I have located Bryan Borich via LinkedIn.

He went through some tough times a while back. He may still have the drives somewhere, but he may not or may not be able to recover them.

I have pointed out that I have knowledge of a couple of folks on here who have the CD and I've asked him if he'd like to have someone here make that content available to him. I've also asked about the rights to distribute the material still.

I'll let you know what I find out.

Tom B

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 10:46 PM <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

I've pinged the email here and I found a Bryan Borich in San Diego on Linked In and pinged that individual in the hopes it is the right person. Will advise if anything interesting comes out of all this.

Tom B

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 7:14 AM Brett Kruger <xxxxxx@kruger.id.au> wrote:

Hi Tom,

 

1 & 2. I have a copy of the CD I downloaded for free from a website about a decade ago, which I can no longer find.

The Readme.txt file says:

---------------------------------

This CD-ROM contains materials sent or gathered over the years from Traveller Fans.

Most of it is provided with the permission of the authors. Where it might not have, hopefully the originator of the material won't mind a mistake on my part.

If someone donated some material for the CD and did not properly get acknowledged, please contact me (and please accept my apology in advance).

Hopefully this collection of material proves useful to other Traveller Fans. If it does, hopefully much improved versions will be available in the future.

 

Any suggestions or comments are welcome (and in fact encouraged).

 

Email address is:

xxxxxx@aol.com

 

Snail mail address is:

Bryan Borich

3890 50th street

San Diego, CA 92105-3005

 

                Sincerely,

                Bryan Borich

----------------------------------

The Copyright.txt file says:

 

FAR FUTURE ENTERPRISES

TRAVELLER is a registered trademark of FAR FUTURE ENTERPRISES. Far Future is the successor to Game Designers' Workshop, Inc for all TRAVELLER materials. Portions of this material are copyright (c) 1977-1998. All Rights Reserved.

 

JUDGES GUILD

JUDGES GUILD material is provided by permission. Portions of this material are copyright (c) 1978-1998.

    I own the registered trademarked name Judges Guild.  It is my intention to publish many of these products on the internet at my own website.  I hereby grant Bryan Borich the right to reprint any of the science fiction products of Judges Guild on a non-profit basis providing that any accidental or incidental profits will be reported to Robert E. Bledsaw residing at 1737 North Walnut Grove Avenue, Decatur, Illinois 62526 once per yearly quarter and further that said net profits before taxes shall shared with Robert E. Bledsaw to cover any legal or royalty expense incurred through the use of the registered trademarked name Traveller arising from this use.

 

GAMES WORKSHOP LIMITED

GAMES WORKSHOP LIMITED material is provided by permission. Portions of this material are copyright (c) 1980-1998.

 

MARISCHAL ADVENTURES

MARISCHAL ADVENTURES material is provided by permission. Portions of this material are copyright (c) 1980-1998.

 

DISCLAIMER

I claim no copyright On any of the materials (except those that state authorship by myself). Also, that works of unknown authorship are used without permission and such authors finding your works on the CD may remedy the situation by contacting Bryan Borich (email address: xxxxxx@aol.com. Postal Address: 3890 50th street San Diego, CA 92105-3005. USA).

 

COPYRIGHT

The material on this disk is Copyright by the various authors. Where no author is stated or provided the material is Copyright anonymous. The mailing list digests are provided by permission of the list members and hosts where possible. Material posted to the list remains copyright by the various posters.

   

THIS COMPILATION IS COPYRIGHT BRYAN BORICH & HIWG 1998.

----------------------------

3. I can review the contents but it might take a while as there are some 16,529 files/741 folder in a little over 445MB. No list of authors that I can find, seems to be only on individual files. I originally grabbed the CD image as it has quite a lot on Reaver’s Deep, which I was collecting at the time for my web site and games. There is an index file but it is a rather long text file. I’ll see if I can find time to condense it on the weekend.

 

I’m happy to make it available online somewhere if someone can confirm absolutely that it can be freely redistributable.

 

Cheers,

 

Brett.

 

From: xxxxxx@simplelists.com <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> On Behalf Of xxxxxx@gmail.com
Sent: Thursday, 3 September 2020 5:51 PM
To: The Traveller Mailing List <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
Subject: [TML] History of the Imperium Working Group CD/Files

 

 

HIWG used to have a CD link and I'm not sure if it was a free item in the latter days or still was a purchase before the site it was available on went away.

 

I've looked to try to find somewhere I could get more information about it (who might have it available if it were free, where I could buy it if not, and even who to talk to that might have the right to sell or give out a copy) to not much avail.

 

Among the TML members, does somebody have this body of work on file?

 

If so, here is my asking:

 

1. Can you tell me who owned the work on the CD and could distribute it? (assuming I could locate them and get in touch)

2. Was it free? Or was it always a paid product? If it was free, I'm assuming (maybe wrongly?) that it ought to be redistributable (maybe?).

 

3. If someone who has it could do a review of its contents (there's one for Jeff's Frontier Traveller magazine!), that would be helpful. I don't even have any sort of idea of formats, organization, or content involved (other than in the most 10,000 foot view sort). It'd be nice to have a better idea what was on the CD. It might be as simple as a file listing if the files were by topic or by discussion thread or whatever. Or maybe there's more to characterizing the contents...

 

I'm sorry I missed this when it was available to be had. I don't think I even heard about HIWG (as something open to the public) until quite late and didn't hear about the presence of the CD until it was no longer available.

 

Tom B

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