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There really isn't anything like the complete episodes of Small Wonder available online. You simply can't beat the internet.

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Go Canucks Go !!

What's interesting, is that Fisher Stevens, the guy who played Ben Jabituya, is not Indian. He's totally pulling an Apu for that role. He's actually from Evanston, IL, but now lives in NYC. Anyway, I think the reason I'm posting this is that it was a shocking realization to me a few years ago to find that out, so fooled was I as a kid watching Short Circuit.

Oh yeah, and Stevens was in Hackers and Super Mario Bros. And he dated Michelle Pfeiffer.

No Will! You don't know of the powers that you're messing with. Mixing robots and humans in a television show resulted in the worst sitcom that man has ever created: Small Wonder! Run for your lives!

sorry, couldnt find a page which had all the optional answers... anybody?

It is. Here is the scoop on how Sierra was sold, then castrated and left pretty much useless (FYI, Half-Life was produced by Valve, Sierra is a distributor).

Also here Leisure Suit Larry's man Al Lowe gives hints that managements talks of old Sierra's rebirth are just that - talks:

• "Feb. 1, 2002, I met with [Sierra's president] Mike Ryder in his office. He said he was interested in "reviving the franchises that made Sierra," including Larry. I was ready, but skeptical. There were many details to consider. We agreed to work via email that week and get together again soon.

  After hearing nothing from him for the next month, I emailed him to see what had happened. It took him a month to email back that he was really busy and would get to me soon. More than four months have passed since that email and I've still heard nothing more from him."

This is how the company treats one of its most successful game creators; you can figure out the rest.

Andrius

P.S. While we're on Al Lowe, his CyberJoke 3000 jokes mailing list is highly recommended. See archives.

Get a fscking clue, weasel-brain.

can touch Hammerhead.. he rules too much to believe.

My buddy had an AT-AT ( link 1,
link 2,
link 3,
link 4 )and we massacred that thing.. took the head apart so we could get at the electronics and mess with 'em.. we were about 8.. it always kind of walked funny after that..

Here's some posts as to why AT-AT's are 'retarded'.

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These games are among a plethora of unfinished adventures, to name a few: [...] Leisure Suit Larry 8...

Leisure Suit Larry! Who can guess why this game was canceled? Give this a try.

More information about small wonder can be located here

Here's a whole website about Small Wonder!

In Rome, Mozart attended a performance of the celebrated nine-part Miserere by Antonio Allegri which could be heard only in Rome during Holy Week performed by the papal choir. By papal decree, it was forbidden to sing the work elsewhere, and its only existing copy was strongly guarded by the papal choir. Any attempt to copy the piece or reproduce it in any form was punishable by excommunication. Mozart, however, had heard the work only once when, returning home, he reproduced it in its entirety upon paper.

There's a .jpeg of the box cover for Softporn at this website.

Al Lowe confirms that Roberta Williams is one of the women in the hot tub, in Chapter 2 of the The Official Book of Leisure Suit Larry.

There's a .jpeg of the box cover for Softporn at this website.

Al Lowe confirms that Roberta Williams is one of the women in the hot tub, in Chapter 2 of the The Official Book of Leisure Suit Larry.

"First, humankind didn't want to give up that Earth was the center of the universe. Then, we gave up that we were different from animals," Brooks explained. "But to give up the idea that machines can take on higher-level thinking ... it's a descent into being little complex machines, giving up that specialness we think we have."

I think that I can fairly conclude that Brooks thinks we are machines. He goes on and describes his dualism between his life and his science, so we should modify my conclusion with the modifier "as a scientist".

I dealt with this a bit in another thread. Treating it from another angle, let us consider a definitional issue. I consider that machines are embodiment of a formal axomatic system and so have that limitation as compared to the demonstrated ability of our species to discover new valid universal laws, which represent elements of a new axomatic system. Brooks thinks his machines are successful if they have emotions such as fear and can think. I will give him and you a supersmart baboon machine. Maybe we should fear that, but I am more concerned about the thought that treats mankind as supersmart baboons.

I think Brooks is essentially an engineer. This is my version of the content-free criticism. But engineers often go out ahead of science and still succeed. It seems to me that if he thought in my terms, he could be said to be planning to avoid the mystery of the ability to discover universal laws by creating it in a mysterious way. And since he is trying to emulate aspects of what is presumed to be the processes by which we as a species developed this ability, I cannot rule out the possiblity that this line of inquiry will "luck out".

Still, although you win on the possiblity, your argument is almost the inevitibility, and is based on the non-distinction of animals and humans. Tbus a baboon with a population potential of a few tens of millions seems indistinguishable from a species who has a population potention of about 15 billion with current tech, and which can change the way it makes its living without changing its DNA. Your argument is common in the AI field, and in the sociobiology area, but is specifically what I am polemicizing against. In the detail of the question of human-like machines, the content-free nature of the Brooks program provides little basis for argument one way or another. Like any cut and try method, it will work or not. But the specs are not that of a being who can discover new universal laws, so you probably will not get that. And that is what makes us a very successful species.

It's kinda hard to feel sorry for Sierra, seeing that they responded to the low sales of adventure games with mass layoffs.
But well, I guess the ship can't sail when the captain is a retard, and throwing some crew overboard always solves the problem.
There are still successful adventure games out there. Planescape: Torment, for one. I know, it's actually an AD&D game, but the storyline is so captivating that you can't let it go.
It's got what most adventure games lack: replay value. The thing is, once you finish an adventure game, you've just got a pretty box that cost you tens of dollars. It makes you feel stupid, and noone wants to feel stupid. It also encourages piracy, which again hurts sales.
How long does it take to finish an adventure game? 10 hours? 40 hours?
How long can you enjoy a well-executed FPS? How many manhours, worldwide, are spent playing Half-Life per day?
The point is, that if you want 10 hours of creative storytelling, you just go and buy a book for less than ten dollars.

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Now, if I could just get game ROMs for the emulators :(.

I say we blame Canada!

hmmm... Though, it could be aliens behind it. They're always up to no good. Green little buggers.

There are lots of TI emulators, though not as many as there are for other platforms. A place to start looking for anything TI-related is at http://99er.hispeed.com. There's also TI-99/4A support in the multi-emulator MESS, at http://mess.emuverse.com.

You do need the system ROMs to run the emulator and the cartridge ROMs to play the games. There's PC software to do the dumps, and I'm sure that somewhere out there you can find already-dumped ROMS, but I have no idea where.