Joe Siegler wrote in a message to Patrick Mccullough:
JS> Hello PATRICK.
JS> 08 Mar 98 03:14, PATRICK MCCULLOUGH wrote to JOE SIEGLER:
 >  Speaking of which... is it available for download off the web?
 >  My fileecho feed seems to have eaten it somehow.  The TIC came
 >  in, but no file.  Weird.
JS> Of course.  http://www.dopefish.com.  Surprised you had to ask.  :) 
 DOH!   Brainfreeze. 
 >  Amen, brother!
 >  And it's probably good reading for those who have hated the game, as
 >  they will learn how wrong they are.
JS> That's true.  There was an article around about the History of
JS> Deathmatch, and how ROTT pioneered several Deathmatch innovations
JS> that people thought Quake did.  I forget where that is, though.
 Since we're sorta on that subject... I poked through the various
 'info about ROTT' links on the 3DR page last night.  Geocities seems
 to have killed one of the sites (it's gone, anyway) and two of the
 others didn't respond.  Maybe network problems.  I hope.
 And the Maximum-Carnage site is kinda gone.  You'll have to see it.
 >  Tip for those who want to buy it: Office Depot has the Platinum 3D
 > Action game pack CD on sale for a mere $14.99, which contains _full_
 > versions of ROTT: Dark War, Terminal Velocity, and FormGen's F/A-18
JS> I'm curious to see how they handle the installs for each, as
JS> Terminal Velocity requires the install program to create a file in
JS> the user directory.  I know, I've handled *ALL* the installs for our
JS> company since Major Stryker in Jan 1993.
 And a helluva job you do, too!  The idea of putting the shareware games
 on the same CD -and having the installer capable of handling them.  I
 wish other software was managed so well.  Take a bow, Joe.  :)
 Anyway, here's how the Platinum pack is laid out:
 ACRODOS    -Acrobat versions of the manuals and the reader
 BK15FULL   -Black Knight F/A-18 files
 RECYCLED   -yes, this is a CD. :)  There's some sort of Win95 registry key
             in there.  As these are DOS games, I wonder why...
 RLEVELS    -20 ROTT levels
 ROTT       -ROTT's install directory, with the goodies sub-directory
 ROTT.BAT   -batch file to play ROTT off the CD
 ROTTCD     -contains another copy of Rott.bat and Rottcd.exe
 ROTTCD.EXE -Play off the CD? 
 ROTTINST   -all the ROTT files
 ROTTPLAY   -looks like a clone of the ROTTINST directory
 SHAREWAR   -the shareware versions
 SUPPORT    -screenshots of the game title screens.  Not much support there.
 TV         -contains the TV installer, a .wad file and preview of Duke3D
 TVINST     -the game itself, all 35 megs worth.
 TVPLANET   -extra TV planets
 So... installing TV brings up the Apogee installer, it asks for the drive
 and path to install the game and happily goes about doing just that.
 The game *is* on my HD, but it's playing the video files off the CD.
 Does that help?
 Thanks again!
 Patrick
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