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"undert0w" <d0wn_underDELETEt0w@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message 
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> "Mary" <non@invalid.ddd> wrote in message 
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>> "undert0w" <d0wn_underDELETEt0w@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message 
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>>> "Mary" <non@invalid.ddd> wrote in message 
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>>>> "undert0w" <d0wn_underDELETEt0w@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message 
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>>>>> Hi there!
>>>>>
>>>>> Seeing that justadventure and quandary don't seem to exist anymore, 
>>>>> can anyone recommend their favorite sherlock holmes games?
>>>>>
>>>>> Also if anyone knows of any websites that review adventure games only, 
>>>>> please let me know.
>>>>
>>>> I just checked and www.justadventure.com is still there.  They have a 
>>>> lot of adventure game reviews and maybe some action games. They seem to 
>>>> have made a few changes on their site, but its still there. I have a 
>>>> few favourite Sherlock Holmes games, some being quite old. My favourite 
>>>> is probably SH and The Rose Tattoo and Serrated Scalpel made in mid 
>>>> 1990's. They would be hard to find now. In the newer SH games I like SH 
>>>> Nemesis best. Silver Earring wasn't bad. The Awakened was OK. Haven't 
>>>> played SH vs Jack the Ripper. Check justadventure above for reviews of 
>>>> some SH games. Also, check http://www.adventuregamers.com/ for 
>>>> adventure game reviews.
>>>>
>>>> Mary
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>>> Thanks Cronos and Mary,  I will try SH vs Jack the Ripper and I will 
>>> also try to find SH & the Rose Tattoo.  I just tried JA again and I 
>>> still can't access the site in firefox or explorer.  I miss that site... 
>>> Maybe you are accessing a cached version or perhaps it can only be 
>>> accessed in the U.S.?
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>> I'm in Canada same as Cronos, and I just tried JA and no problem getting 
>> it. I'm not sure why you are having a problem connecting to it. Do you 
>> run a pop-up blocker that could be preventing you from accessing JA? or 
>> could you by mistake have blocked JA in your blocked list?  What country 
>> are you in? If you try to get Rose Tattoo and Serrated scalpel, you would 
>> probably have to try Ebay. I don't know how much they would be.  They are 
>> both on CD though started out on floppies, but Serrated Scalpel is older 
>> than Rose Tattoo, and SS was mainly text and not speech. Rose Tattoo was 
>> all speech on the CD.
>>
>> Mary
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> I'm in Australia and firefox and ie say 'server not found'.  However I 
> just used a proxy server and it loads just fine!  I just hope this doesn't 
> have anything to do with the web filter our government has placed on our 
> entire country without our permission...
>
> Ezra

I hope not. These meddling governments are all the same. They do what they 
want :p . But good you got JA with a proxy server.

Mary