Space Quest I & II

[Darth Mandarb]

Now before anybody blows up on me ... I own both these games.

I just recently found them in an old storage box and wanted to re-play them.  However, neither of them will work.  I think 15 years in storage just killed the disks (yeah, they're on 3" disks).

So here's what I'm asking ... does anybody have them?  And if so, would you be willing to e-mail them to me?  I really want to replay them.  They are small enough (file size) that emailing them is practical

I was able to find them on eBay, but don't really want to re-buy them (with no guarantee they're going to work anyway).  If anybody has them, and is willing, let me know in this thread and I'll give you my email address to use.

It's not illegal because I own them right?  If this IS illegal, allow me to apologize in advance.

[Elliott Hird]

It isn't legal technically, but nothing will come from it.

[Phemar]

I sent you a PM

[Joseph DiPerla]

http://www.agidev.com/projects/nagi/

Check that site out. Now you wont have to rebuy them or get them from e-mail.

[AGA]

NAGI is an interpreter, for which you need original copies of the game. I think what Darth is saying is that his copies are actually broken, that the data can't be accessed from the disk. You can play most AGI games in Windows acceptably without an interpreter anyway.

[Nikolas]

Technically I think that it is illegal.

Sadly I don't have anything to PM you about. But it seems that somebody already did

[Las Naranjas]

If you're really concerned, some people here have emailed Sierra, or whatever conglomerate it is now, and asked for permission to get copies in some form on the basis of a prior purchase.

Not that anything would come from the action anyway.

[Darth Mandarb]

Zor took care of my little problem   Thanks Zor!  I'm in nostalgic heaven!!

Yeah ... I own the game(s).  But the disks just won't read in the drive.  I tried and tried to no avail.  They have been sitting in a hot/humid attic in South Florida for over a decade.  I think they simply exceeded their shelf life.

[AGA]

People always claim that you're allowed to copy your game CDs for personal use only, so if that is true, I'm sure the same applies to floppies and their contents...

[MillsJROSS]

Vivendi owns the rights to the game now, I believe, and they probably aren't responsible for damaged disks that Sierra sold 15 years ago. But they are reselling the Sierra collections, starting December 1st, according to amazon. I'm not sure if they've decided to make the games more Windows friendly, but even if they don't I've been able to run all six games without too much difficulty.

-MillsJROSS

[LGM]

They were gonna release them all in April...

[Radiant]

People always claim that you're allowed to copy your game CDs for personal use only, so if that is true, I'm sure the same applies to floppies and their contents...

True in most jurisdictions, afaik. Some EULAs explicitly forbid it but it's not at all clear that that's actually legal in and of itself.

[Phemar]

Darth, no problem If you remember Enclosure it used the NAGI engine so I used to use those files to run the game, sorry for cluttering the folders with that crud.