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Article #350904Re: Broken Sword 5 1/2 off on steam today 4/5
From: mick
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 22:06
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 22:06
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"mick" <coughcough@privacy.com> wrote in message >news:_ig1v.160993$ew1.54044@fx19.am4... > >A few minutes?? Is that all? That's amazing. but as I said my download took a >long time because I only have "Lite" high speed. regular high speed is too >expensive at my provider.. Is VM cable regular high speed, or ultra high speed? Yes they have different speeds. When the new upgrades are finished their packages will be 50Mb, 100Mb and 152Mb. >I am not in the US. I'm in Canada - a much better country :>) Of course:-) > You might remember in the old days here I used to complain about some > adventure games on Amazon.com I think it was being available in the U.S. for > sale which I couldn't find in Canada but Amazon.com would not ship to Canada. > You had the same problem in the UK at the time. Now we can download them as > long as you watch your "caps" :) I actually ordered one of the Tex Murphy games from Canada. It was dirt cheap but turned out I had to pay the postage at the door (or something like that) so it ended up not being quite the bargain I thought:-) >I am getting into the game in BS5. I like it ok. it reminds me of the earlier >BS games. Yes they went back to the original format. All that box shifting in 4 (was it?) got a bit tedious. Although when I replayed it a few years back it wasnt as bad as I remembered it. mick
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!border1.nntp.ams3.giganews.com!backlog3.nntp.ams3.giganews.com!backlog3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.org!cyclone03.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!voer-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.fr7!fx10.am4.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "mick" <coughcough@privacy.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure References: <lhp256$6cq$1@dont-email.me> <lhpesr$dh7$1@speranza.aioe.org> <i9U0v.506117$ey1.44072@fx34.am4> <li2cvd$keg$1@dont-email.me> <_ig1v.160993$ew1.54044@fx19.am4> <li94eq$pas$1@speranza.aioe.org> In-Reply-To: <li94eq$pas$1@speranza.aioe.org> Subject: Re: Broken Sword 5 1/2 off on steam today 4/5 Lines: 38 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 16.4.3508.205 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V16.4.3508.205 Message-ID: <1OZ1v.115748$1M1.1602@fx10.am4> NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.3.29.255 X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com X-Trace: 1397254397 82.3.29.255 (Fri, 11 Apr 2014 22:13:17 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 22:13:17 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 23:06:31 +0100 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3843877035 X-Received-Bytes: 2541 Bytes: 2917 X-Original-Lines: 2 X-Original-Bytes: 2788 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit