Stargate -- blah!

K.LIU

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Mar 2, 1985, 11:24:37 AM3/2/85

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<Flame on>
It took 52+K, 1000+ packets and 1/2 hour + using Kermit,
and guess what? Stargate DOESn'T WORK!!!!

hou2e!ksl
<Flame off>

J.B. LaRue

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Mar 5, 1985, 7:04:27 PM3/5/85

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Gee, it took about 56+k and it only took about 2 1/2 minutes using Kermit
and guess what!?!?! It STILL doesn't work!

(know why? cause I'm trying to run it on a rainbow-not a p.c.)

jbl

DARIN JOHNSON

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Mar 5, 1985, 8:06:03 PM3/5/85

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hmmn. It didn't work for me either, but it only took 15 minutes using
Kermit. (Put it on a hard disk so I don't know if it fit on a floppy
or not.)

Nick Yannaccone

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Mar 6, 1985, 1:52:01 PM3/6/85

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*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR LIFE ***

I can understand your frustration but I am afraid the problem may be
in your downloading. I used uudecode as specified and downloaded with
no problems. The package came right up.
-- nick
{hplabs|ios|allegra}!oliveb!nick

The Hacker

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Mar 6, 1985, 3:24:29 PM3/6/85

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I have received numerous net.people junk mail with things
like this:
> don't flame unless you find the problem.
The problem is it doesn't work.
> and did you uudecode it?
Do you think I am dumb? The instructions said:
>Here is the public domain version of Atari's arcade game
>"STARGATE". It requires an IBM PC with a color graphics
>card. This file has been uuencoded so to unpack it, cut it
>at the mark and type
>
>% uudecode <filename>
And the silly...
> Are you sure you downloaded it correctly?
Geez, but I AM NOT DUMB, at least not like these
mail messages.

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\////////////////
The Hacker
hou2e!ksl
///////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

Harold Schloss

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Mar 6, 1985, 5:29:11 PM3/6/85

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FLAME ON!!
Well it took me about 7 minutes to transfer using crosstalk XVI and
my local copy of UMODEM. IT ran just fine and is very enjoyable. I don't
know what the bulk of you feel about this, but I always try to assume that
when something doesn't work that is not the senders fault, but rather it got
messed up somewhere further down the line. Anyway stargate works for me and
I am enjoying playing it.

--
Hal Schloss
(from the Software Lounge at) Pacesetter Systems Inc.
{trwrb|allegra|burdvax|cbosgd|hplabs|ihnp4|sdcsvax|aero|uscvax|ucla-cs|
bmcg|sdccsu3|csun|orstcs|akgua|randvax}!sdcrdcf!psivax!woof
or {ttdica|quad1|bellcore|scgvaxd}!psivax!woof

Michael Gingell

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Mar 7, 1985, 8:47:35 AM3/7/85

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I uudecoded it, downloaded it and ran it and ...

On my Data General One with MS-DOS 2.1 it hangs ..

On my PC (early model upgraded with hard drive) it runs fine.

Proving once again that all PCs are not reated equal.

Mike Gingell

....decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!mjg

Bart Massey

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Mar 7, 1985, 3:09:07 PM3/7/85

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At this point, would whoever is in charge of ksl's machine please
take his news privileges away? He is obviously completely unaware of the
rules of etiquette, both of the net and of life in general.

Mr. ksl,

Believe it or not, the people you call dumb, silly, etc., were
actually trying to help you -- this is their only crime. You see, the
problem is that the majority of us (including myself) had no problem
downloading and then executing this game. We appreciated having it
posted (although now that it is apparently non-public-domain, we shall
probably have to throw it away anyhow), and hated to see you flame the
poster because of your apparently unique set of problems. A little
politeness would have gone a long way toward making your views palatable
to me, at least...

*SIGNED*
Bart Massey
...tektronix!reed!bart

P.S. -- Shouldn't there be a net.sources.games.d newsgroup for this
kind of thing? Sorry about posting it to a sources group, but I didn't
know where else the readers of this group would see it...

John Miller

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Mar 8, 1985, 11:17:20 AM3/8/85

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My Z-150 had no trouble with it. -- runs fine

--

John Miller
Dept. of Pharmacology, UNC-CH
1104 FLOB 231H
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
(919) 966-1153
...!{decvax,akgua}!mcnc!ecsvax!phco

Michael E. Meyer

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Mar 17, 1985, 6:15:44 PM3/17/85

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Could someone repost stargate? Also I want to use Crosstalk to capture it
and send it to my PC, how do I do it without having the screen go berserk?
Precise instructions for this novice user would be nice...

Michael E. Meyer
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(503) 627-2628

Christopher Paull

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Mar 21, 1985, 7:10:33 PM3/21/85

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I too have had trouble getting Stargate to work. I think that this is
due to my inexperience with down loading (and using a unx operating system).
Could someone explain the proceedure so I can figure out what I'm doing
wrong. I have tryed to use both capture and rxmodem commands from cross-
tlk. Thanks for your help.

-chris