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From: jtilton@vt.edu (Jay Tilton)
Subject: Re: LGOP, Arthur, Journey, Shogun
Date: 01 Apr 1996 02:23:12 +0000
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alexlehm@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Alexander Lehmann) writes:

>After having recently found a pointer to a c64 warez site in Norway, getting
>LGOP isn't really be a problem. It can be converted to the normal ZIP format
>with a tool available on ftp.gmd.de. The only drawback is that the program
>reports the file a checksum error, I think some overcautious warez d00d has
>replaced the serial number in the file by 000001, so checking the file
>integrity is not possible.

The serial number doesn't get run through the checksum routine.  It
can be replaced with anything you can imagine and won't affect whether
it passes $ver.  It's likely the image you got is banged up enough
that you'll run into a serious problem sometime during play.  I'd be 
suspicious of just about any C64 disk image.  No telling how many
layers of copying it's been through, often with big mistakes that 
only accumulate with each copy.  Maybe that's where a lot of
bogus bug reports come from.  <shrug>

>even though
>it is a bit annoying, the clap/hop/kweepa sequence in the maze was really
>fun.

It was fun the first time.  No denying that figuring out just what
the heck was going on was a real treat.  After that it became
annoying.  Enough so that I wrote a cheezy program that I could
input the starting turn number, and it would pump out a list of which
turns to clap/hop/kweepa.  Save place/run program/print list/restore 
game/navigate maze with no worries.  Still got it somewhere, done
up in PCjr BASIC!  I thought it was a damn clever bit of coding at
the time.  :)

Speaking of LGOP's lamentable unavailability, does anybody have a
clue why this is?  Is it due to some obscure clause in the licensing
of LGOP2 that says Activision can't produce it any more?  
Whatever the reason, sumpthin needs to be done about it.  Making
good folks resort to downloading twitchy copies of this classic
from shady FTP sites is a tragedy.  Can we petition Activision to
either produce more or release it to the public domain?
--
Jay Tilton  |  jtilton@vt.edu  | Virginia Tech
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