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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Masterpieces of Infocom
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BFollow924 (bfollow924@aol.com) wrote:

>      I just read about this new package. I have both LTOI CD's, but am
> considering ordering this compilation just for the electronic versions of
> the manuals, docs, maps, etc. How do these look. Also, tell me it isn't
> true. Surely Activision didn't put out another incomplete collection. The
> original LTOI cd's were missing LGOP. I see that they've added this to the
> collection, but I see no mention of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or
> Shogun. Any information on why these were left out?

They've said exactly why they were left out: the rights had reverted to 
the authors. (May have been a ten-year limit or something.) Activision 
didn't have permission to put them on.

--Z

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