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@~Can you help with this? I'd uploaded a number of AGT games
@~onto the SynTax site for Paul who is connected with the IF
@~Archive.  I asked if he reviewed games and this is what he said.
From: J. Paul Sanders, by email

Sorry, no - I don't review games at all. What I mainly try and do
is track down older IF games and then add them (and their source
code if possible) to the IF-Archive. Have had some notable
successes in the past - managed to nail down "Volentine Gambit",
"WraithBlaster" (with source), "Advanced Xoru" (the complete
game), "Starship Columbus", "Oklib's Revenge" (!), and am
currently about to get the complete "Legacy of the Necromancer"
trilogy (already have the registered version myself, and the
author is leaning towards releasing it into the public domain).
There are two games I've been trying to track down for years with
less luck - "Pilot: Flight Into Fantasy" (the complete game, not
the crippled version generally available), and "Moonstone" (sequel
to "Nirvana" - both by Bill White) - if you ever happen to come
across either of them, please keep me in mind. :)

@~So, can anyone help with any of these games? If so, please let
@~me know ... Sue
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@~Only one more letter this issue from:
Vic Horsley, Haverfordwest
@~which accompanied a disk with an almost-complete Battlespire
@~solution

I'm sorry about this but I have had to give up with "Battlespire".
The damage to me through conflicts and crashes has been
catastrophic, I have lost several programmes, including one of my
genealogy programs which I can never truly replace.

I have probably caused some of the trouble myself, due to running
three separate programs of the game side-by-side but as said
before it is a game prone to crashes all the time and I just came
up against too many graphics on level six.

There is only one level left so hopefully someone can finish that,
though I don't envy them, what's left of level six is straight
forward and I would normally carry on with one game just to finish
the last level but with problems caused to my internet set-up, I
just do not want to know. if no one has done it say in six months
maybe I'll try again, we'll see.

I have explained all on level six.

@~That's one of the problems of trying to play an old game on a
@~modern machine though I've never heard of one causing that much
@~damage before.




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