Omega-TI Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 Okay, some of you guys don't get out of this section often, so I have to let you know about this post by a guy in another section of Atari Age. << CLICK HERE >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 BBS The Documentary for those of you that need to know what you are clicking on before clicking on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinkeey Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 The whole SEA vs PKWare section was interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 The whole SEA vs PKWare section was interesting. Yeah there was many wonderful battles like that back in the day, like the famous Compuserve and GIF format one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 I have the BBS documentary on DVD. It's very very good if you were around at that time. I didn't know the history of Fidonet and all that stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted April 16, 2014 Author Share Posted April 16, 2014 Speaking of Fidonet, was there ever an archive made of all the old "TI-ECHO" messages? If so, does anyone know where it's located? There has to be a MASSIVE amount of useful information available there, from the TI's glory days, when everything was new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew180 Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Great documentary. I funded it before it was done, so I'm in the credits somewhere with some sort of message I got to have included. There is another very good documentary called "GET LAMP", by the same author, that covers the adventure game industry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 How can the documentary be on YouTube and still be on sale? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMole Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 How can the documentary be on YouTube and still be on sale? My guess would be because the Youtube version is shitty low quality and they're hoping that people will want to pay for a higher resolution version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 My guess would be because the Youtube version is shitty low quality and they're hoping that people will want to pay for a higher resolution version? Not so sure about that. You don't really need high resolution for such a documentary consisting mostly of people interviews. Besides, I thought the You Tube videos were quite watchable. Furthermore, Get Lamp is only available for purchase... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Hatter Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 (edited) Jason Scott released The BBS Documentary into the public domain, which is why it is available on Youtube. He still sells copies of the BBS Documentary on his site, which is where I got mine a few years ago. There are some bonus items which are not available on YouTube, and it comes in a nice case, but for the most part I'm sure the public domain version is about the same. Main reason I purchased mine vs. streaming it online was because I thought it was an excellent effort and I wanted to support that. Edited April 16, 2014 by Mad Hatter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Hatter Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Get Lamp: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Jason Scott released The BBS Documentary into the public domain, which is why it is available on Youtube. He still sells copies of the BBS Documentary on his site, which is where I got mine a few years ago. There are some bonus items which are not available on YouTube, and it comes in a nice case, but for the most part I'm sure the public domain version is about the same. Main reason I purchased mine vs. streaming it online was because I thought it was an excellent effort and I wanted to support that. I bought the BBS Documentary when it first came out, having waited on it for some time. It did not disappoint me. In fact, I found it even more interesting than I was expecting. Very well done, and definitely worth taking the time to view in whole. As for Get Lamp, as soon as he announced it, I got very excited. Then it got delayed so many times, that it completely fell off my radar--until yesterday, when I stumbled upon this thread and immediately went to the site to purchase a copy. I'm excitedly waiting for it now. As a kid of the 1980s, BBS's and text adventures were my thing. dZ. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyBritish Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 This guy is also doing a documentary in the 6502 and also tape format Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 How many of the original Infocom titles were ported to the TI? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 A lot of TI-ECHO was copied automatically to comp.sys.ti, which Google has preserved here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.sys.ti I checked a few archives brought up by Google, but didn't locate TI-ECHO in any of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew180 Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 How many of the original Infocom titles were ported to the TI? Not many, if any. I rhyme all the time. But I really don't know. I do know that I never played any Infocom until after my main TI years, which leads me to believe they were not available (believing I would have found, bought, and played them on my TI had they been available). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Not many, if any. Infocom titles like Zork 1-3, Planetfall, Stationfall, Deadline, Hitchhiker's Guide, Hollywood Hijinx, Infidel, Leather Goddesses, Lurking Horror, all of which I have on my Geneve hard disk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Also Enchanter, which was the only one I had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Were all of these official Infocom releases with box and paraphernalia or were they just software conversions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew180 Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Infocom titles like Zork 1-3, Planetfall, Stationfall, Deadline, Hitchhiker's Guide, Hollywood Hijinx, Infidel, Leather Goddesses, Lurking Horror, all of which I have on my Geneve hard disk? Seriously?? Wow. I must have been too busy playing ToD or tearing my eyes out learning assembly via the E/A manual. These titles would run on the 99/4A (with PEB, 32K, FDD I assume)? Any idea what year they started releasing them for the 99/4A? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 (edited) http://atariage.com/forums/topic/94628-pc-to-ti994a-interface/page-4?do=findComment&comment=1986803 Edited April 17, 2014 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Were all of these official Infocom releases with box and paraphernalia or were they just software conversions? Like those? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 (edited) To be honest, I only have those three as real packages; I don't remember how I got the other ones. I played the Zork games with the standard 40-column interpreter, but later I used the 80-column interpreter on the Geneve (written for the V9938) which was pretty much fun. Edited April 17, 2014 by mizapf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Yep, all official, boxes and accessories and all, like Mizapf showed! Unfortunately the data files were not the same on the TI version as all the others, so you couldn't just copy the disk into the interpreters that came later, or so I understood. But they worked fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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