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My search for Rex Nebular continutes.  My first goal was to purchase the Logbook so I could get past the game's copy protection.  I wrote to Microprose and they told me it was $10.  I was not too happy about paying more for the manual than I did for the game, but I wanted it anyway.  I wrote a check and mailed in the order.  About 2 weeks later I got a package in the mail and opened it to find the manual for Rex Nebular.  I was initially very excited, but as was true when I first got the game, my excitement quickly went away.  The manual told me how to install the game, and did not contain the logbook.  I thought they were one in the same, until the copy protection screen asked me to turn to page 33 of the logbook, which would have been the back cover of the manual.  I wrote back to Microprose.  They said, "The logbook is a seperate book, available for $5."  <Grumble>  I ordered it, along with the hint book.  Those came about 3 weeks later in a much larger envelope.  I did get the Logbook, and it is very amusing, and also containst the copy protection words I need.  <YEAH!>  The hintbook was a let down, however.  It was not the actual hintbook, but a copy of it.  Every page was photocopied, with a big black border around each page (since the hintbook was not 8.5x11).  Oh well.  Knock a few more points off my satisfaction with Microprose, Inc.  But hey, they did make Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender, so that puts them higher than almost any other company anyway.  More story to come later.

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