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Article #423Re: Skara Brae?
From: ila... Liz Stokes
Date: Fri, 15 May 1992 22:21
Date: Fri, 15 May 1992 22:21
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In article <1992May15.1...@tc.cornell.edu> j...@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu (Brian Chung) writes:
>In article <1992May15.1...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> jnl...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jeffrey N Long) writes:
>> I posted this question on rec.games.misc, but I'll ask it here, since this
>>is the correct place for it. Is Skara Brae in U7 the same Skara Brae from
>>Bards Tale I? I'm pretty sure that was the name of the city in BT1. If so,
>>did Origin steal/buy/own the name or is there a Skara Brae in Germany?
>
> Why is everyone out to get Origin? Jeez. Skara Brae was in U3. I
>don't know about U1 or U2, though. BT1 came after U3. My understanding is
>that Origin licensed the name to EOA so that they could use the name.
In the Boston area phone listing of members of the SCA (Society
for Creative Anachronism) there is a listing for a Lord Hawkwind of Skara
Brae. I hear rumors that he worked/works for Origin :)
-Liz
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!yale.edu!cmcl2!panix!ilaine From: ila...@panix.com (Liz Stokes) Subject: Re: Skara Brae? Message-ID: <1992May15.222111.29924@panix.com> Date: Fri, 15 May 1992 22:21:11 GMT References: <1992May15.140838.25870@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992May15.142645.14259@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992May15.173426.18608@tc.cornell.edu> Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC Lines: 23 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit