Re: Tell It Like It Is - Part 2

[bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major)]

In article <61m6qg$qmu$1@darla.visi.com>, nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:

> In article <bjblackbear-ya023680001010971426550001@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>,
> B.J. Major <bjblackbear@ibm.net> wrote:
> >--I don't know about anyone else on this group, but I for one would sure
> >like to know who the heck "Burger Bill" is and why a coverup name like this
> >would have to be used.  Didn't see any such person named thusly in the
> >"Tell It Like it Is" posts.....
> 
>    Now why do you have to be so suspicious of everything? You're
> seriously starting to sound like a paranoia freak.

I'm not suspicious; I honestly didn't know who it was or why he had to be
referred to in that way.  

> 
>    Just in case you haven't bothered playing games on the GS in
> quite some time or keeping up on programmers that you seem so intent
> on flaming, Burger Bill is the name Bill Heinemann goes by. Nothing
> of a "coverup" about it at all. [Eric Shepherd goes by 'sheppy'
> a lot].

First off, I haven't flamed anyone.  The response I made back to R. Bennett
was well deserved, considering his one sentence remark made to me that I
didn't comment on....And secondly, yes, I do occasionally have the time to
play games on the GS; most of my games are from its early days in the late
1980s, however, and I have only a few of the newer titles.  Thirdly, not
EVERYONE who is an Apple II user is familiar with the "big boys" of
programming like yourself or is on a first name basis with them.  There are
lots of us "just plain 'ol users" out here....

> 
>    Credits for Burger Bill include (among others I'm probably
> forgetting) Bards Tale for //e & GS, Battle Chess, Out of This World,
> Rescue Rover, and many console games. He's rumored to have done some
> SimCity variant for the GS, but licensing agreements (we programmers
> do have to abide by the laws, even as you seem to want to blow your
> nose all over them) prevented that without big bucks. 

That explains why I hadn't heard of him.  All the kinds of games I don't
care much for myself (I prefer older arcade style titles).  Thanks for the
info.  And, FYI, I abide by the laws too.

-- 
--bj
Apple Computer user since 1984
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