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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:40:05 -0400
From: Howard Shubs <hshubs@eff.org>
Subject: Cap'n Magneto (by request)
I got a request for this, so I'm sending it.
Cap'n Magneto is an OLD Macintosh game by Al Evans. It was written
when the Mac Plus was still the top of the (Mac) heap, MacinTalk
worked, and Inside Macintosh had no more than 4 volumes! Gods. That
there were such days is almost beyond imagining.
Anyway, Cap'n Magneto is a graphical adventure-type game where you
wander around, eat apple, influence people (by killing them, etc),
rob robots, suck up to Smiley faces (or is it the other way around?),
and in general just have a heck of a time.
This is aggressive shareware, from what I remember. It interrupts
the game occasionally to try to get you to send away some money.
Of course, I have no idea if Al Evans is still around. For all I
know he could be dead. So it might not be -possible- to send money
in now. Hey Al, say something! Do you exist? If not, should they
send the money to me? Hey, I -saved- a copy, right? <grin>
I archived this game back in 1988, so it's in a Stuffit 1.5.1 archive.
I just tried running it on my 4MB Macintosh SE running System 7.0up,
and it seemed to run. I could tell it was a little upset at the
beginning, but it ran for about 5 minutes w/o crashing, and I only
got killed twice. Oh, and made a save file which restored just fine.
I have no idea what other machines this game will run on. I expect
that owners of the 128K, 512K, 512Ke, and Plus already have copies of
this game. If they don't, they should. It -should- run on those
machines. Macintosh II series? LC series? Quadra? Heck, anything
with a different screen than the original Macs is questionable. Try
it and get back to me. I'll make a list of what it works on, and with
what system software.
One thing I can say for this game, and Dungeon of Doom, is that I blew
a lot of time in college on these things, so Freshbeings Beware!!!
sent by Howard Shubs (the Denim Adept) hshubs@eff.org