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  1. I owned Asgard Software. I think they are available in various places on the Internet. To answer your question - I’ve never converted them into any sort of format that can be shared online. I do have them on floppy disk though
  2. I wrote my Checkers game and several other programs in TI Fortran
  3. This was self-published, and didn't have an ISBN. That was in the days before books commonly had UPC codes too.
  4. I found this while cleaning up a bookshelf, wedged between two National Geographics
  5. Please put me on the list to buy one of these.
  6. Its documentation for the Marinchip 990 - an S100 bus based 9900 minicomputer.
  7. The last of the stuff has been mailed out - minus a set of the Marinchip documentation. Anyone want that who is willing to add it to the archive?
  8. This was a complicated thing - at the time I found that several people in the community had figured out how to hijack the interpreter that Infocom had made for the 99/4A to play games that they had never gotten around to offering. Since the games were essentially a database and the interpreter, it was simply a matter of converting the files. I thought it was tragic (as a huge fan of their games) that they didn't release them, so I contacted Infocom, which at the time had been bought out by Activision, to see if they would give me permission after I spoke with Barry Boone and a few other people in the community. Little did I know but I had walked into a shit-storm.. Infocom was in the process of being shutdown, and there was no one in authority. Eventually, I found someone in Activision who made me an intriguing offer - if I bought their deadstock they said that they didn't care if I re-packaged it for the 4A. It just so happened they had a ton of the stuff sitting around, much of it on 5-1/4" disks.. so I did just that... I bought all I could get my hands on, reformatted the disks and put TI versions on the same disks. I also paid a royalty to the programmers that put it together. It was never a huge money-maker... it was a labor of love... but it just felt good to get it out there. Things got a little muddy when I went back to get more of Leather Goddesses of Phoebes.. by far my best seller (who knew computer guys liked adventure porn?). At this point Infocom was totally wound up, and I couldn't find anyone who could tell me anything. It just so happened, though, I had a back-door contact into the company. We essentially worked out a reproduction agreement - I paid them a royalty on the copies that I made from making my own versions of their documentation. Of course, they were famous for their complicated documentation, and there was no way I could cost-effectively replicate it. But, I did my best and people liked it anyway. I still have 5-6 copies of LGOP sitting in my storage boxes, but no one to send a check to if I sold them... so I don't feel right about parting with them. I also have a fairly complete set of the originals in my personal collection - which I don't plan to sell or give away.
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