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The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder

lanceewing.github.io published 2024-05-229 min read

There is nothing unusual about the outside of these disks, but there is something unique about the data that is stored on them, something that Sierra On-Line would have been totally unaware of and certainly wouldn’t have wanted them to include.

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