I don't remember LSL, but mama suggests trying to see if anyone remembers or has "Castle of Doctor Brain," or any of its sequels... I don't remember those either, but she assures me they're late '70s - early '80s, and worked on both Atari and TRS-80s...

Can you tell me/us what they're like? Mama swears by them, but I don't recall ever having seen them. And, by "PC," does that mean current or DOS?

Can you tell me/us what they're like? Mama swears by them, but I don't recall ever having seen them. And, by "PC," does that mean current or

Cheers! Ed San Antonio, Tx, USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Pemberton" <philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com> To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 04:25 PM Subject: Re: Sierra Adventure Games > I've got the PC VGA versions of "Turbo Science", "Castle of Doctor

> and "Island of Doctor Brain". Disks are in a box somewhere, same for the > manuals. > > Later. > -- > Phil.

I went to the page. There's all kinds of info there, but no like provided access to a copy, freebie or purchase -- including eBay and Amazon.com... Have these games entered the "rare" collection? Cheers... Ed San Antonio, Tx, USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tomer Gabel" <tomerg(a)bigmail.co.il> To: <cctech(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 01:04 PM Subject: Re: Sierra Adventure Games > The Castle, Island or Lost Mind of Dr. Brain games came out for the IBM

> (VGA) in the very early '90s ('91, '92 and '95 respectively). Unless

> were other games these were based on, there are no TRS-80 versions.

> was definitely an Amiga version of "Castle" and I vaguely recall an

> version for "Island"; there may also have been an Atari ST version of > "Castle." > > By the way, information of this nature can be found in > http://www.mobygames.com -- a site which I heartily recommend. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ed Tillman" <ETILLMAN(a)satx.rr.com> > To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 12:40 AM > Subject: Re: Sierra Adventure Games > > > > Can you tell me/us what they're like? Mama swears by them, but I

the > > > manuals. > > > > > > Later. > > > -- > > > Phil.

-----Original Message----- From: cctech-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-admin@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Bryan Pope Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 3:38 PM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Sierra Adventure Games And thusly Tomer Gabel spake: repository of information been with it since I noticed it has DOS games from 1981... Why do you have Amiga games but no Commodore games? Cheers, Bryan

I don't remember LSL, but mama suggests trying to see if anyone remembers or has "Castle of Doctor Brain," or any of its sequels... I don't remember those either, but she assures me they're late '70s - early '80s, and worked on both Atari and TRS-80s... Any thoughts? Ed San Antonio, Tx, USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "chris" &lt;cb(a)mythtech.net&gt; To: "Classic Computer" &lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:18 AM Subject: RE: Sierra Adventure Games > >> ... Leisure Suit Larry 1, too. > > > >Hey! I still have LSL1 1.0 - 5.25" original disks, not a > >copy (fished it out of a pile of debris left by a > >departing college student a number of years ago) > > > >It's... um... a *classic*! > > Ah, but do you have "SoftPorn" the game that LSL-1 was a > rip off of? I played that on my Apple II eons ago (I just > saw it on one of the game archive links that passed thru > this list recently in anyone wanted to DL it) > > -chris > <http://www.mythtech.net>

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Lawrence Walker wrote: > bigger German demo programmer whose name escapes me . Some of their > sound-light programs are even now astounding. This was on-the-edge shit > and for the most part seems to be dying (what do you do when not coding > boring stuff) in favor of repeating some hi-paying sort of state > propaganda shit based on GI-Joe.

They still have a lot of "Demo Parties" in Europe where folks get together and program pointless "demo" programs to show off their skills and what they can do with old machines. This is a phenomenon that unfortunately did not make its way over to the US :(

Regardless the phenomenon was indeed not widespread in the US; the major demo groups were Hornet (Jim Leonard a.k.a Trixter of Hornet later went on to form www.oldskool.org, www.mobygames.com and www.mindcandydvd.com) and Reinnaisance (sp? some members went on to program or do music for games).

How can anyone who is not a DEC-freak fail to remember "Leasure-Suit Larry". For obvious self- derogatory reasons this was one of my favorite games. I have V 1 for MSDOS and 1-3 for Atari ST. I don't especially like adventure games but it was indeed "special" if only for it's sense of self-depreciating humor. That's something that seems to be lost for this generation of hackers(?) who seem to think substituting "z" for "s" is some sort of statement. I have a progam somewhere for 8 bit Ataris that strung together a bunch of stills of a woman performing felatio, which I found more humorous than erotic. Also some 8- bit Demos by Michel Jarre and another even bigger German demo programmer whose name escapes me . Some of their sound-light programs are even now astounding. This was on-the-edge shit and for the most part seems to be dying (what do you do when not coding boring stuff) in favor of repeating some hi-paying sort of state propaganda shit based on GI-Joe. "Up the Empire". Blecch ! Oh well us old farts are gonna die soon and the Bill Gate's will be free to have their way. Memories are short. Lawrence On 29 Jan 2003, , Ed Tillman wrote: lgwalker@ mts.net

LSL wasn't a "SoftPorn ripoff" as such -- it was definitely inspired by the game, and in fact, the Leisure Suit Larry Collection Series (boxed set of the first 6 games in all versions) INCLUDES the PC version of SoftPorn. Al Lowe (the person behind the LSL series, originally a school teacher - would you believe that!) has fully acknowledged that LSL was inspired by SoftPorn.