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From: russotto@wanda.phl.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto)
Subject: Re: LGOP, Arthur, Journey, Shogun
Date: 05 Apr 1996 15:05:11 +0000
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.960404212130.84C-100000@the-eye.res.wpi.edu>,
George Caswell  <timbuktu@the-eye.res.wpi.edu> wrote:

}   Of course, looking through those copies with the ztools, pretty 
}scary--  a lot of those 8 corrupt game files were off by hex values in the 
}thousands...

And are incredibly corrupt-- whole sectors blown away to 0xFF or 0x00.
There's another version of infocom.zip out there, and it has most of
the same corrupt games, plus a few more which aren't corrupt, plus one
which isn't even an Infocom game.  Also there are a few "loose"
infocom games at the C64 sites, most of them corrupt as well.  C64
pirates seem to have been a sloppy lot.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto      russotto@pond.com     russotto@his.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue." 
