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From: rjv21207@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Remembering the classics.. (was:Re:
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Date: 28 Sep 90 14:28:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!rjv21207    Sep 28 09:28:00 1990


Wow...all of this discussion on "classic" apple games. You know, I'd say
soemone could really make a killing re-releasing a lot of those old games...

Here are some older ones I can remember playing also:  Boulder Dash, Drelbs,
Tax-Man, Thief (Berzerk), Space Eggs, Apple-Oids, Snake Byte, Plasmania,
etc etc etc... I can't even remember the names anymore...

The great thing was, a lot of the older, less complex games that were out
10 years ago, are just as entertaining to play today (if out have tmem)
than the were when they came out...

Anyone remember the game Space Vikings from Sub-Logic? That was another
pretty good game.  

Somone mentioned a while ago abut patents and copyrights-- I do believe
a patent never expires, and compyrights are for either 3 or 7 years.  That
would mean unless a company re-newed a copyright on a piece of software it
would effectively go into the public domain after the copyright expired,
right?  If that is the case, wouldn't it be nice to have an FTP site with
a bunch of the old, out-of-copyright Apple games?  Something to consider
perhaps?  (I'm not implicating that everyone go out an pirate stuff either,
so please don't flame me on this one... )

Oh well... back to work...


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