Re: ANN: GShisen.Review, game patch, etc.

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Sheldon Simms writes ...
> 
> In article <367C4FC1.F6229542@swbell.net>, rubywand@swbell.net wrote:
> 
> > Sheldon Simms writes ...
> > >
> > > In article <19981219033908.24196.00001825@ng-fi1.aol.com>,
> > > cturley2@aol.com (Cturley2) wrote:
> > >
> > > > You can download a 'game fix' patch for the GShisen Hall of Fame prompts
> > > > from the Asimov-GS archive at ...
> > > >
> > > > ftp://apple.cabi.net/pub/applegs/Games/GShisen.stuff/
> > >
> > > You mean you don't like having "1WSW SUCKS" as the default high
> > > score name? Awwwwwww....
> >
> >
> > LOL- Well, it did seem to fall a bit short on the compliments scale.
> > With all the other "Thanks to", etc. defaults, a much better fit is
> > "1WSW RULES".
> 
> Well there you have a lack of factual correctness, so that doesn't work.
 ....

    "Rules" is somewhat overly exuberant; but, there is not room for "is
Cool", "does Good", "helps Apple II Users", ... .

     Of course, once the program goes to the bother of finding the
erroneous entry, it would be easy to change all of the prompts. Then,
there would be room for, let's see ..., up to an 18-letter phrase
without messing with pointers! However, it seemed best to just stick
with patching the error. 


     Still, now that you've focused upon GShisen's Name defaults, it
did, eventually get to be annoying having to type in a name each time or
settle for a hello message, platitude, or insult being saved in the Hall
of Fame. So, for my own copy of the game, I just used a block editor to
swap in ...

1WSW Rules
Lil Shep Hen & Ric   (to preserve hello's and mentions)
Ace of Tiles!
Tile Ripper!!
The Top Gun!!
GShisen Warrior
Apple II Forever
GShisen-Lover        (left this one alone)


     The game is more fun with neat entries like "GShisen Warrior" in
the Hall of Fame.



Rubywand