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From: don@col.hp.com (Don Allison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Sideline Software
Message-ID: <16830012@col.hp.com>
Date: 2 Apr 91 19:55:29 GMT
References: <1991Apr2.032712.20450@nmt.edu>
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division
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/ col:comp.sys.atari.st / jcksnsr@nmt.edu (Admiral JC) /  8:27 pm  Apr  1, 1991 /

>    Hey, quickie question... has anyone out there had any dealings with 
>Sideline Software in Florida... I ran across their add in the Mar. Current
>Notes and really liked the prices.  Really liked their prices, really, really
>low... perhaps $20 below nearest competitors on some stuff.  Maybe too low.
>
>    Does this company actually exist and do they actually sell what they
>advetise at what they advertise (14.95 for a game that everyone else has for
>about $32.95 or more).
>
>    Just wondering before I give'em my visa carsd no...

Well, I ordered a copy of Archipelagos from them and they shipped it promptly.
It wasn't as fancy as the original copy of Archipelagos I had (this one had
a box, a disk, and a folded sheet of paper with instructions, such as they
were, while my other copy had a mulitpage stapled manual) but it had everything
you needed (and at about 1/4 the price I paid at my local dealer for my
first copy).

Based on my one experience, I'd order from them again...

Don Allison
don@col.hp.com

And now for my (slightly related) question:

Has anyone had any luck getting Archipelagos to work at all?  After I bought my
copy from the local dealer, I broke my ST trying to upgrade the memory and
by the time I got it working again and got around to trying Archipelagos, my
dealer had cleaned out the bank and split town, leaving his financier holding
the bag...so when I found it wouldn't boot, I was stuck.  I ordered a new
copy from Sideline, and it has the same behaviour...can't copy it, can't
boot with it, etc....is this a program that broke on upgrading to TOS 1.4?
Is something flakey in my machine?  Or by some remarkable coincidence did I
just get two bad copies of the same program?  (I'm going to call Sideline
and ask for their help, but I thought since the subject came up here, I'd
ask here as well).