UI (Was: OT: Microsoft crazy academic deal

Jules Richardson wrote: We have ways of determining if the shrinkwrap is original or not. Most re-shrinks have tell-tale signs that it was done with a typical commercial shrinkwrap machine (and a few of us, myself included, have had the pleasure of working for a software place and have a lot of experience reshrinking stuff so we know what to look for). Usually, if there is a nearly perfect circular hole in the wrap, that is *not* a reshrink. If there are crusty and/or burnt edges, that *is* a reshrink. Stuff like that. I run a software collector's mailing list over at http://list.oldskool.org/listinfo/swcollect if you're curious to join and lurk/read the archives. We also defined a grading scale for our hobby, which you can read about at http://www.mobygames.com/info/MobyScale so we're as serious as reasonably possible about collecting software as a hobby :-) BTW, I'm with you -- I try to collect two shrinked copies of things; one that I can open/play/archive and the other to keep sealed as a collectible (although software does not need to be *sealed* to be a true collectible, like the original Akalabeth). -- Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/