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Posted January 09, 2014
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Fever_Discordia: snip
As an old Amigan, I'd love to see the Firebird/Rainbird titles get picked up. In the specific cases of the ones listed here, I believe the DOS versions are fairly comparable to the Amiga editions, rather than pronouncedly inferior as others often are. That could be fog-of-memory on my part however.

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Crosmando: Also, if BloodNet does come, that means the other MicroProse/Infogrames "horror" games of the early 90's (which would now presumably be owned by Atari) might be coming: Legacy: Realm of Terror, Prisoner of Ice, and Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet.
Would be wonderful if so!
Posted January 09, 2014
Shadow of the Comet would be an awesome release.
Posted January 09, 2014
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Crosmando: Also, if BloodNet does come, that means the other MicroProse/Infogrames "horror" games of the early 90's (which would now presumably be owned by Atari) might be coming: Legacy: Realm of Terror, Prisoner of Ice, and Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet.
I've tried at least twice to get in touch with Chaosium people (the apparent owners of the "Call of Cthulu" trademark), and the emails just won't get through. I did get through to Greg Stafford who used to work at Chaosium, and I just now sent an email seeing if he can help me.
Posted January 09, 2014
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tfishell: I've tried at least twice to get in touch with Chaosium people (the apparent owners of the "Call of Cthulu" trademark), and the emails just won't get through. I did get through to Greg Stafford who used to work at Chaosium, and I just now sent an email seeing if he can help me.
I thought everything Lovecraft was now public domain?
Posted January 09, 2014
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Fever_Discordia: 7th Legion (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Across the Rhine (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Air War series (1942: The Pacific, European) (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Bloodnet (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Bubsy series (Accolade - Atari - Tommo)
Challenge of the Five Realms (Microplay/Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Command H.Q. (Microplay/Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Deadlock series (Accolade - Atari - Tommo)
Demolition Racer (Infogrames/Atari - Tommo)
Elite (Firebird - Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Eradicator (Accolade - Atari - Tommo)
F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter series (Inc. F-19 Stealth Fighter) (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Falcon (a.k.a F-16 Fighting Falcon) series (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Fleet Defender: The F-14 Tomcat Simulation (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Gunship series (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Knights of the Sky (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Lightspeed / Hyperspeed series (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
MicroProse Entertainment Pack Vol #1: Dr Floyd's Desktop Toys (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Nam (GT Interactive - Atari - Tommo)
Operation Blockade (Infogrames/Atari - Tommo)
Orbiter (Spectrum Holobyte - Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Redline (Accolade - Atari - Tommo)
Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Sentinel, The (a.k.a The Sentry) (Firebird - Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Shadow Ops: Red Mercury (Atari - Tommo)
Sid Meier's Covert Action (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Silent Service series (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Slave Zero (Infogrames/Atari - Tommo)
Snowmobile Championship 2000 (GT Interactive - Atari - Tommo)
Starlord (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Steel Tide (Infogrames/Atari - Tommo)
Stunt Driver (Spectrum Holobyte - Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Sword of the Samurai (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror (Infogrames/Atari - Tommo)
Task Force 1942 (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
This Means War! (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Tycoon City: New York (Atari - Tommo)
Undergarden, The (Atari - Tommo)
Virtual Karts (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Weird Dreams (Rainbird - Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
World War II GI (GT Interactive - Atari - Tommo)
Zapper: One Wicked Cricket! (Infogrames/Atari - Tommo)
Little known fact : Covert Action is the best game on that list.

Whoever won't instabuy it the moment it arrives on gog will be wasting precious minutes of his life.
Posted January 10, 2014
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tfishell: I've tried at least twice to get in touch with Chaosium people (the apparent owners of the "Call of Cthulu" trademark), and the emails just won't get through. I did get through to Greg Stafford who used to work at Chaosium, and I just now sent an email seeing if he can help me.
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Crosmando: I thought everything Lovecraft was now public domain?
I think Lovecraft's original works may be public domain but any original works using his concepts and what not are not public domain, I think. Standard " I am not a lawyer"blurb goes here :D
Post edited January 10, 2014 by JudasIscariot
Posted January 10, 2014
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Crosmando: I thought everything Lovecraft was now public domain?
Both H. P. Lovecraft's works and Robert Howard's works rightfully belong in the public domain, but companies such as Chaosium and Paradox Entertainment seem to be abusing trademark (distinct from copyright, and essentially perpetual) to maintain a sort of virtual copyright on the ideas. Others are suppressed from challenging this because of prohibitive court costs involved in IP claims.

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_the_Barbarian#Copyright_and_trademark_dispute
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_Entertainment
http://lovecraft.wikia.com/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_H._P._Lovecraft
(search "lovecraft public domain" etc for more)

That said, the copyright for the games themselves is a different matter. Adapting or using ideas, stories, characters, etc from the public domain to create a new work does not make that new work public domain.

Edit: Ninja'd by Judas! And like him, I should add "I am not a lawyer." ;)
Post edited January 10, 2014 by SeduceMePlz
Posted January 11, 2014
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TwoHandedSword: I'm surprised BlueMooner isn't already in this thread, complaining that his ears were burning.
I was orbiting the thread.

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Momo1991: That might be because he happens to be she ;-)
Um...
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TwoHandedSword: Rassem frassem, could'a swore... :p
Er...
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JudasIscariot: BlueMooner is actually a very clever A.I. construct and, thus, beyond such things as gender :P
Well...

I thought it was well known what I was, that everyone knew that AI constru... people (I meant people). People like us of course have genders. See, I laugh out loud, just like people. 101.

Actually, I sat here for a while trying to think of some funny joke I could do about gender, but came up dry. Oh well. No, I'm male.
Posted January 11, 2014
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BlueMooner: I'm male.
VINDICATION!


. . . wait, was that my out-loud voice?
Posted January 11, 2014
meh, only 1 game this week... It was a good release but still...
Posted January 11, 2014
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TwoHandedSword: I'm surprised BlueMooner isn't already in this thread, complaining that his ears were burning.
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BlueMooner: I was orbiting the thread.

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Momo1991: That might be because he happens to be she ;-)
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BlueMooner: Um...
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TwoHandedSword: Rassem frassem, could'a swore... :p
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BlueMooner: Er...
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JudasIscariot: BlueMooner is actually a very clever A.I. construct and, thus, beyond such things as gender :P
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BlueMooner: Well...

I thought it was well known what I was, that everyone knew that AI constru... people (I meant people). People like us of course have genders. See, I laugh out loud, just like people. 101.

Actually, I sat here for a while trying to think of some funny joke I could do about gender, but came up dry. Oh well. No, I'm male.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! But, but, but...how?

~egg-covered face~

Um, hehe, so sorry? Srsly, please accept my apology?
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BlueMooner: I'm male.
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TwoHandedSword: VINDICATION!

. . . wait, was that my out-loud voice?
LOL!

~Lucy has some 'splaining to do~
Post edited January 11, 2014 by Momo1991
Posted January 11, 2014
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BlueMooner: No, I'm male.
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Momo1991: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! But, but, but...how?
Well, you see, when a Y chromosome loves an X chromosome very much...
Posted January 11, 2014
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Momo1991: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! But, but, but...how?

~egg-covered face~

Um, hehe, so sorry? Srsly, please accept my apology?
LOL!
You don't have to apologize to me! I can't help but feel this is my fault somehow. Perhaps I was vague or oblique in some way and some joke or remark I made was misconstrued. I like to be playful with words, and even flirt with people when I don't know anything about them (including their gender), so perhaps it was something I said at some point.

It could also be that I'm gay, as perhaps I flirted with a male poster here and you took that to mean I was female, I don't know. In any case, I feel bad that you've had a false image of me in your head this whole time. I can't help but feel responsible that I'm suddenly not the person you thought I was. So the real question here is...

can you accept my apology?
Posted January 11, 2014
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BlueMooner: So the real question here is...

can you accept my apology?
Feh, that's not even close. The REAL question here is... the one whose answer is already known to be 42.
Post edited January 11, 2014 by TwoHandedSword
Posted January 11, 2014
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TwoHandedSword: Feh, that's not even close. The REAL question here is... the one whose answer is already known to be 42.
I don't get it.
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