1 Dec
2000
1 Dec
'00
2:25 p.m.
I just found out that classic Cinemaware titles such as "The Three Stooges"
and "Rocket Ranger" have been put up on their web page for download!
http://www.cinemaware.com/vault.asp?vault=games
Apparently supported platforms included:
Amiga, AtariST, C64, NES and PC
Hmmmm..... Looks like I've definitly got to get my Amiga 3000 back up and
running! Something tells me I'll be working on that this weekend!
Apparently after having been gone since '91 they reformed in September of
this year.
Don't know if they include instructions in the downloads, but one would hope
so.
I remember playing "The Three Stooges" in the late 80's on my Kaypro 2000
:^) and always wanted to try "Rocket Ranger".
Zane
1 Dec
1 Dec
2:57 p.m.
I just found out that classic Cinemaware titles such
as "The Three Stooges"
and "Rocket Ranger" have been put up on their web page for download!
Love "The Three Stooges," and how about that PG-13-rated love scene in
"Defender of the Crown"? >:-)
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3:43 p.m.
Yes...Cinemaware
I remember playing "Rocket Ranger" on my Amigas it was a great game...I
played it many many times and never finished it...IIRC there was no save
game for this and it was an adventure with arcade sequences...took about
1 or 2 hours to go through all the game...
You had to have a "decoder wheel" so you could load the proper quantity
of "rocket fuel" in your booster rockets to move from country to
country...also a way of battling software piracy...if you did not have
the wheel, you just could not play the game cause you could not go no
where...
Unitl someone took 20 minutes to make a spreadsheet file of the wheel
data and pass it along with the game disks...
I suppose they are including this decoder wheel "map" in the files..
I also remember "It Came From The Desert" from these guys...same type of
game...great graphics with a "movie" type scenario...
Claude
healyzh(a)aracnet.com wrote:
I just found out that classic Cinemaware titles such as "The Three Stooges"
and "Rocket Ranger" have been put up on their web page for download!
http://www.cinemaware.com/vault.asp?vault=games
Apparently supported platforms included:
Amiga, AtariST, C64, NES and PC
Hmmmm..... Looks like I've definitly got to get my Amiga 3000 back up and
running! Something tells me I'll be working on that this weekend!
Apparently after having been gone since '91 they reformed in September of
this year.
Don't know if they include instructions in the downloads, but one would hope
so.
I remember playing "The Three Stooges" in the late 80's on my Kaypro 2000
:^) and always wanted to try "Rocket Ranger".
Zane
4 Dec
4 Dec
10:13 a.m.
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 healyzh(a)aracnet.com wrote:
I just found out that classic Cinemaware titles such
as "The Three Stooges"
and "Rocket Ranger" have been put up on their web page for download!
http://www.cinemaware.com/vault.asp?vault=games
I have to say I *really* appreciate you posting this... Cinemaware games
were definitely a cut above, whether on Amiga or C64 (the two that I've
played them on) I hope that others will post such things as they see
them, as I get a feeling that more and more old software will be released
in a free form (free of legal entangles, anyways... sure you can "pirate",
but it's nice to see old software released for free; it's the right thing
to do if there's no paying market anymore)
Hmmmm..... Looks like I've definitly got to get
my Amiga 3000 back up and
running! Something tells me I'll be working on that this weekend!
me too... looks like the "roms" (NES audience I suppose) aren't available
yet for any platform... I better finish up my projects before those get
released. No work will be done for at least a week following that. :)
- Dan
Dan Linder / dlinder @ uiuc.edu
Graduate Student, College of Engineering, Dept. of Computer Science
- Dept. of Computer Science Teaching Assistant
- DoRES Computer Accessibility Researcher
- All-Around Tech Mercenary for Hire
10:33 a.m.
I have to say I *really* appreciate you posting
this... Cinemaware games
were definitely a cut above, whether on Amiga or C64 (the two that I've
played them on) I hope that others will post such things as they see
them, as I get a feeling that more and more old software will be released
No problem, I figured others besides me would be interested in it. Got to
agree on the bit about hoping others will post simular info.... Hmmm, maybe
an idea for a web page there (actually wouldn't surprise me if there already
is a web page up for this).
in a free form (free of legal entangles, anyways...
sure you can "pirate",
but it's nice to see old software released for free; it's the right thing
to do if there's no paying market anymore)
ISTR, seeing a couple other cases of this, and in some cases they even
release the source code.
Hmmmm.....
Looks like I've definitly got to get my Amiga 3000 back up and
running! Something tells me I'll be working on that this weekend!
me too... looks like the "roms" (NES audience I suppose) aren't available
yet for any platform... I better finish up my projects before those get
released. No work will be done for at least a week following that. :) 
12:12 p.m.
Zane wrote:
The wierd thing on the ROMs is that IIRC, they listed
the Amiga and Atari
versions as ROMs?!?!
The UAE dUdeZ would be confused by a Disk Image. Rom is easier to spell.
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12:17 p.m.
New subject: weir smm 200 power supply
Hi all,
anybody out here has a manual for it ?
(made in U.K.)
thanks,
emanuel
12:13 p.m.
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5 Dec
5 Dec
5:01 a.m.
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 healyzh(a)aracnet.com wrote:
The wierd thing on the ROMs is that IIRC, they listed
the Amiga and Atari
versions as ROMs?!?!
I think in "Youngster Lingo" (tm) "ROMs" = "Games" due to
the popularity
of NES, etc, emulators, people go looking for "ROMs" instead of Games -
it's sort of like "warez". :)
- Dan
Dan Linder / dlinder @ uiuc.edu
Graduate Student, College of Engineering, Dept. of Computer Science
- Dept. of Computer Science Teaching Assistant
- DoRES Computer Accessibility Researcher
- All-Around Tech Mercenary for Hire
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