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Article #697710Re: Mid-month Ramble - April 2017
From: Mike S.
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 14:12
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 14:12
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On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 09:59:43 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote: >That's not actually true. >Not all games were available on every platform; e.g. the four graphics >(V6) games were only available for Macintosh, Amiga, Apple II (with >128k RAM) and IBM. These were probably the seven best-supported >platforms: I guess I am remembering this incorrectly! I swear though I remember reading this somewhere back in the day. Oh well. My apologies! I googled this myself and the only thing I learned is that Infocom was one of the few companies that supported the C 128 in its native mode. Maybe this is what I am remembering. As for my Infocom goodies, that glowing rock is the only thing I still have.. despite the fact that I owned many many Infocom titles.
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