... that ... archive ... that didn't ... as ... corrupted ... I wrote several others that never made it onto the "official" site due to Holt's strange banning...
... updated ... It's never updated particularly well now. In fact it never has been. Even before Holt went mad and started banning people at the drop of a hat,...
... why I set ... A Brummie, a semi-Brummie, Leigh from Tamworth and myself from Leicestershire. What is it about The Midlands (which I have always considered...
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Paul Mason
panurge@...
Nov 1, 2003 10:26 am
Simon Osborne wrote on Nov 1: " A Brummie, a semi-Brummie, Leigh from Tamworth and myself from " Leicestershire. Tamworth counts as 'semi-Brummie' by my...
... Sutton ... Me too. :) But I was probably born a little later... Maybe it's the fact that central Birmingham is Mordor and Moseley Bog is the Shire that...
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Per Jorner
pel@...
Nov 1, 2003 1:27 pm
... not ... It's difficult to tell in Word/Windows. The font list shows "Monotype" or "MT" for some fonts, but relatively few, and Garamond is not one of them....
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Per Jorner
pel@...
Nov 1, 2003 1:27 pm
From: "David Whyld" <me@...> ... Thanks! You may want to send a copy to the list in case this is stuff that most people here won't have seen. Or...
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Paul Mason
panurge@...
Nov 1, 2003 1:49 pm
Per Jorner wrote on Nov 1: " > Garamond (actually I presume you're talking Monotype Garamond, which is " not " > by Garamond but by Jannon - how's that for...
... Excellent! A variety of home locations--and you managed to go from Down South to Up North without dallying in the mess in the middle. I salute you! ... -- ...
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Per Jorner
pel@...
Nov 1, 2003 5:50 pm
I just visited AFF, which has finally been updated. Only if you click on any of the new maps in the solutions section, none of them is there. Five days after...
... City, the ... the Grey ... Too bad the illustrator for the original artwork is still MIA. While i doubt he's everybodies favorite artist, it still would be...
... Got screenshots? :) Yes, the Garamonds-that-aren't-Garamond are confusing. The one I'm familiar with is ITC Garamond ('pon which the formerly-ubiquitous...
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Paul Mason
panurge@...
Nov 2, 2003 12:32 am
Matthew W. Miller wrote on Nov 2: " Got screenshots? :) Yes, the Garamonds-that-aren't-Garamond are " confusing. The one I'm familiar with is ITC Garamond...
Hi, Recently, I found a cheap copy of an interactive book titled ""Armor Attacks: The Tank Platoon", an interactive book by a U. S. army officer called John F....
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Paul Mason
panurge@...
Nov 2, 2003 1:09 am
Gavin Mitchell wrote on Nov 2: " I"m from Walsall. It.s the armpit of the Western world. There has to be an academic paper here on the curious connection...
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gamebooks@yahoogroups...
Nov 2, 2003 11:33 am
The following gamebooks poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: What´s your favourite Virtual Reality gamebook? CHOICES AND RESULTS -...
Adding those votes sent in via email, I ended up with the folllowing results: What´s your favourite Virtual Reality gamebook? First place.- Heart of Ice - 6...
... Coils was my 2nd favourite. Had I known it would get zilch I may have changed... ;)...
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Paul Mason
panurge@...
Nov 2, 2003 2:34 pm
vastariner wrote on Nov 2: " --- In gamebooks@yahoogroups.com, "Guillermo" <gparedes76@y...> wrote: " " Coils was my 2nd favourite. Had I known it would get...
... It's my favourite of the ones I've got so far, but in this kind of poll I don't like to vote unless I've read the whole series....
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Per Jorner
pel@...
Nov 2, 2003 3:04 pm
I'd better get this figured out before my eyes pop. If we want to chatter on about FF books, maybe we should take it to the new, devoted FF list. But then we...
... chatter ... list. ... not be ... said in ... may have ... refuge ... a ... well ... it ... Per: so far the method of "letting the people decide" has been...
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Per Jorner
pel@...
Nov 2, 2003 7:26 pm
... I'm all in favour of that philosophy. :) I'm not questioning the raison d'être of a dedicated FF list, I'm just trying to figure out where to post my...
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Robert_A_Mammone@...
Nov 2, 2003 10:58 pm
what about the Newsletters?!? (sobs pathetically before falling down) Hi In case anyone's interested . . . ... Woo-hoo!! -- Simon Osborne ICQ: 72644514...
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Per Jorner
pel@...
Nov 3, 2003 12:36 am
I went to a Swedish online bookstore to see if they had any Dave Morris books. The only available item that was interesting to me was Heart of Ice, which...
Per, I have read lots of different gamebook series (that´s why my tastes sound a little odd to many), and I can tell you in all confidence that Heart of Ice...
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Paul Mason
panurge@...
Nov 3, 2003 1:43 am
Per Jorner wrote on Nov 3: " I went to a Swedish online bookstore to see if they had any Dave Morris " books. The only available item that was interesting to...
So what do you think we start this thread with... hmmm... should I say the classic everybody loves to hate? The only Virtual Reality book that got no votes:...
