Posted By
MIK
on 2002-12-06
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Paper Boy.tap (tape) is the original version as released by Elite.
Paper Boy.prg is a crack of the original tape version.
Paper Boy_+.prg will not run on a 16k machine (because of the added picture and cruncher used). As Csabo said it is a crack of the original tape version.
If we were to do things correct only the TAP version would be available, but as in many cases the cracks have helped in a big way and took emultion to the point were we could use the originals. With out them we would'nt be here today 
It can be hard to draw the line in what to do. Paper Boy_+.prg is unique in its own way because it does indeed show us how many games where cut by the b*ll*x being limited to 16k and many of us had 60k to play with back then. And un-like most C64 cracks no one has tried to clam the fame for doing what they did to some one elses work.
It's a shame many of the games did'nt have neat loading screens because 16k did'nt take long to load did it... But I guess where the C64 could play some cool loading music the effort for adding a loading screen was justified (maybe).
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