From: corey@tsgc.synchro.net.remove-r6o-this   
      
    To: bradw   
    Re: Re: Swords and Sorcery   
    By: bradw to alt.bbs.majorbbs on Tue Jan 10 2006 09:10 pm   
      
    > i think have an actual copy of this game...assuming i could find it....(or   
    > did)? not sure how legit it is..unsure if this helps   
    >   
    > brad   
    > former sysop lost gonzo bbs   
    >   
    >   
    > "Questman" wrote in message   
    > news:4wVwf.31392$88.15336@fe39.usenetserver.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   
    > >   
      
   I have a original zip some where too.   
      
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