Re: 8 bit shrinkit question

["Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net>]

Mark, I am the source of those Eamon files on ground, and they were
generated on a //e, so I doubt that the original file has a fork on it.
There must be a Mac in your mix somewhere.

What I wonder about is the file itself: there has never been a file named
EamonMaster.shk in that directory. The name of the Eamon Master disk is
eamon.001.shk. Eamon #1 contains the character generator and the Main Hall
adventure launcher and character storage as well as "The Beginners Cave," a
very, very simple Eamon.

To answer your other question, the Master is nominally required to launch
Eamon adventures, but many Eamons will run without it. If there is a program
named FRESH.MEAT in the download, it will run as-is. Also, while the
"correct" way to run Eamon is by generating a new character and launching
from the Main Hall, there is a utility named FRESH.SAM which will launch any
Eamon adventure with a medium-strong character named Sam.

If you are new at Eamon, I would like to recommend my own Eamon #124 as one
of medium difficulty that goes far in demonstarting what Eamon is capable
of. You will also seldom go wrong with such authors as Sam Ruby, Pat Hurst,
John Nelson, and Roger Pender, especially Sam Ruby's later works.

Having said all that, are you aware that I sell an Eamon CD? It has some 220
MB of material (much of it compressed,) including a full set of native and
emulator Eamons, 17 years of newsletters, utilities, maps, and much much
more. The newsletters contains reviews of all of the Eamons, ratings, lists
and indexes, how-to's, cheats, walkthroughs, etc. Lots of stuff on this CD
isn't available anywhere else, unless some CD purchaser has made it
available. IMHO the newsletters alone are must-haves, for the reviews,
cheats, and walkthroughs. Eamons vary widely in quality, with the best ones
about 100 times better than the least ones.

The CD price is a break-even $3.00.

Tom Zuchowski, former editor
Eamon Adventurer's Guild


"Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au> wrote in message
news:3aa9f597$1@news.iprimus.com.au...
> Jim,
>
> >I am surprised that an Eamon archive has a forked file since requiring
one
> >would limit the game to a GS. Which file is it?
>
>
> I'm surprised too, I thought that having to have a IIGS to convert it
would
> make it even more difficult for A][ only owners.
> Either I've got my files mixed up or someone is playing a Jedi mind trick
> with me. The file is EamonMaster.shk, however after re-visiting the ground
> site, I could not find it.
> I assume (yea I know "ass u me") that the Eamon Master was required to run
> all the other's, is that right ?
>
> After getting the forked file error, I also tried another one of the
files,
> with the same results. Yep you guessed it, that file isn't on ground
anymore
> either.
>
> Mark
>
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