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Re: Classic Daleks 1.2



As long as we're looking into classic Mac games, I have a question
that I'm hoping some oldtimer will be able to answer.  There was a
game on the early Mac called Loderunner, from Broderbund, to which
I was _addicted_ in 1984-85.  My roommate owned an original 128k
Mac, and I was constantly begging him for Lode time.  As I recall
the game was copy-protected on a 400k disk, so access to an old,
uncracked copy is probably not going to do any good.  If Broderbund
is still selling a 12-year-old game, that would be wonderful, but
somehow I doubt it.

Anyway, my life as a nerd would be ultimately fulfilled if I could
get the original Loderunner up and running on my NeXTcube under
Executor.  (I have Kong and GoldDigger, NeXT-native games derived
from the Loderunner model with more bells and whistles, but they
just aren't the same...!)  Does anyone have any idea where I can
get a working copy that does not depend on being located on a disk
unreadable by modern hardware?  If you own it, I'll buy it.  If
it's crackware of some sort, I promise to write a literary gem of
a letter to Broderbund, with check enclosed, and charm them into
giving me a one-user license to run their old masterpiece on black
hardware.  I'm sure they'll get a chuckle out of it.

Any other ex-addicts out there who've found their fix?

What is the superlative |====================================================
of `so what'?           |  Joshua W. Burton   (847)677-3902   jburton@nwu.edu
     -- R. A. Lafferty  |====================================================


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