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    From Tavis Ormandy@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 18 22:35:28 2021
    I remember playing an elite-clone called U.I.M. on Archimedes when I was
    a kid, but never finished it. It was a hard game, I remember the manual
    even taunted the player - it said something like "send us a photo of
    the end screen and you'll get a certificate.".

    It turns out it's also a really rare gam. I would really like to see
    that stupid end screen though! I had an alert on eBay for years and
    years, but it never showed up....until recently. I thought for sure I'd
    get it...who the hell wants a copy of U.I.M.?

    I was wrong, the price went way higher than I was expecting, and I got
    sniped. I guess I underestimated how much vintage game collectors are
    willing to spend, I had no idea!

    I guess I'll have to wait for someone to upload a copy to archive.org!

    Tavis.

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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to Tavis Ormandy on Tue Jan 19 14:47:59 2021
    Tavis Ormandy <taviso@gmail.com> wrote:
    I guess I'll have to wait for someone to upload a copy to archive.org!

    The Archimedes Software Preservation Project has a copy: https://forums.jaspp.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=103&p=751&hilit=uim#p751

    Publisher The Fourth Dimension is still operating (as a brand of dealer CJE Micros) so seems plausible there would be a route to releasing it.

    Perhaps worth asking on the JASPP forum what the status is?

    Theo

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  • From Tavis Ormandy@21:1/5 to Theo on Thu Jan 21 15:14:03 2021
    On 2021-01-19, Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
    Tavis Ormandy <taviso@gmail.com> wrote:
    I guess I'll have to wait for someone to upload a copy to archive.org!

    The Archimedes Software Preservation Project has a copy: https://forums.jaspp.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=103&p=751&hilit=uim#p751

    Publisher The Fourth Dimension is still operating (as a brand of dealer CJE Micros) so seems plausible there would be a route to releasing it.

    Perhaps worth asking on the JASPP forum what the status is?


    Thanks, I'll do that, couldn't hurt to let them know there's interest!

    Tavis.

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