Posted By
Dunric
on 2004-09-15
20:15:09
|  Longshot guess, but here goes...
I sent this to Maurice Randall of Centsible Software,
but also wanted to post it on Commodore Plus/4 World to
see if this makes sense/rings a bell with anyone else:
Around 1996 or so, I sold about 50 disks to Games
Plus/Flashback in Phoenix, Arizona (some were blank,
others were games/utilities that I wrote). The owner
of the store was Renny Mitchell, a nice fellow with a
son named James.
On one of those disks that I sold them, I may have
accidentally included one of my adventure games that
was left in the disk holder by mistake. Since I no
longer have a copy of that disk (long story, but
save-with-replace ruined my only backup copy a few
years ago), I was wondering if perhaps Renny or James
sold some of their Commodore inventory to either your
company or Ryan Merlancia.
I was never able to get in contact with Ryan, and
thought perhaps Games Plus sold some of their
Commodore inventory to Centsible Software in the late
1990s (when Flashback/Games Plus, at least at 45th
street and Arcadia Crossing, changed their
name/business).
I know it is like searching for a needle in a
haystack, but I was wondering if perhaps you might be
able to look through your older Commodore 64/128 disks
to see if any of my older disks might be there? They
would certainly have the name of "Paul" on them
somewhere (Paul being my first name, of course). Some
of the disks were fairly old and not in good shape.
Anyways, thanks for helping me. 
P.S. Many of the disks were: Maxell, Fuji Film
(color-coded variety), D. Dalton's "Software ETC." and
Memorex. Some of the disks might have "Paul's Disk"
written on them, or the really old "Paul, Inc." on
them (I was around 12 in 1988, and some of the disks
were genuinely that old).
Sincerely,
Paul Panks
dunric@yahoo.com
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Posted By
JamesC
on 2004-09-15
21:40:11
| Re: Longshot guess, but here goes...
1) Maurice Randall is owner of Commodore Key (www.cmdrkey.com), not Centsible Software (www.centsible.com).
2) Censtsible has been dumping large quantities of miscellaneous unmarked disks, as well as marked commercial disks without packaging or instructions, on Ebay.com as "recycled or recyclable" disks. If Centsible had acquired your disks, they're probably in the "miscellaneous" pile if not already sold.
3) Merlancia was a scam operation, as documented in threads in comp.sys.cbm.
4) Once again, the topic has NOTHING to do with the Plus/4 or C16, as at the time you were not running one of those computers -- you were on the 64/128 systems.
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