Re: Newton, James Cook and the Archi.

In message <bc104c2e4f.harriet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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          Harriet Bazley <bazley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On 7 Oct 2007 as I do recall,
>           Alex' A. Interrants wrote:
> 
> > In message <3ae2ca2d4f.harriet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >           Harriet Bazley <bazley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > 
> > > On 6 Oct 2007 as I do recall,
> > >           Alex' A. Interrants wrote:
> >
> > > > Well, so I'm still playing "Pirates" on the good old Commodore 64.
I
> > > > will never understand why people are advised to buy a new computer
for
> > > > gaming. Most of the best titles are *very* old. Or very
undemanding of
> > > > hardware.
> > > 
> > > I played "Pirates" enthusiastically via the VICE emulator, but if
you've
> > > actually got a C64 you're probably better off using that.   Good
> > > game....
> > 
> > People are pupli****ng more new games of good quality each year for the
> > Commodore 64 as for RISC OS. The C64 here is still fun, the RISC OS
> > machine more the work horse.
> > 
> Can you list URLs?   I might be interested.

http://www.protovision-online.de
http://www.boulder-dash.nl/down/RTAD_Pack.zip
http://www.absurdistlover.com/boulderdash
http://home.pages.at/mombasajoe/c64/aa4games.htm
http://www.gtw64co.uk
http://www.georg-rottensteiner.de/files/joegunn.zip

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> (The main trouble I found was that the first disc images I tried to
> download from the Internet turned out to be corrupted or truncated - it
> took 3 goes to get a working copy of "Pirates"....) 

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