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|   | Subject: Is my (dad's) original boxed H2G2 game worth something?
Posted May 4, 1999 by benjymous | | Post: 1
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...not that it's for sale, but I wondered if it is (or is ever likely to be) a collector's item
- the sort of thing that my grandchildren will take to the antiques roadshow.
It still has all the bits inside (peril-sensitive sunglasses, don't panic button, destruction
plans, fluff and microscopic space fleet (un-opened)) - however it is the Apricot version,
and I have never seen an Apricot, so have no idea whether the disk actually works!
|  | Subject: Is my (dad's) original boxed H2G2 game worth something?
Posted May 17, 1999 by Alex Egg
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I thought apricots were IBM compatibles. Or apples with big pips maybe. I bought the original game way back in '84, don't remember getting all those interesting bits with it though. Maybe it IS a collectors item!
| | Subject: Is my (dad's) original boxed H2G2 game worth something?
Posted May 17, 1999 by benjymous
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the apricots made recently were just wintel boxes, but they used to be their own platform
with their own os, as far as I can remember
| | Subject: Is my (dad's) original boxed H2G2 game worth something?
Posted May 23, 1999 by Fluke
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I also still have the original game with all of the novelty parts. In fact I recently wore the 'Don't Panic' button to a wedding. Rather apt I thought. I haven't opened the space fleet either... I didn't want my dog to eat them.
Well I have the Amstrad PCW version. It too is complete - apart from the Don't Panic badge which I wore and scratched a bit.
It is held together with blu-tak now.
| | Subject: Is my (dad's) original boxed H2G2 game worth something?
Posted Jul 16, 1999 by Bruce
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One of the really good things about the Infocom games is that they used a data file & an interpreter. The data files were the same for all platforms (I'm pretty sure) so all you need to run them is an interpreter for your current box & the data file.
The good news is that you can download an interpreter for just about anything from here -> http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/interp.html
They also have the a copy of the original Invisiclues so you can cheat a bit - > http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pete/Infocom/Invisiclues/hhgg/
The bad news is that you might have a little trouble if the original data file is on 5 1/4" disks.
;^)#
You say you might have some trouble if the original data files are on 5 1/4 inch disks.
Well my data files are on 3inch disks. The 3inch disks which used to go into Amstrad PCW's
Alex
| | Subject: Is my (dad's) original boxed H2G2 game worth something?
Posted Jul 17, 1999 by Bruce
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Ohhhhh dear - well they may be more valuable with that as a guarantee that the game has hardly ever been played.
Say Hi to your mum for me.
;^)#
| | Subject: Original Apricots
Posted Jul 26, 1999 by Sean
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If I recall, the original Apricot machines (long before the Mitsubishi purchase) were x86 machines that ran DOS - but *not* IBM clones.
They had sufficiently different hardware that meant Apricot licensed their own build of DOS from MS (or Digital Research - not sure), but sufficiently similar to make ports (like your H2G2 game) practicable..
They had some groovy features like infra-red keyboards with LCD function key labels 
| | Subject: Is my (dad's) original boxed H2G2 game worth something?
Posted Jan 10, 2000 by The Cow
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I wonder if we could get tdv to put h2g2 mark 1 in h2g2 mark 2? Im sure infocom wouldn't want much money...
| | Subject: Is my (dad's) original boxed H2G2 game worth something?
Posted Jan 11, 2000 by Anonymouse
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I wouldn't... One of the things I specifically asked for when I had my new (couple years ago) system built (and got plenty of the 'You're -insane-!' looks  for) was a 5.25 disk drive.
However.. I don't have the data file at all. 
|  | Subject: Is my (dad's) original boxed H2G2 game worth something?
Posted Jan 14, 2000 by Oscar
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like maniac mansion in day of the tentacle? lol
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