***************** Fine Games for Players & Collectors ***************** ** now located at: 2078 Madrona St., North Bend, OR 97459-2143 USA *** ******* 541-756-4711 866-690-7879 M.Dean@FineGames.com ******** Update #2 13 June 1995 WELCOME to the second installment of the Fine Games electronic newsletter. These updates by email contain ONLY news and other info of interest to active gamers and collectors. They also explain how you can download copies of my many catalogs at your convenience. C O N T E N T S NEW Games ................ Newly released games Games TO BE RELEASED ..... Games to be released shortly Games GOING Out-of-Print.. Games known to be low in stock CARD Games ............... Yes, we have no Magic! OSPREY Books ............. Osprey Military Books @ 20% off FTP SITE INDEX ........... Fine Games' catalog now OnLine ! FTP Q & A ................ Problem-Shooting FTP problems Fine Games NEWS .......... What's going on at Fine Games N E W G A M E S A handful of the many games scheduled for release actually made it thru the gates. AH in particular seems especially constipated (and thus the delay in the release of this newsletter). Below are the games recently release FOR SURE: XTR Great War in Europe #33 List $33 net $23.10 Huge 2map, 1200 counter, 4 front game of WW1 at div lvl. Certain to be a collectors item. GMT Dictator module for Grt Btls J.Caesar List $16 net $11.20 Kit adding some tables & counters for btls of Vercelle (101BC) and Chaeronea (86BC). DecG Alamo, 2nd List $17 net $11.90 Essentially a reprint of earlier SPI title w/ updated counter & map graphics, but a hideous box cover. Mayf 1856 List $45 net $31.50 Long awaited RR game in the 1829 series, this one covers the Canadian Great Lakes area. AH Stonewall in the Valley List $35 net $24.50 Long, long awaited 4th volume in AH's civ war series. Covers the entire Shenandoah Campaign of Mar-Jun'62 in daily turns at reg/brig level. Can be linked w/ other games in series. AH ASL Annual Winter '95 [the '94 Annual!] List $20 net $14.00 (note, AH has scheduled a price increase to $26 very soon.) Hefty 98pg booklet dedicated to the tactics, strategy, scenarios, analysis of ASL. A must-have for ASL'ers. Gamr Yom Kippur List $29 net $20.30 Operational level game of War of Atonement, 1973. CoA Landships! List $36 net $25.20 Reprint of surprisingly popular, lo lvl tactical WWI game. 3W Several of the 3W games have now resurfaced after 3W's sale of these games. This includes Ancients & a few other choice titles. Call for more info. 3W Sword & Shield List $33 net $23.10 G A M E S P E N D I N G R E L E A S E A sizable number of long anticipated releases are somewhere just inside the door. These games may be out within the next month--by all rights they should be--but nothing is certain in the gaming industry. Prices are tentative until game released! AH Geronimo List $35 net $24.50 Stratregic level game of Indian resistence to the white invasion of the Great Plains with tribal rivalries to boot. AH ASL Solo (Chapter S) List $35 net $24.50 Solitaire rules for ASL. Hum?! AH New Acquire List $30 net $21.00 AH ads suggest the only real change is a downgrade of components and a price hike. Tiles will be made of cardboard. AH Global Survival, 2nd List $35 net $24.50 Multiplayer game of economic competition in these interesting times! AH Empire of the Rising Sun List $50 net $35.00 Anxiously awaited 3rd Reich in the Pacific. Due 8/95? AH Civilization PC List $60 net $42.00 DOS-based computer adaptation of Civ. Should be good. ColG Dixie: Bull Run, 2nd List $9 net $ 6.30 Reprint w/ minor corrections; box shows portrait. ColG EuroFront List $35 net $24.50 Covers the early periods of WW2 & links w/ other 3 Front series block game to form a grand WW2 game. ADG Ships in Flames List $30 net $21.00 Grand elaboration of the naval aspects of World in Flames. Does for navies what Planes in Flames did for air forces. CWJ World in Flames Annual '94 ['95] List $20 net $14.00 Working on AH's schedule, this is due for Origins release. GMT Crisis: Sinai 1973 List $36 net $25.20 GMT SPQR Module #1: War Elephant List $17 net $11.90 GRD For Whom the Bell Tolls List $65 net $45.50 Addtl shipping $ reqd due to weight. Prerelease copies are out and the word is VERY good on this game of the Spanish Civil War using the Europa system. MiH Piercing the Reich: Aachen 1944 List $35 net $24.50 G A M E S G O I N G O U T - O F - P R I N T Only a few games left the in-print list in the last 2 months. These games are now available only as used/out-of-print copies: CofA Command at Sea: Rising Sun due back 8/95 (I have once copy available at $35) CofA La Bataille Preussisch-Eylau CofA Mississippi Fortress CofA Marching thru Georgia Gamr Guderian's Blitzkrieg (I have 2 copies at $27.30) 3W Tarawa (going) 3W Blitzkrieg in the South (going) 3W Crimean Shield (going) 3W Run Silent Run Deep (going) C A R D G A M E S : Yes, We Have No Magic I'm sorry to disappoint the Magic lovers among you. Yet Fine Games will no longer attempt to stock Magic or other collectable card games such as Echelons of Fire/Fury. The problem is that demand so outstrips supply that orders must be placed months in advance to secure ANY supply. I'm not interested in speculating on card games. However, if you are interested in ordering Magic or other card games in BOX QUANTITIES and waiting the necessary 3+ months to receive your cards, I'll help you out with under my normal terms (30% off, etc.). O S P R E Y M I L I T A R Y B O O K S Fine Games now offers you any of the many books in Osprey's series at 20% off list. Shipping charges vary for 5+ books. A catalog of titles is available with any order or for a SSAE. It is also available on my FTP site (see below). Alternatively, you can refer to Osprey's own catalog. I need each book's title as well as its series ID and number. For example, the Normandy book is CAMP #1 Normandy. F T P S I T E I N D E X Here is an index to most of the files available at my FTP site on the internet. Use this to decide which file(s) you want to download, and to enter the correct name if using text-based FTP tools. ZIPPED CATALOG FILE SETS -- Use PKZip 2.04g to Unzip these. *********** ALL_Cats.zip 6/6/95 ALL 8 Catalogs currently available & readme Contains #1-8 below (~400k) All_4Cat.zip 6/6 ALL 4 Primary Catalog Documents & Readme (123k) Contains # 1,2,3,4 below OOP_2Cat.zip 6/6 2 Out-of-Print catalogs & Readme (107k) Contains # 2,3 below NEW_Gms.zip 6/6 New Game catalog (only) & Readme (12k) Contains # 1 below CONTENTS OF INDIVIDUAL FILES AVAILABLE ******************************* (Files #1 - 4 contain unique information; #5 - 8 show same info sorted or selected in different ways for your convenience.) #1 New_Gms.Txt 6/6 Text file listing 500 NEW games @ 30% off list (10k) #2 OoP_Gms.Txt 6/6 Text file listing of ~1,500 Out-of-Print/used by historical era. COMPLETE LISTING. (400k) #3 OoP_Mags.Txt 6/6 Text file listing OoP/used Mags w/ gms & games only (S&T, Wargamer, etc.) (34k) #4 Book_Cat.Txt 6/6 Text file of Osprey Military Books (new) priced at 20% off, by series & # (28k) #5 Software.Txt 6/6 Text file of PC Software Software & Hardware items (all DOS-based) (11k) #6 OoP_Publ.Txt 6/6 Text file of Out-of-Print games (as in #1) by Publisher, title. COMPLETE LISTING. (400k) #7 Fam_Sprt.Txt 6/6 Text file of family-oriented & sports games, including all 3M games, priced to move. (41k) #8 New_List.Txt 6/6 Text File of Newly Listed OoP/used games received since last list (Feb) - ~600 some games. By Publisher. (162k) #9 Intl_Shp.WK4 3/21 Lotus 1-2-3 v4.x & Excel v4.x format files Intl_Shp.xls explaining international shipping charges & a way to estimate them in advance. #10 Mag_Prc2.txt 6/7 Magazines-only Price List, in text, Mag_prc2.xls Excel 4.x & Lotus 4.x formats Mag_prc2.wk4 OoP_Gms1.txt 6/6 8 individual text files designed for on-line thru browsing or selective downloading. OoP_Gms8.txt #1 Accessories, Books, Ancient to Revolutionary War Era Games #2 Napoleonic & American Civil War Era Games #3 Other 19th Century & WW-I Games #4 WW-II Games, "A" to "F" #5 WW-II Games, "G" to "P" #6 WW-II Games, "Q" to "Z" #7 Post WW-II Hot Wars #8 Railroad, Other 20th Century, Multiple Era, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, & Family Games; Non-game Software & Hardware F T P Q U E S T I O N S & A N S W E R S The internet's FTP (file transfer protocol) is an EXTREMELY handy means of transferring files of any size or type between computer systems. You can use it to view and/or download current versions of my on-line catalogs at any time and with any type of computer. My site address is: ftp.FineGames.com My path is : /pub/vendors/finegms/ Simple text Index : .read_me.txt Distributing my catalogs in this manner is intended to make life easier, not harder. So if you have problems downloading my catalogs, let me know & I'll email you the set instead. I'm happy to attempt to solve FTP-related problems. But keep these points in mind especially when using any text-based FTP tools: * My FTP site, like most, is CASE SENSITIVE. Use lower case letters unless a directory listing shows the use of upper case letters. * Most FTP sites use a FORWARD slash ("/") rather than the backslash ("\") that DOS users are familiar with in path statements. * Signon via Anonymous FTP. That is, signon with an account name of "anonymous" and a password which is your actual, complete email address. * Use a BINARY TRANSFER mode when copying ZIPped files of any sort. You can use BINARY or ASCII transfers with TXT (text) files. * You must use the current version of PKZIP to UNZIP compressed files. The current version is 2.04g. Earlier versions probably won't work. WWW BROWSERS can access these files using the path given above. Just enter the URL "ftp://ftp.FineGames.com/pub/vendors/finegms/.read_me.txt" or another file name. Your browser should download the file for you. YOUR SUGGESTIONS influence the range of catalogs I make available here. I've added two new formats in response to earlier suggestions. If you'd like to see stuff listed in a way more useful to you, please let me know. Any comments, for better or worse, are welcome. N E W S My 800 NUMBER is available but has changed slightly. Call 866-690-7879 to place an order or reserve games. You must enter in the 1111 when requested. FAMILY-GAME / SPORTS GAME listing is available free upon request. (Also available at my FTP site, above.) This lists 200-some simpler 3M, AH and sports games. All are priced quite inexpensively. Call if interested. FATHERS DAY (printed) CATALOG was mailed free to all my customers last Saturday, the 10th. If you didn't get a copy, I'll mail one with any order or with a $2/issue subscription. This catalog lists just over 1,200 games, plus hundreds of magazines, for sale. Prices have been reduced nearly 10% overall as I need to clear some badly needed space. WARGAMER'S COLLECTORS GUIDE, 2nd and ZOCCHI'S SPI CHRONOLOGY are both available thru Fine Games. $8.40 and $4.20 respectively. FINE GAMES WEB SITE is being developed. I'd like to add some nice graphics to my WWW pages. So if you have any digitized game-related graphics in any DOS-based format please let me know. I will pay $ for those I use. Again, any comments you may have to improve the service I provide to you via this Update or in any other way are greatly appreciated.