Re: Apple II - Monsters and Make Believe / Plus / Art Album?

[magnusfalkirk <dean.phares@gmail.com>]

On Jan 18, 5:34 pm, Alex Lee <ale...@mac.com> wrote:
> On Jan 18, 10:26 pm, za <zainana...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Jan 17, 11:20 pm, za <zainana...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Hey all- through the magic of the internets, I was just now able to
> > > track down a very hard to find game thanks to the wonderful community
> > > on here:
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> > >http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.apple2/browse_thread/thread/9...
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> > > Now, as I finish up this research, I'm still uncertain as to whether
> > > or not there were other versions of it.  The one I have is called
> > > Monsters and Make Believe 1.1.  I've seen some material that
> > > references a Monsters and Make Believe Plus and a Monsters and Make
> > > Believe Art Album, but am uncertain what the connection is and whether
> > > or not they existed.
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> > > Anyone here ever seen this or, even better, own them and could help me
> > > out??
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> > > Thanks so much everybody!!!
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> > Ok, a really friendly guy on here was able to send me a IIgs version
> > called M&MB Plus.  Thank you so much!  This really helped me narrow it
> > down.  So, the Plus version is very similar to the original IIe
> > version, with the addition of a few new backgrounds and shapes.  But,
> > here's the kicker, one of its backgrounds is much closer to the one I
> > remember on the IIe from my youth than the current IIe version I've
> > got (1.1).  Given these have almost the same graphics (i.e. it was
> > probably a simple port), I'm beginning to think that between 1.1 on
> > the IIe (called simply Monsters and Make Believe), and M&MB Plus on
> > the IIgs, there must have been another version on the IIe- basically a
> > bridge between the two -that had more of the graphics I'm seeing now
> > in Plus.
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> > So, if you have any disks for the IIe labeled M&MB 1.2 or Plus or
> > anything later than 1.1, please let me know!!  I've already found an
> > enormous amount of info thanks to you guys, and I can basically call
> > this wrapped.  But you know how it is- I would still really love to
> > find some in between version for the IIe if it exists.
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> > Thanks all!
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> Heya,
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> the version I gave you IS the IIe version - it's just on one 3.5"
> disk. If you have a 3.5" drive for a IIe, it should work fine from
> that. It's possible you could also run it from a hard drive or compact
> flash drive. Do you only have 5.25" disk drives available?
>
> - Alex

Any chance of uploading the 2mg image to Asimov or other sites so we
can all take a look at this version if we want to?

Dean