Additionally, the advent of an internet open to the general public heralded massive collected sets of files which CD makers happily mirrored and made available to the BBS market. While many of the CDs contain shareware programs, a number branched into music, graphics, animations and movies. For this market, CD makers would declare their CDs "BBS Ready", meaning an easily-readable directory of file descriptions was located on the CDs to be read by the BBS software.
Some computer bulletin board services would attach banks of CD-ROM drives to their machines to allow users to access the discs, allowing the system operators (SysOps) to claim the BBS had thousands of files available. As a result, many otherwise-lost pieces of computer history were gathered up in the trawling nets of these individuals and companies and were preserved for future generations. As material "ran out", that is, as sellers of these CDs found they were unable to easily find shareware programs and files, the hunt began to track down every last file and item that could make the quarterly or monthly quota. Initially containing less than the full capacity of the discs (600mb, later 700mb) these items eventually began brimming with any sort of computer data that could be packaged and sold. Too bad about the lack of tournament/career mode, but there is always QQP's Bridge Olympiad and Interplay's superb Bridge Deluxe II for that.One of the most historically important artifacts to come from the home computer telecommunications revolution was shareware CDs, compact discs put out by companies containing hundreds of megabytes of shareware. If you like bridge, you will definitely find Bridge Master to be one of the better programs. For beginners, the game includes well-written and concise on-line help, including full bridge rules, as well as a hint feature. Whether you want the computers to be aggressive, passive, and more prone to sacrificing trumps, you can set all these parameters and change them at any time during the game. While other games allow you to adjust difficulty level, Bridge Master lets you adjust playing style of your opponent. Although it is short on long-term play value, Bridge Master makes up for that shortcoming with excellent AI. The game is reminiscent of QQP's later Bridge Olympiad, except with fewer options and no tournament mode. Bridge Master is an excellent bridge game developed by Greenleaf, published by Capstone.
0 kommentar(er)
