gt0831c@prism.gatech.EDU (William Moss) (02/17/91)
Starting off with the disclaimer: I have no affiliation with this
store except as a satisfied customer. I am posting this because there
are many people on the net who are looking for a source of Infocom
games. If you have a similar source please email me or post to the net.
The store's name is:
Software $5 and $10
(somewhere on) Jimmy Carter Blvd.
Atlanta, Georgia
(404) 242-6633
They take orders over the phone. They do ship orders.
The games listed below are $10 each. Some games are shrink-wrapped
and some are not, if this makes a difference to you then you might
want to specifically ask for a shrink-wrapped copy. If you have a
game you might like to trade instead of buy, email to my account
and I would be delighted to trade for something I don't have.
(I'm currently looking for: Beyond Zork, Enchanter, Sorcerer,
Moonmist, Suspect, The Infocom Sampler, any Infocomics, Fooblitzky)
They also have a large selection of invisiclues (not necessarilly
for the games listed below) for $5 each.
They don't deal solely in Infocom stuff. For the mac, they also
have SDI, Kings of Chicago, Defenders of the Crown, and 101
Scripts and Buttons for Hypercard (1.x). They carry much more
software for other computers Apple ][, Amiga, and IBM.
Listed Below:
Starcross, Ballyhoo, Trinity, Infidel, The Witness, Suspended,
Planetfall, Stationfall, Spellbreaker, Wishbringer, Hollywood Hijinx
This is a compiled list of the software I have purchased from
Software $5 & $10. Some of it is quite old. The good thing is
that you get lots of documentaion. The bad things are that you
can't boot off of the disk (at least I can't) because of the
old systems on them. Some have trouble working with the HFS
(Heirarchal File System as opposed to MFS), saving and restoring
games is no problem, just format a floppy disk as single sided
(which makes the disk MFS) and save your games to it. I have
had no problems putting these games on a HFS formatted hard disk;
except for the fact that some of these games are copyprotected
and require you to insert the master disk when starting the game.
For the disks with this copy protection it also makes it
impossible to backup the disks. (ASIDE: If any one knows a way
to get around this, I would be most grateful for your help).
All of the games run on my machine a Mac IIcx running the latest
system software (System 6.0.7). The only bombs which have
occured are purely cosmetic in nature and don't effect gameplay
at all (quitting bombs some old games with an address
error, choosing About Infocom bombs the more recent ones because
Infocom tried to get fancy their about box and 32-bit color
quickdraw doesn't take too kindly to that.)
Well, here is the list...
Planetfall
MFS disk 122,880 bytes
Release 29 / Serial number 840118
Created Mon, Aug 6, 1984
Modified Thu, Oct 4, 1984
System Created: Tue, May 1, 1984
Book Format "Boldly Going Where Angels Fear to Tread"
Packaging Extras: 3 Postcards, Stellar Patrol Badge, 3 Journal pages
Key disk copy protection.
Save and Restore to MFS disk only.
No noticed bombs
Science Fiction - Standard Level by Steve Meretzsky
"Join the Patrol, and see the galaxy!" You took the posters advice,
bait and alland marched right over to the recruitment station near your home
on the backwater planet of Gallium. Images of exotic worlds, strange and
colorful aliens, and Deep Space heroism was scrubbing down the radioactive
leper colony on Ishmael-3.
But suppose that jumbo fortune cookie you got at Quang's Take-out
Asteroid last shore leave was right. Maybe you will indeed narrowly escape
disaster. It's even possible that you will travel to an unknown corner of
the universe, where you'll save a doomed planet -- or die in the attempt. In
fact, we guarantee it -- every crumb of it -- because that's just the way
the cosmic cookie crumbles.
Suspended
MFS disk 118,784 bytes
Created: Jan 1, 1904
Modified: Tue, May 22, 1984
System Created: Wed, May 2, 1984
Release 8 / Serial number 840521
Book Format: "XR54 Briefing for the Contra Central Mentality"
Packaging Extras: Cardboard Map, "Playing Pieces", 2 letters of
from Headquarters, Contra Central Mentality Lottery Card
Key disk copy protection
Save & Restore to MFS disks only.
After striking a key to Quit game, bombs with address error.
Science Fiction - Expert Level by Michael Berlyn
They said you would sleep for half a millennium -- not an unreasonable
length of time, considering you'd be in limited cryogenic suspension. Your
body would rest frozen at the planet's nerve center, an underground complex
20 miles beneath the surface. Your brain, they told you, would be wired
to
a network of computers; your mind would continue to operate at a minimal
level, overseeing maintenance of surface-side equilibrium. And you would
not awake, so they promised, until your 500 years had elapsed -- barring, of
course, the most dire emergency.
Then, and only the, would you be awakened to save your planet by
strategically manipulating six robots, each of whom perceives the world
differently. But such a catastrophe, you have been assured, could not
possibly occur.
Good morning.
Witness
MFS 118,784 bytes
Revision number 22 / Serial number 840924
Created: Mon, Aug 6, 1984
Modified: Wed, Oct. 10, 1984
System Created: Tue, May 1, 1984
Book Format "National Detective Gazette"
Packaging Extras: Front page of newspaper, matchbook,
telegram, suicide note
Key disk copy protection
Save and restore to MFS disk only
No noticed bombs
Mystery - Standard Level by Stu Galley
February 1938, Los Angeles. FDR's New Deal is finally rolling. Hitler's
rolling, too; this time through Austria. But as chief detective for a quiet
burgh on the outskirts of L.A., you've got other fish to fry.
One gilt-edged society dame is dead. And now it looks like some two-bit
grifter is putting the screws to he multi-millionaire old man. Then you
step in and the shakedown turns ugly. You're left with a stiff and a race
against the clock to nail your suspect... unless you get nailed first!
Nobody said a sordid family affair like this was going to be a cinch.
Everyone from the knock-out heiress to the poker-faced butler may end up
in the slammer before its over. Ahead of you is a Gordian knot of motives
and alibis. And the only testimony you can trust is that of your
own eyes -- because you are the witness.
Infidel
MFS 110,592 bytes
Created: Fri, Dec 20, 1985
Modified: Thu, Dec 18, 1986
System Created: Mon, Apr 8, 1985
Revision number 22 / Serial number 840924
Book Format: "Expedition Log Ellingsworth Pyramid Research"
Packaging Extras: 1 rather long letter, map, heiroglyphics code sheet
No Copy Protection
Works on HFS and MFS
System hangs when choosing About Infocom
Tales of Adventure - Advanced Level by Michael Berlyn
Infidel finds you marooned by your followers in the heart of the deadly
Egyptian Desert. A soldier of fortune by trade, you've come hither in
search of a great lost pyramid and its untold riches. Now, you must locate
and gain entry to the tomb, decipher its heiroglyphics and unravel its
mysteries one by one.
Through the antechamber, the Barge Room, the Chamber of Ra, death will lick
at your heels as you race to the shattering climax of this match of wits
between you and the most ingenious architects of all time - the ancient
Egyptians.
Trinity
MFS 279,040 bytes (requires 512K)
Created: Tue, Apr 15 1986
Modified: Mon, May 12, 1986
System Created: Mon, Apr 8, 1985
Release 11 / Serial Number 860509
Interpreter 3 Version H
Book Format: "The Illustrated Story of the Atomic Bomb"
Packaging Extras: Map of Trinity Camp, paper sundial, oragami swan
No Copy Protection
Works on HFS and MFS
System hangs after choosing About Infocom
Fantasy - Standard Level by Brian Moriarty
Time is out of joint; O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right
Hamlet I.v.
It is the last day of your $599 London vacation. Unfortunately its also the
first day of World War III. Only seconds remain before and H-bomb vaporizes
the city... and you with it.
Unless you escape to another time, another dimension.
For every atomic explosion unlocks the door to a secret universe; a plane
between fantasy and reality, filled with curious artifacts and governed by
its own mischevious logic. You'll crisscross time and space as you explore
this facinating universe, learning to control its inexorable power.
Trinity leads you on a journey back to the dawn of the atomic age... and
puts the course of history in your hands.
Ballyhoo
MFS 145,920 bytes
Created: Fri, Dec 20, 1985
Modified: Fri, Jan 3, 1986
System Created: Mon, Apr 8, 1985
Release 97 / Serial number 851218
Book Format: "The Traveling Circus that Time Forgot Inc."
Packaging Extras: Circus Balloon, Ad for Nostrum's Curative, Circus Ticket
No copy protection
Works on HFS and MFS
Mystery - Standard Level by Jeff O'Neill
Spangleland! Sawdust and glitter, buffoons and cotten candy! Its a place
where your wildest dreams can come true! At least that's what you think
until you get behind the scenes at the big top. Then you learn easilly
sweet dreams can turn into nightmares.
Beyond the spangles lies a seedy world of deception and crime. Exploring
the tattered corner of the circus lot, you overhear a conversation about the
owner's daughter. It seems she's been kidnapped, and the hired gumshoe
couldn't find the nose on his face. Good samaritan that you are, you start
poking around on your own.
But watch your step. As the night progresses, you realize you're in as much
trouble as the little girl. For the kidnapper is lurking right there on the
lot, trying to set you up for a permenant slot in the freak show.
Spellbreaker
MFS 145,408 bytes
Created: Wed, Sep 4, 1985
Modified: Wed Sep 18, 1985
System Created: Mon, Apr 8, 1985
Release 63 / Serial number 850916
Book Format: "Frobozz Magic, Magic Equipment Catalog"
Packaging Extras: Enchanter guild plastic pin, 6 Magician "Baseball" cards
No copy protection
Save and Restore to MFS volume only
Bombs when selecting About Infocom
Fantasy - Expert Level by Steve Meretzsky
Spellbreaker, the riveting conclusion to the Enchanter trilogy , explores
the mysterious underpinnings of the Zorkian universe. A world founded on
sorcery suddenly finds its magic is failing, and only you, leader of the
circle of enchanters, can uncover and destroy the cause of this paralyzing
chaos.
The very core of your civilaation is under seige, and only a perilous
journeythrough the black foundation of magic itself will yield a chance for
survival.
And although your triumph over this unknown evil is uncertain, you must
embark without hesitation and prove yourself the worthiest mage in the land.
Wishbringer
MFS 144,896 bytes
Created: Fri Mar 8, 1985
Modified: Fri, May 3, 1985
System Created: Wed, May 2, 1984
Release 68 / Serial Number 850501
Book Format: "The Legend of Wishbringer"
Packaging Extras: Wishbringer glow in the dark stone, sealed letter, map of
town
Key disk copy protection
Save and Restore to MFS disk only
Bombs when selcting About Infocom
Fantasy - Introductory Level by Brian Moriarty
Its an ordinary day in your ordinary little town, and you've been performing
your ordinary mail clerk's duties in an alltogether ordinary way. But
there's something quite extraordinary in today's mail. It's a ransom note
for a kidnapped cat, and it will lead you through unbelievably harrowing
adventures to Wishbringer, a stone possessing undreamt-of powers. For the
note in question is addressed to someone in your ordinary little town, its
postmarked special delivery to parts unknown. And its true destination is
somewhere beyond your wildest dreams.
Starcross
MFS 97,280 bytes
Created: Fri, Jan 1, 1904
Modified: Tue, Jun 19, 1984
System Created: Tue May 2, 1984
Release 17 / Serial number 821021
Book Format: "Log of the M.C.S. Starcross"
Packaging Extras: Map of relevant space, Letter on alien encounters
Save and Restore to MFS disk only
Protect bit set; no other copy protection
After striking a key to quit, bombs with an address error
Science Fiction - Expert Level by Dave Lebling
There is something out there. You're a deep space prospector aboard the MCS
Starcross, a one-person vessel outfitted for the discovery and mining of
black holes. You've invested all you have and then some into a search for a
dream, a dream that you hold in common with every miner since the first
human who panned for gold -- the dream of the really big strike. And your
patience and persistence are about to be paid back in aces. For in just a
few moments, you're going to discover the biggest find of all time -- a
titanic starship from the far edge of the galaxy. Or perhaps...
Something -- or someone -- has just found you
An adventure beyond any in human experience is unfolding. You must gain
entry to the extrordinary spacecraft and encounter its inhabitants -- a
bizarre collection of life forms from every corner of the Milky Way. You
must acquire what help you can from them and fend off whatever harm they
send your way. But most of all, you must exert every ounce of your courage,
cunning and skills to unravel the mystery the great ship poses and meet the
incredible challenge it bears. And your very life is riding on your success
or failure because...
Someone is watching your every move.
Hollywood Hijinx
Made in 1987
(Unfortunately my disk has already died so no info on game)
Book Format: "Tinsel World, News from Hollywood"
Packaging Extras: Swizzle Stick, Post mortem letter, photo of uncle
Unclassified - by Dave Anderson
Stationfall
MFS 145,920 bytes
Created: Fri, Dec 20, 1985
Modified: Wed, Sep 4, 1963
System Created: Mon, Apr 8, 1985
Box Format (no intro story)
Packaging Extras: Blueprints to Spacestation, 3 Buerocratic Letters, Patrol
Patch
No copy protection
Works on HFS and MFS volumes
Probably crashes when choosing About Infocom
Science Fiction - Standard Level by Steve Meretzsky
Sequel to Planetfall