FASA/Gamelords CD-Rom!

[shield]

Got the disk and its fine. I have an old version of acrobat so the automated front end didn't work but I could still go in a read the individual PDF files.

Just a question out of curiosity.

What happened to the FASA magazines (Far Passage and High Passage) and I think there was another starport deckplans module for a research lab. Does FFE propose to issue these in a later CD or have they been lost in the depths of history?

Cheers
Richard

 

[DonM]

The other plans, and the Far Traveller magazine rights, all belong to Seeker, which is still in business, and (as of now) not interested in releasing the rights to Marc. Seeker also owns the Keith folio materials (the old Marischal Adventures releases).

High Passage magazine never was owned by FASA, just printed and distributed. It actually is owned by the members of the High Passage Group (HPG). I know that Marc has had discussions with them for future release.

 

[DonM]

Actually, the Judges Guild sectors were as well done as the CT GDW ones, and better still, were a 2x2 sector chunk.

I should point out that there are some JG items Marc actually likes, and had considered for Apocrypha I (which probably means we might see them in some future collection). The list includes Dra'k'ne Station, Starships & Spacecraft, The Astrogator's Chartbook, The Traveller Logbook, Fifty Starbases, and Navigator's Starcharts, as well a collection of Traveller-related articles from Pegasus magazine.

NOTE: that list might change, might never appear, might be completely wrong, etc.

I know that Marc even speculated about collecting old fanzines. I have to confess, I really want that. I find the fanzine material often much more fun than the canon official stuff. I'd love to have a CD of Traveller fanzines...

 

[Commander Truestar]

I should point out that there are some JG items Marc actually likes, and had considered for Apocrypha I (which probably means we might see them in some future collection). The list includes Dra'k'ne Station, Starships & Spacecraft, The Astrogator's Chartbook, The Traveller Logbook, Fifty Starbases, and Navigator's Starcharts, as well a collection of Traveller-related articles from Pegasus magazine.

NOTE: that list might change, might never appear, might be completely wrong, etc.

I know that Marc even speculated about collecting old fanzines. I have to confess, I really want that. I find the fanzine material often much more fun than the canon official stuff. I'd love to have a CD of Traveller fanzines...

I am with you on the Fanzines. A few of them like "The Imperial Staple" are 100% available on the internet and I have downloaded those in pdf form. Others I am still buying and making PDF's of myself for my own integrated use.

Marc

 

[Swiftbrook]

I am with you on the Fanzines. A few of them like "The Imperial Staple" are 100% available on the internet and I have downloaded those in pdf form. Others I am still buying and making PDF's of myself for my own integrated use.

Marc

If you have a link, please post. I for one am very interested in Fanzines as well. I wrote two but they never hit the press -- I don't know the business end and didn't know how to get permission for a piece of art I scanned from a TD magazine. The fun was in the creation anyway. I might post it here someday.

-Swiftbrook

 

[beowulf2044]

So I made a verified payment via Paypal on May 11th, and still have not received my CD. Who do I complain to?

 

[aramis]

Beowulf: the CD's come from Marc Miller dba Far Future Enterprises. Use the contact on his site.

I flagged your post to one of Marc's "worker-bees" to see about second route, as well.

 

[DonM]

So I made a verified payment via Paypal on May 11th, and still have not received my CD. Who do I complain to?

Beowulf... I'm one of Marc's "worker-bees" (heh...)

Anyway, please send an e-mail to me at don.mckinney@gmail.com, along with the e-mail e-mail you ordered the CD with...

I'll get Marc's attention and we'll get you taken care of.

 

[Gadrin]

The other plans, and the Far Traveller magazine rights, all belong to Seeker, which is still in business, and (as of now) not interested in releasing the rights to Marc. Seeker also owns the Keith folio materials (the old Marischal Adventures releases).

High Passage magazine never was owned by FASA, just printed and distributed. It actually is owned by the members of the High Passage Group (HPG). I know that Marc has had discussions with them for future release.

Apparently some of the Marischal Adventures were sold to the Space
Gamer mag, which is owned (or was passed to) Steve Jackson Games.
This is because the Adventure Flare Star is a freebie on the SJG site.
http://e23.sjgames.com/item.html?id=SJG37-1150.

The SJG pdf contains:
http://travellerbibliography.org/marischal/FlareStar.jpg
http://travellerbibliography.org/marischal/Storm.jpg
http://travellerbibliography.org/marischal/Periastron.jpg
http://travellerbibliography.org/marischal/Newcomers.jpg


I don't know the status of the other adventures in that series.

I asked on the SJG BBS and was referred to the Space Gamer
url they have there.

e23: GURPS Traveller: Flare Star
Flare Star originally appeared in four consecutive issues of Space Gamer magazine. 
It has also appeared in the Journal of the Traveller Aid Society online. ...
e23.sjgames.com/item.html?id=SJG37-1150

The company was founded in 1980. Steve Jackson did his first game design work 
for Metagaming. In 1980 he bought Space Gamer from Metagaming and went into 
business for himself. Three games and one set of Cardboard Heroes figures were 
released in late 1980. The new company really took off in 1981, when Car Wars 
hit the stores.

Too bad those others aren't SJG too. That'd be a nice treat to snap up
the remaining adventures in a classy SJG pdf.

>

 

[DonM]

Apparently some of the Marischal Adventures were sold to the Space
Gamer mag, which is owned (or was passed to) Steve Jackson Games.
This is because the Adventure Flare Star is a freebie on the SJG site.
http://e23.sjgames.com/item.html?id=SJG37-1150.

The SJG pdf contains:
http://travellerbibliography.org/marischal/FlareStar.jpg
http://travellerbibliography.org/marischal/Storm.jpg
http://travellerbibliography.org/marischal/Periastron.jpg
http://travellerbibliography.org/marischal/Newcomers.jpg


I don't know the status of the other adventures in that series.

Right... both Seeker and SJG appear to have print rights to the four part items. They first appeared in Space Gamer as adventures from the Keiths, and SJG has reprint rights. However, the Keith brothers also republished them in the folio format under their Marischal company, and those rights are currently held by Seeker.

 

[beowulf2044]

Thank you, Don. My e-mail is on the way.

 

[Starviking]

I am with you on the Fanzines. A few of them like "The Imperial Staple" are 100% available on the internet and I have downloaded those in pdf form. Others I am still buying and making PDF's of myself for my own integrated use.

Marc

Gis us a link man!

 

[bobo]

Man, the Sky Raiders trilogy and Ordeal by Eshaar were some of the best adventures I ran. These were cinematic in story and scope.

Over the years i have gamemastered, The Chamax Plague/Horde, The Sky Raiders trilogy and Uragyad'n of the Seven Pillars (Dune). Using Mega Traveller, GURPS Traveller and BRP.

 

[Swiftbrook]

It's been several months now. Are the currently shipping FASA CDs 'fixed' ?

Did the deckplans come out fine? I've read that you may need to stich together some pages to get the whole picture.

I've spotted the FASA material at RPG Now but they don't have a all-in-one bundle like the CD-ROM here. If they did, I'd probably buy it there as I can easily download an updated file as they're fixed.

-Swiftbrook

 

[ShapeShifter]

I doubt FFE will fix them. At most, we may hope for a PDF of addenda et corrigenda, like that which was recently provided for the CT CD-ROM.

 

[Vargas]

I just got my copy today and have a quick question. It's noted in a number of places that errors in the original material have been corrected. What were the nature of these errors? (And if this has been answered before please excuse me )

 

[DonM]

I asked Marc, and he said:

"In most cases (as I remember), the original text had minor typographical errors, or minor format issues which were changed or corrected in the process of scanning. In some cases, on the deck plans, some reformat or relocation on the page was done."

Hope that answers the question.

 

[Vargas]

Yes it does, thanks.

 

[Theophilus]

I am with you on the Fanzines. A few of them like "The Imperial Staple" are 100% available on the internet and I have downloaded those in pdf form. Others I am still buying and making PDF's of myself for my own integrated use.

Marc

Again, I'll ask, where is Imperial Staple available for download? can you provide a link?

 

[ShapeShifter]

Again, I'll ask, where is Imperial Staple available for download? can you provide a link?

I second that!