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From: gamble@spotted.rice.edu (Ben Gamble)
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Subject: [rec.games.misc] Re: Omega (Again?)
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Date: 26 Nov 90 01:32:17 GMT
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In article <1219@tau.sm.luth.se> d86-lko@sm.luth.se (Lars-Ove Karlsson) writes:
|tcs@router.jhuapl.edu writes:
|>   Being new to this particular newsgroup, I was wondering if some kind 
|>soul could point me in the right direction to ftp a copy of omega for the 
|>IBM? I would like to get the source too.
|Me too . . .

Oh, you just want an ftp reference?  Okay, omega sources may be had
from paul.rutgers.edu, in the directory pub/brothers.  (This is the
author's machine, so I think it'll be the latest version (: )

As for a binary PC copy, well, I've never seen/played one that worked.
At all.  (They all crash, rather spectacularly.)  Maybe others'
experiences are different.

--
Ben Gamble                | "It is unworthy of great men to lose hours
gamble@owlnet.rice.edu    |  like slaves in the labor of calculation."
Malcolm@someMuds          |                   -- Pascal