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Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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bch wrote: post #148
dylan604 wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did the company not have insurance?

Now I’m curious: what kinds of insurance would such a company have?

If you have the money for the premium, you can get just about any kind of coverage you want. There are coverage types that protect a company from an honest mistake ruining the company. While the payout may not be able to keep the company intact, it could at least keep from total collapse. Insurance to protect if you get sued for mistakes. These are not the types of things you worry about as an employee of bigCorp, but in a start up, you learn about these things quickly if you find good business advisors.

Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by smcl »

huhtenberg wrote: post #89

> The day has come and gone and I didn't get a happy birthday card from Disney with the Monkey Island IP tucked inside. Disney got the Monkey Island IP when they bought Lucas Arts. The first thing they did with it was to pull an excellent MI remake off the iOS Apple Store. The explanation was that it was diluting their Pirates of the Caribbean brand... which is clearly some Grade A bullshit. So I really doubt that Ro…

Never say never. Pirates of the Caribbean “brand” is on the wane - it’s pretty much driven by Johnny Depp whose stock is plummeting.

Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by kuon »

I really loved the Lucas Art point & clicks. I remember being stuck for hours in those games. Eventually, I finished most of them (or I remember I did, but maybe I didn't, honestly I don't remember).

I want to deeply thanks everyone who worked on those games. Thank you.

Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by mjevans »

bch wrote: post #148
dylan604 wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did the company not have insurance?

Now I’m curious: what kinds of insurance would such a company have?

I think I've heard of this in relation to housing contracts on TV (back when I watched stuff like Holmes on Homes).

Errors and Omissions insurance?

Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by bastijn »

> For the younger readers out there: These are not USB devices and you can't text your friends or watch TikTok videos on them. I know. Crazy.

Makes me remember this open day we organized a year or two back at work. We had some floppy disks laying around and this one kid pulled his dad's jacket and told him that we had 3D printed save icons here.

Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by oooooooooooow »

smcl wrote: post #152
huhtenberg wrote: post #89

> The day has come and gone and I didn't get a happy birthday card from Disney with the Monkey Island IP tucked inside. Disney got the Monkey Island IP when they bought Lucas Arts. The first thing they did with it was to pull an excellent MI remake off the iOS Apple Store. The explanation was that it was diluting their Pirates of the Caribbean brand... which is clearly some Grade A bullshit. So I really doubt that Ro…

Never say never. Pirates of the Caribbean “brand” is on the wane - it’s pretty much driven by Johnny Depp whose stock is plummeting.

Pardon the huge sidestep, but can you elaborate? Why is Depp's stock plummeting?

Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by laurentlb »

egypturnash wrote: post #79
joshstrange wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For the younger readers out there: These are not USB devices and you can't text your friends or watch TikTok videos on them. I know. Crazy. >> I know that this is a joke, but let's remember to be inclusive and kind to our younger readers and take the time to explain (reiterate even) what pieces of old tech are, and what they were used for. Expect it's not even funny, it's just super cringey and reeks of gatekeeping…

This attitude is why I never finished Thimbleweed Park, it’s full of “hey remember when it was the late eighties/early nineties, wasn’t it better then” jokes and it just wore the whole thing thin for me.

Thimbleweed Park has a setting to turn on/off the "annoying in-jokes". Maybe that could help?

(I personally enjoyed the jokes)

Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by BuildTheRobots »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #134
dylan604 wrote: post #122

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An actual SCSI device? And you're complaining about "by now". How old of hardware are you using? "By now" fixes are included in modern hardware on USB.

I have a number of Plextor CD-ROM drives that are more desirable than DVD-ROM for CD audio extraction. I have one USB Plextor but they command a high resale price. The point is that basic bus management should be sorted out and it clearly isn't.

> I have a number of Plextor CD-ROM drives that are more desirable than DVD-ROM for CD audio extraction

If you're pulling a digital bit-stream off a disk then why does the reader matter?

Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by mjg59 »

oooooooooooow wrote: post #156
smcl wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never say never. Pirates of the Caribbean “brand” is on the wane - it’s pretty much driven by Johnny Depp whose stock is plummeting.

Pardon the huge sidestep, but can you elaborate? Why is Depp's stock plummeting?

Because he assaulted his partner.

Re: Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

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Post by mjg59 »

BuildTheRobots wrote: post #158
kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a number of Plextor CD-ROM drives that are more desirable than DVD-ROM for CD audio extraction. I have one USB Plextor but they command a high resale price. The point is that basic bus management should be sorted out and it clearly isn't.

> I have a number of Plextor CD-ROM drives that are more desirable than DVD-ROM for CD audio extraction If you're pulling a digital bit-stream off a disk then why does the reader matter?

A lot of CDs aren't in perfect condition, either because of scratches or things like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc_bronzing. When faced with damaged data, the quality of the drive and its firmware will influence whether the data stream corresponds to the original content or not.
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