#monopo.arc
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Read about monopoly game in an old issue of Online. According to the article
in "uploads" it's supposed to reside in DL 5. Can't seem to find it. Does it
exist??
Sanford,
Parker Brothers (owner of the Monopoly Copyright) has requested that
the file be removed due to copyright violations. It seems that you can't use
the word 'Monopoly' in a game or the board play design or the game design
without their permission and no one had gotten their permission.
As a result, the game is no longer available.
Don
It probably refers to the old abasic monopoly game. Since few of us can still
run abasic (especially on the 500 and 2000), the program has probably been made
to disappear. We had talks of rewriting it many months ago, but I doubt
anything came of it.
Ron
Ron,
ABasiC works perfectly with the A2000. ABasiC may have some problems,
but incompatability with the OS changes has NOT been one of them. It's one of
the few programs that was properly written and thus has been able to survive
from 1.0 thru 1.2.
Don
Parker Bros. has sent letters to all of the commercial services and probably
about 10% of the BBSes threatening to sue anyone who has any version of
Monopoly or Risk for any computer system available for download. MONOPO.ARC
has been removed from the DLs.
Eek!! I must be a pirate! I *think* I got my copy off of one of the first Fish
disks (if not that, then one of the other sets of PD disks – a friend has a
bunch of such disks). I wouldn't lose any sleep over it though; the graphics is
nice for an ABasiC program, but I'm not impressed with the game play.