Re: Pinball Contruction Set -- Wanted to buy!

[tyung@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (Tony Yung)]

Joe Kohn (joko@crl.com) wrote:
: In article <D644zr.1rB@freenet.buffalo.edu> av428@freenet.buffalo.edu 
: (Bruce Randall Baker) writes:

: >I believe the Pinball Construction Set is now in the public 
: >domain.  It is available at GEnie, I believe.

: No, it is not.

: As the person who met Bill Budge and hand carried all his disks that were 
: being released to The Lost Classic Project, I can guarantee you that 
: Pinball Construction Set was not one of those programs re-released as 
: freeware. Everything else Bill Budge wrote for the II, with the exception of 
: PCS and MouseDesk, was donated to the Lost Classic Project.

: Last I heard, Pinball Construction Set was still being sold as a 
: commercial product by Big Red Computer Club (1-402-379-4680).

Didn't they go out of business last December?

: When I met Bill Budge 2+ years ago, he was then updating PCS to run on 
: Sega machines. Since PCS, in one form or another, is still for sale 
: commercially, the rights for that program remain with Electronic Arts.

: Joe Kohn
: Publisher, Shareware Solutions II
:  
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I heard a little about this Lost Classic thing but what is the whole 
story?  Is it out?