Just a thought: Bill Gates IS an old fart :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence Walker" <lgwalker_at_mts.net>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 5:12 AM
Subject: Re: Sierra Adventure Games
> How can anyone who is not a DEC-freak fail to
> remember "Leasure-Suit Larry". For obvious self-
> derogatory reasons this was one of my favorite
> games. I have V 1 for MSDOS and 1-3 for Atari ST.
> I don't especially like adventure games but it was
> indeed "special" if only for it's sense of self-depreciating
> humor. That's something that seems to be lost for this
> generation of hackers(?) who seem to think substituting
> "z" for "s" is some sort of statement.
>
> I have a progam somewhere for 8 bit Ataris that strung
> together a bunch of stills of a woman performing felatio,
> which I found more humorous than erotic. Also some 8-
> bit Demos by Michel Jarre and another even bigger
> German demo programmer whose name escapes me .
> Some of their sound-light programs are even now
> astounding. This was on-the-edge shit and for the most
> part seems to be dying (what do you do when not coding
> boring stuff) in favor of repeating some hi-paying sort of
> state propaganda shit based on GI-Joe.
> "Up the Empire". Blecch !
>
> Oh well us old farts are gonna die soon and the Bill
> Gate's will be free to have their way. Memories are short.
>
> Lawrence
>
> On 29 Jan 2003, , Ed Tillman wrote:
>
> > I don't remember LSL, but mama suggests trying to see if
> > anyone remembers or has "Castle of Doctor Brain," or any of
> > its sequels... I don't remember those either, but she
> > assures me they're late '70s - early '80s, and worked on
> > both Atari and TRS-80s...
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Ed
> > San Antonio, Tx, USA
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "chris" <cb_at_mythtech.net>
> > To: "Classic Computer" <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:18 AM
> > Subject: RE: Sierra Adventure Games
> >
> >
> > > >> ... Leisure Suit Larry 1, too.
> > > >
> > > >Hey! I still have LSL1 1.0 - 5.25" original disks, not a
> > > >copy (fished it out of a pile of debris left by a
> > > >departing college student a number of years ago)
> > > >
> > > >It's... um... a *classic*!
> > >
> > > Ah, but do you have "SoftPorn" the game that LSL-1 was a
> > > rip off of? I played that on my Apple II eons ago (I just
> > > saw it on one of the game archive links that passed thru
> > > this list recently in anyone wanted to DL it)
> > >
> > > -chris
> > > <http://www.mythtech.net>
>
>
> lgwalker_at_ mts.net
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