I second Uncle Roger's comments. Ward is a great guy and is doing the
Vic-20 community a great service. I have also contributed to the archiving
and CD project. BTW, the URL is
http://members.aol.com/wshrake/index.htm
Cliff Gregory
cgregory_at_lrbcg.com
-----Original Message-----
From: classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
To: Cgregory <Cgregory>
Date: Friday, March 20, 1998 1:55 AM
Subject: Vic-20 heads-up
>
>Sorry for the on-topic post, but, I just wanted to let folks know that
>there is a guy (Ward(?) Shrake) who is archiving Vic-20 cartridges. He has
>a list posted on the web (and of course, I don't have URL here on the
>train) and is actually taking images of the cartridge ROM's for a CD-ROM
>(as well as scanning pictures of the labels and such.)
>
>If anyone is really interested, e-mail me and I'll dig up the URL where
>he's got a list of all the cartridges that were available. (If you have
>one that's not on the list, please let him know!)
>
>I'm proud to say that I did have one that wasn't on the list (Fun with
>Music, by Epyx) and am sending it, along with another (apparently
>incredibly rare) cart (Dot Gobbler) for him to take images of.
>
>This sort of serious, practical preservation is definitely to be commended.
>
>(I remember staying up late and playing one of the text adventures on a
>Vic-20 with a friend of mine. His first introduction to computers. I was
>happy to be able to offer him a new experience, since he had provided me
>with so many.)
>
>
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>Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad
>roger_at_sinasohn.com that none but madmen know."
>Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
>San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/
>
>
Received on Fri Mar 20 1998 - 05:37:08 GMT