posted on 2015-05-26, 16:56

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sid-Meiers-Pirates-Original-Vintage-PC-Game-35-Disks-COMPLETE-RARE-1987-/111679684090 I'm looking for 432.01 and I don't know if that version came on 3.5'' or even any boxes outside of the cardboard folder style box.I can't locate this disk design or box coverart on MobyGames …

Re: Anyone own a copy of Lemmings (First revision)?

Posted on 2015-05-05, 22:49

vicvan on betaarchive came through with a disk image of the 05/11/91 release which confirms it was a real release and maybe possibly provided an image of the disk. My only concern is the box art on mobygames he linked to is a UK release, but here you can see a post written by a student from New York …

Re: Anyone own a copy of Lemmings (First revision)?

Posted on 2015-05-05, 05:07

There's also historical posts in google groups where people owned the full version much earlier than the July timestamps on these copies I own. The really sad thing is that while the THG release is cracked, I think you just pointed out the third revision to me. It's possible it was just a leaked …

Re: Anyone own a copy of Lemmings (First revision)?

Posted on 2015-04-27, 15:20

I would think the hour thing would be an OS assuming DST and correcting it? Yeah, that was my assumption. I can pretty much confirm this (99%) as I've requested timestamps from eBay sellers that were an hour behind and when the disk arrived the timestamps were back to normal. I remember seeing disk …

Re: Anyone own a copy of Lemmings (First revision)?

Posted on 2015-04-23, 21:44

Mine all match except for VGALEMMI.EXE, CGALEMMI.EXE, TGALEMMI.EXE which have a datestamp of 7/19/1991 11:19 AM and TANDYSND.DAT which has a datestamp of 7/30/1991 5:33 PM. Also, all my hours are one before yours, so you might understand this as 7/19/1991 12:19 PM and 7/30/1991 6:33 PM *shrug* …

Re: Does the PCjr 1984 King's Quest booter contain copy protection?

Posted on 2015-04-23, 20:33

in DOS
Which booter do you mean, the IBM release (which only runs on a PCjr), or the "PCjr disk" of the Sierra On-Line release (which runs on Tandy 1000 and PCjr)? The IBM version's copy protection is that the program image is stored in 1024-byte sized sectors (normal is 512). The "PCjr disk" of the …

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