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I've googled and googled, but I can't find any abandonware sites that have a copy of the Jeopardy Deluxe computer game from '94. Does anyone know where I can get it?
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 4 2005, 09:35 PM\']I've googled and googled, but I can't find any abandonware sites that have a copy of the Jeopardy Deluxe computer game from '94. Does anyone know where I can get it?
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Stay with me while I remember the good ol' days.
Back in the early and mid-90's, there was a BBS (some of you remember those, right?) called the New Ware Club. Read into the name exactly what you think -- this was kind of a tier "B" outlet for all digital things illicit. Their modern usefulness pretty much has dried up today, but they continue to exist in a semi-frozen state -- including public Internet access via Wildcat 5.6
Anyway, if memory serves, one of the items in their archives is J! '94.
I'll leave it to you to figure out how to access it.
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Ok, I went there and couldn't for the life of me find that item. Then again, I'm not very savvy with Talnet. I don't suppose there's another way?
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 4 2005, 10:39 PM\']Ok, I went there and couldn't for the life of me find that item. Then again, I'm not very savvy with Talnet. I don't suppose there's another way?
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Well, if I can figure out away to zip up 2 floppy disks worth of information; I'll send it to ya; gratis; since my system won't handle it anymore.
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Ah! Thank you, Modor! It's idiotwhoserman@gmail.com
Wait, you say your system won't handle it? How do you mean?
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 5 2005, 03:18 AM\']Wait, you say your system won't handle it? How do you mean?
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I mean that my computer is too "new"; and won't run an old program that I believe ran under a 256 color platform. There's problem a way around this; I just dont know how.
I also have to find the disks.
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[quote name=\'parliboy\' date=\'Mar 4 2005, 08:24 PM\']I'll leave it to you to figure out how to access it.
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That was VERY old skool. I enjoyed that thoroughly. Thanks for mentioning that.
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you don't by any chance access it by typing
LOAD"*",8,1
??
I still remember the old Jeopardy game I had with the Commodore. Those were the days.
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[quote name=\'wschmrdr\' date=\'Mar 5 2005, 01:27 PM\']you don't by any chance access it by typing
LOAD"*",8,1
??
I still remember the old Jeopardy game I had with the Commodore. Those were the days.
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I remember when I first saw the "Sharedata" version of WoF in the summer of '87. Luckily my mom and dad bought it for me without much begging on my part (I was 12 1/2 and broke), and I think that night, I played the game for at least 3-4 hours on end.
That was the first of many game show computer games I had - Jeopardy! would follow in September, Feud for Christmas, and many others.
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Yeah. I still have the Sharedata versions of WoF, J! and FF from '87 on my Tandy 1000 that I got for Christmas 1995. I once got $110,000 on the J! game. Considering it's under the old $100-500/$200-1000 dollar figures, I'd say that's a new one-day record. ;-) lol
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 5 2005, 02:06 PM\']Yeah. I still have the Sharedata versions of WoF, J! and FF from '87 on my Tandy 1000 that I got for Christmas 1995. I once got $110,000 on the J! game. Considering it's under the old $100-500/$200-1000 dollar figures, I'd say that's a new one-day record. ;-) lol
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I wonder if Ken Jennings had any J! computer games when he was younger, did what you did and thought "Gee...if I ever get on the actual show, I could do this...." :)
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lol, yeah.
btw: I searched through the Talnet files, and didn't find any jeopardy there. Any other ideas?
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 5 2005, 01:38 PM\']lol, yeah.
btw: I searched through the Talnet files, and didn't find any jeopardy there. Any other ideas?
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Telnet. And it was there.
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I found it, and I went through the methods to download it, and the darn thing went crazy on me. Dinging and scrolling, and it even closed itself up to a little box in the upper left-hand corner. What the heck is going wrong with it?
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 6 2005, 12:29 AM\']I found it, and I went through the methods to download it, and the darn thing went crazy on me. Dinging and scrolling, and it even closed itself up to a little box in the upper left-hand corner. What the heck is going wrong with it?
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The heck is, you're still insisting on trying to run a fourteen year-old game on a modern OS. You're not gonna like what happens when you do that.
Unless you're referring to the download protocol, in which case I will point out that most Telnet apps, particularly modern, stripped down ones included with modern operating systems, do not have any support for dialup BBS-based transfer protocols like ZModem, YModem, or Kermit. (Hell, Kermit sucked when I was using it at San Jose State in 1992.)
Unless you are willing to dig up a full-blown terminal program that supports both Telnet AND the aforementioned file transfer protocols (as opposed to FTP), figure out to use it, and then find a copy of Windows 3.1 to stage a box with so you can run the damn thing once you get it, I will humbly suggest that this little operation is well out of your league.
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Perhaps you're right.
Although if I could get a copy of the game through other means, perhaps email or something, could I put it on floppy discs and transfer it to my Tandy 1000 to play? Or does it need Windows to run?
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[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Mar 5 2005, 02:34 PM\']I wonder if Ken Jennings had any J! computer games when he was younger, did what you did and thought "Gee...if I ever get on the actual show, I could do this...." :)
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The Jennings clan did one better.
Ken, his father, and his brother Nathan, at one point, actually *programmed* their own Jeopardy game...
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 6 2005, 03:30 PM\']Perhaps you're right.
Although if I could get a copy of the game through other means, perhaps email or something, could I put it on floppy discs and transfer it to my Tandy 1000 to play? Or does it need Windows to run?
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You didn't read a damned word I said.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Mar 6 2005, 03:41 PM\'][quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 6 2005, 03:30 PM\']Perhaps you're right.
Although if I could get a copy of the game through other means, perhaps email or something, could I put it on floppy discs and transfer it to my Tandy 1000 to play? Or does it need Windows to run?
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You didn't read a damned word I said.
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I sure did. You said I will fail if I try to download the game through Telnet, and if I eventually do get the game, I will fail if I try to run the game on this computer. Unless you can prove that I misread your post, my question stands. I'll read it a few more times to make sure, but I'm pretty sure I understood every word you said.
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 6 2005, 09:01 PM\'][quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Mar 6 2005, 03:41 PM\']You didn't read a damned word I said.
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I sure did. You said I will fail if I try to download the game through Telnet, and if I eventually do get the game, I will fail if I try to run the game on this computer. Unless you can prove that I misread your post, my question stands.
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I quote from Chris's post (emphasis mine):
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Mar 6 2005, 02:44 AM\']Unless you are willing to dig up a full-blown terminal program that supports both Telnet AND the aforementioned file transfer protocols (as opposed to FTP), figure out to use it, and then find a copy of Windows 3.1 to stage a box with so you can run the damn thing once you get it, I will humbly suggest that this little operation is well out of your league.
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You then asked in the post immediately following his:
[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 6 2005, 05:30 PM\']Or does it need Windows to run?
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So yes, you misread his post.
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Ah, I missed that. Thank you, David.
Actually, I didn't miss it. I just questioned it because the previous Sharedata Jeopardy's didn't require Windows. At 1994, I thought perhaps it wouldn't be necessary. I'm probably wrong about that.
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There are plenty of emulators out there that can create a DOS/Windows 3x environment that old programs will happily run in. Check out DOS-box (http://\"http://dosbox.sourceforge.net\"). I don't think they provide an OS, though. Something like DR-DOS or another M$-DOS compatible system should get you going. You can probably find old copies of Windows 3x on the net if you look hard enough. O, if you can dig out an old Windows 95/98 CD and install it on this "virtual machine" it might work. I don't think I had any problems with Win 3x program compatibilty in Win 9x. Also, IRC is amazing for finding old stuff.
What made this version so "deluxe" in the first place? I got the 1993 DOS version (I think it had a blue box) for my birthday, and the screenshots looked the same as the deluxe version (red box?) that appeared a year later. Actually, was the only difference the ability to support modem play? I didn't have a modem then, so I didn't care ;-)
-Greg