Re: A New Game for the GS!

[jeffr@bmerha2a.bnr.ca (Jeffrey Robertson)]

>I do. My name is Richard King - you will observe that this is the same
>name as is in the header of the binary to which you object in such an
>impertinent fashion. The program is a Game, defined as a means of
>amusement or play, and it is New: that means is is not someone else's
>work, previously seen elsewhere.
> 
>This is sufficient in both attribution and description for any reasonable
>person - those who wish to know more can unbinscii it and unshrink it,
>and they will find both a full description of the game and complete
>details of the author (namely, ME!) in the program. If you were a
>reasonably intelligent person, you might infer that the author of a new
>game is quite likely to be the same person as the uploader of it.

This is rich.  The above arguement is just barely valid for something like
"New Spreadsheet for IIgs".  But a "Game"?  The variety is incredible.
Is it a text adventure?  An arcade game?  3D Chess?

Not only am I a "reasonably intelligent person", but I'm also a terribly
busy one.  I don't have time to waste grabbing a text adventure (no
matter how fresh and new it is) and unbinscii'ing and unshrinking it 
just so I can find out it's a waste of space.

If you a so violently opposed to putting a word of text in a binary
group, try a post in comp.sys.apple2.  Works wonders.

Shaking my head and going back to work...
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