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   Message 381 of 718   
   Questman to Aeonilys   
   Re: Swords and Sorcery   
   10 Jan 06 16:17:52   
   
   From: questman@UBESUXthemajorbbs.com   
      
   Aeonilys wrote:   
   > I was wondering if anybody remembers or plays or has played this game.   
   > If so, perhaps you can identify or answer some of the questions I have   
   > regarding the issues I've encountered in the game.   
   >   
   > I've just begun to play this game again and have re-discovered its   
   > apparent bugs.   
   >   
   >   
   > This game's documentation is definitely lacking and many aspects of the   
   > game I think are unexplained and mysterious.   
   >   
   > It's kind of odd that I have such a keen interest to a game like this   
   > even with all its problem issues.  Maybe it's just that I had at one   
   > time played it and just wish it can be completed one day.   
   >   
      
   Johnson, this game was produced by Logicom in the 1993-timeframe.  It   
   was a very good beginning to what promised to be an excellent game, and   
   was one of the earlier games in a series of ANSI 1/4 screen RPGs.   
      
   The problem was that a company (I forget offhand, I have the details at   
   home) sued Logicom, claiming that the game was too similar to a game   
   (board game, I think) they produced, and Logicom was issued a cease and   
   desist order.   
      
   Rather than change the game, or fight it, Logicom pulled the game from   
   the market, and the game was not sold when Logicom sold off its ISV   
   catalog game by game back in 1997.  Don Arnel's lost all copies of all   
   of his source code, meaning, unless I can track down another one of his   
   programmers who happens to have it, I can never include this product in   
   my restoration project, and it's lost forever.   
      
   Sorry for the bad news.   
      
   http://www.themajorbbs.com - The Major BBS Restoration Project   
   telnet://bbs.elwynor.com / telnet://hs.host.net   
      
   Rick   
      
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