From: Charles T. Turley Email: cturley@grin.net Date: 9/18/98 Archives; BEASTIARY.SDK, SC.SDK, SCDATA.A.SDK, SCDATA.B.SDK, SPACE.I.SDK SPACEII.SDK, TRADER.SDK, TRAVELLER.SDK, WORDGEN.SDK Status: Freeware For those of you who have and use the IIgs Emulator -> Gus, I've tested the above ShrinkIt archives by drag & drop over the Gus icon on my PowerMac's and found they all launch/boot and run very well. I have no idea of how they might function with any other Apple II or IIgs emulators. Information and Email contact about the formerly commercial Apple II games and their utility titles that have been reclassified as freeware by their copyright holder/owner and archived in ShrinkIt disk file format for public access and download from this Apple II ftp site - follows. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Sanders Email: timmon@primenet.com -------------------------- Hi Tom, I really appreciate your offer to help me out with this project. I was hoping you'd respond again this second time around. I got your email last month, but was called over to Europe unexpectedly a few days early and was unable to respond. When I returned a few days ago I couldn't find your earlier email post or the printout I'd made of it. Anyways - if you could send me your snail-mail address again, I will get the apple distettes in the mail to you. Did you still need/want to contact the copyright holder to verify his willingness to release the games as freeware? If so, his email address is: FarFurute@aol.com (expect a few days delay - he is sometimes slow to answer his email, and is often very terse in his reply when he does respond). He has agreed to release the following games: The Volentine Gambit Space I Space II (All three are text-adventures made for his role-playing game - "Traveller.") In addition, he also sent me three distettes with 'utilities' for the game. They are a lower priority for me conversion-wise compared to the text-adventures, but if you could also convert them I'd really appreciate it as well. They are: Trader Beastiary WorldGen Along with the diskettes, I'll send along a pre-stamped Priority Mailer for you to return the disks in. Once I have them back I will add the text-files of the documentation from the original packages (working on these right now), zip them, and then upload them to the asimov site and the IF-Archive (ftp.gmd.de). Thanks again, Paul Sanders ------------> I just sent an email to you, then came across this letter Marc (the copyright holder) sent at the time he mailed the text-adventures to me. I thought I'd send you a copy as it briefly explains the copyright situation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Paul, > >I've found the following items (I kept finding more, so I had to repack the >parcel three times). Enclosed are the following: > >Space I & II. Edu-Ware. They produced these text adventures by basing it on >Traveller. They eventually settled our copyright infringment suit by paying us >$10,000 (it cost us more than that in legal fees) and sending us what stock >they still had on hand. I think we received maybe 50 copies. This is one of >them. They also transferred the copyright to GDW as part of the settlement. >GDW transferred the copyright to me when they closed down. > >Star Crystal, Episode 1 - Mertactor: The Volentine Gambit. Barac Limited. This >is the title you originally asked about and I found in my files. I definitely >need this one back. As with Space I & II, this title became mine when GDW >closed down. > >Trader. GDW. This is a Traveller space merchant game put out in small >quantities by GDW in the mid-80's. > >WordGen. GDW. Creates words in various Traveller languages. > >Beastiary. GDW. Creates animal encounter tables for Traveller. > >Marc Miller -------------------------------------------------------------------------- At 10:02 AM 8/12/98 +0100, you wrote: >Hi Paul, >I just got home and checked the mailbox to find your parcel with the disks. >I had a side-track personal matter that requires my efforts for the next day >or two. I'll get on the disk conversions, uploads of the shrinkit archives >and so on ASAP and then send them all back to you in the return envelope. Thanks, I appreciate it. I've finished keying in the documentation for Space I & II - I will try sending them this evening as email to you. When you upload the shrinkit files please also include them (along with the text-file containing release info. that the copyright holder has asked me to include in the releases - I should have it ready to send in the next few days). I am about 1/4 done keying in the info for Volentine Gambit, and should also have it sent to you in the next few days as well. When you send back the original disks and conversions, could you also please send back copies of the shrinkit files? I've already had several people on the TML (Traveller Mailing List) request them (rather than conversions) from me. Anyways - thanks again for all your efforts. Cordially, Paul Sanders timmon@primenet.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRAVELLER is a registered trademark of FarFuture Enterprises. (c) 1998 All Rights Reserved. Marc Miller (FarFuture@aol.com) has graciously agreed to release the following three text adventures as freeware. They are: Starcrystal, Episode I - Mertactor: The Volentine Gambit Space I Space II Originally released in the mid-80's for the Apple computer, they are currently being re-released in both their original format (as shrinkit files), and as disk images which can then be played with the use of an emulator upon most current computer platforms. These three text adventures were written for TRAVELLER - a science fiction role-playing game that was first published in 1977. Over twenty years later TRAVELLER is alive and well, and is currently entering its fifth edition. Look for it at a hobby or comic shop near you. If you'd like to write your own text adventures for TRAVELLER, the authoring software is freely available, and easily downloaded from the Interactive Fiction Archive at: ftp.gmd.de/if-archive Many thanks to Charles Turley for his assistance in the conversion and release of these games as freeware. Enjoy, Paul Sanders 8/18/98 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -EOF-