Author Topic: Jeopardy Deluxe Edition from 1994... (Read 8190 times)

Kevin Prather · « **on:** March 04, 2005, 09:35:40 PM »

I've googled and googled, but I can't find any abandonware sites that have a copy of the Jeopardy Deluxe computer game from '94. Does anyone know where I can get it?

parliboy · « **Reply #1 on:** March 04, 2005, 10:24:13 PM »

[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 4 2005, 09:35 PM\']I've googled and googled, but I can't find any abandonware sites that have a copy of the Jeopardy Deluxe computer game from '94. Does anyone know where I can get it?

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Stay with me while I remember the good ol' days.

Back in the early and mid-90's, there was a BBS (some of you remember those, right?) called the New Ware Club. Read into the name exactly what you think -- this was kind of a tier "B" outlet for all digital things illicit. Their modern usefulness pretty much has dried up today, but they continue to exist in a semi-frozen state -- including public Internet access via Wildcat 5.6

Anyway, if memory serves, one of the items in their archives is J! '94.

I'll leave it to you to figure out how to access it.

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #2 on:** March 04, 2005, 10:39:30 PM »

Ok, I went there and couldn't for the life of me find that item. Then again, I'm not very savvy with Talnet. I don't suppose there's another way?

Dbacksfan12 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 05, 2005, 03:07:05 AM »

[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 4 2005, 10:39 PM\']Ok, I went there and couldn't for the life of me find that item. Then again, I'm not very savvy with Talnet. I don't suppose there's another way?

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Well, if I can figure out away to zip up 2 floppy disks worth of information; I'll send it to ya; gratis; since my system won't handle it anymore.

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #4 on:** March 05, 2005, 03:18:53 AM »

Ah! Thank you, Modor! It's idiotwhoserman@gmail.com

Wait, you say your system won't handle it? How do you mean?

Dbacksfan12 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 05, 2005, 03:24:33 AM »

[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 5 2005, 03:18 AM\']Wait, you say your system won't handle it? How do you mean?
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I mean that my computer is too "new"; and won't run an old program that I believe ran under a 256 color platform. There's problem a way around this; I just dont know how.

I also have to find the disks.

clemon79 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 05, 2005, 04:51:28 AM »

[quote name=\'parliboy\' date=\'Mar 4 2005, 08:24 PM\']I'll leave it to you to figure out how to access it.

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That was VERY old skool. I enjoyed that thoroughly. Thanks for mentioning that.

wschmrdr · « **Reply #7 on:** March 05, 2005, 01:27:29 PM »

you don't by any chance access it by typing

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??

I still remember the old Jeopardy game I had with the Commodore. Those were the days.

aaron sica · « **Reply #8 on:** March 05, 2005, 01:45:42 PM »

[quote name=\'wschmrdr\' date=\'Mar 5 2005, 01:27 PM\']you don't by any chance access it by typing

LOAD"*",8,1

??

I still remember the old Jeopardy game I had with the Commodore. Those were the days.

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I remember when I first saw the "Sharedata" version of WoF in the summer of '87. Luckily my mom and dad bought it for me without much begging on my part (I was 12 1/2 and broke), and I think that night, I played the game for at least 3-4 hours on end.

That was the first of many game show computer games I had - Jeopardy! would follow in September, Feud for Christmas, and many others.

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #9 on:** March 05, 2005, 02:06:15 PM »

Yeah. I still have the Sharedata versions of WoF, J! and FF from '87 on my Tandy 1000 that I got for Christmas 1995. I once got $110,000 on the J! game. Considering it's under the old $100-500/$200-1000 dollar figures, I'd say that's a new one-day record. ;-) lol

aaron sica · « **Reply #10 on:** March 05, 2005, 02:34:19 PM »

[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 5 2005, 02:06 PM\']Yeah. I still have the Sharedata versions of WoF, J! and FF from '87 on my Tandy 1000 that I got for Christmas 1995. I once got $110,000 on the J! game. Considering it's under the old $100-500/$200-1000 dollar figures, I'd say that's a new one-day record. ;-) lol

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I wonder if Ken Jennings had any J! computer games when he was younger, did what you did and thought "Gee...if I ever get on the actual show, I could do this...."

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #11 on:** March 05, 2005, 03:38:03 PM »

lol, yeah.

btw: I searched through the Talnet files, and didn't find any jeopardy there. Any other ideas?

clemon79 · « **Reply #12 on:** March 05, 2005, 08:34:25 PM »

[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 5 2005, 01:38 PM\']lol, yeah.

btw: I searched through the Talnet files, and didn't find any jeopardy there. Any other ideas?

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Telnet. And it was there.

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #13 on:** March 06, 2005, 02:29:33 AM »

I found it, and I went through the methods to download it, and the darn thing went crazy on me. Dinging and scrolling, and it even closed itself up to a little box in the upper left-hand corner. What the heck is going wrong with it?

clemon79 · « **Reply #14 on:** March 06, 2005, 02:44:01 AM »

[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 6 2005, 12:29 AM\']I found it, and I went through the methods to download it, and the darn thing went crazy on me. Dinging and scrolling, and it even closed itself up to a little box in the upper left-hand corner. What the heck is going wrong with it?

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The heck is, you're still insisting on trying to run a fourteen year-old game on a modern OS. You're not gonna like what happens when you do that.

Unless you're referring to the download protocol, in which case I will point out that most Telnet apps, particularly modern, stripped down ones included with modern operating systems, do not have any support for dialup BBS-based transfer protocols like ZModem, YModem, or Kermit. (Hell, Kermit sucked when I was using it at San Jose State in 1992.)

Unless you are willing to dig up a full-blown terminal program that supports both Telnet AND the aforementioned file transfer protocols (as opposed to FTP), figure out to use it, and then find a copy of Windows 3.1 to stage a box with so you can run the damn thing once you get it, I will humbly suggest that this little operation is well out of your league.