-=> Rassilon wrote to All <=-   
      
    Ra> Yah, I was looking up some appropriate (and different) door games that   
    Ra> I might possibly use & I remembered a great one that I used to play in   
    Ra> the 80's called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  Great game based   
    Ra> on the novels of Douglas Adams.   
      
    Ra> So, I go out looking for this, thinking by now it's gotta be freeware   
    Ra> by now & there HAD to have been someone who ported it to dos.   
      
    Ra> WRONG!   
      
    Ra> This game, written by Infocom in 1984 supports only:  Amiga, Amstrand   
    Ra> CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Browser (ok, a new modification),   
    Ra> Commodore 64, DOS, Mac, PC Booter, TI-99/4A, TRaSh-80, and TRaSh-80   
    Ra> CoCo.   
      
    Ra> So, seeing that the game is OLD to begin with and it only supports   
    Ra> operating s ystems that went out with prohibition, you'd think it'd be   
    Ra> cheap or even FREE....   
      
    Ra> WRONG!   
      
    Ra> They want $74 bucks for that damn thing!  I think back in the 80's I   
    Ra> paid like $10 to register my copy so that I had something better than   
    Ra> ZORK on my system.   
      
    I actually have an original copy of the game. It's not in great shape   
    though, and I no longer have a 5.25" drive with which to read it.   
      
      
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