John Higginbotham wrote: That 128x48 monochrome grid let stuff move like a bat out of Chicago. Amazing how smoothly low-res graphics animates when you're distracted and trying not to get killed. Spacewar was my favorite game ever (though Missile Command came close a year or two later). My running partner and me used to hog that machine at the Saint James Infirmary in Sunnyvale for hours back in '78-'79, sending somebody over to grab us a fresh pitcher every once in a while. And yes, I love the old text adventures. Brains, not reflexes. These days, the closest you can get is when Altavista changes its search engine syntax _again_ and you've got to find out how to track down some actual information. So of _course_ my Linux box has the interpreters for Infocom and Scott Adams adventures at full power. Plus Rogue, Nethack, old Hack, Omega, and a gagload of other old "travel to strange lands, meet strange creatures, and kill or be killed by them". I'll admit I enjoy the first level of Doom (the only level I've been on -- no reflexes, I dies easy), especially since the novels came out co-written by my old friend Brad Lineaweaver. Activision was selling the Infocom library within the last year -- they might still be doing so. A CD with all of the old clues (like the postcards from "Planetfall" and the comic book from "Leather Goddesses of Phobos") as graphics, except for the scratch'n'sniff bits. I'll admit that the Big-5 arcade stuff was never ported by the boys in Van Nuys -- but they do run well through the emulators on WinDoze and Unix systems. And unless the author (or corporate copyright holder) actually releases the product, there's nothing we can ethically do to hurry the process. I'm that weird sort of libertarian who considers intellectual property rights to be even more sacred than geographic property rights. Accept what is freely given -- but don't get pushy. You are always free to write your own version. And then sell it. -- Ward Griffiths Two thousand yeare since Bethlehem and still we hear the lie, that after years of hopes and fears the best part's when we die.