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From: xeno@iastate.edu (Gary L Snethen)
Subject: Re: Portal by Activision...
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Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1993 18:51:59 GMT
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In <nbruin71.744868186@ursa> nbruin71@ursa.calvin.edu (Nathan Bruinooge) writes:

>What a fantastic game indeed!  well, story, mostly.  Does anyone have the
>original on IBM disks?  I heard a nasty  rumor that it can't even run on
>3.5" drives, though with my limited clues I can't see how that would be the
>case . . .

I have the original on IBM disks...  (three 5.25" I think)

I believe that it has on-disk copy protection, so I doubt it will run
as-is on 3.5" disks.

---Xeno
