I'm trying to use Google Groups to search through old (1980's) Usenet posts for a game called Phantasia. To be specific, the earliest post where the game was released. But I'm having issues. For example, here is a result in the 80's sorted by r... but when I click sort by date it returns no results?
The game author is Edward Estes but it lists 6 posts from July there and when you click the link, nothing comes up.
Earliest possible, so I can research the history of it. I found a site saying it was made in 1986, but clearly that's wrong and I'm trying to track down correct info.
I see that post you found has a different user profile for the author. It shows him making 11 posts in Aug '83, but again clicking that link brings up nothing. :/
Google Groups' search by date support isn't working properly, and profile links typically don't work either.
I had a quick look around, but can't find anything earlier than what Lyanic linked to. Wikipedia requires secondary sources, so technically you can't use a primary source, but I doubt anyone's going to contest it.
Google Groups' search by date support isn't working properly, and profile links typically don't work either.
Not only that, I was banned for being a bot. It seems that clicking next page too regularly while searching through pages of posts will cause you to be identified as a bot. The ban lasted at least a day. I spent some time looking for an alternative usenet archive, but had no luck.
The game author is Edward Estes but it lists 6 posts from July there and when you click the link, nothing comes up.
The earliest release I can find is this, but clearly not the first release:
http://groups.google.com/group/net.sourc...