Re: visi.com - NM - lies - slander

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 3 May 1998 04:25:30 GMT, pfg@cs.rmit.edu.au (Paul Francis Gilbert)
wrote:

>As for the ROM code bug, I'll have to definitely side against you here. 
>Despite the various claims and counterclaims made my impression of the whole 
>saga is this.... the team knew about the rom code bug at least a week
>beforehand, they didn't do shit about it, they didn't bother to tell anyone
>about it until bug reports started coming in. Therefore it's a bug in their
>game. Pure and simple. Not because of faulty code, but because it propogated
>a known OS bug through to the user when it could have been avoided.

They did not know about the but in the ROM code before the game was
released.  If Nathan did find the bug before the game was released, it
wasn't until an hour or two before but I'm pretty sure he didn't track
down the actual culprit to being in the ROM code until after the game
was released.  He'll have to let you know himself.

There was one tester who's machine would crash on exiting the game.
None of the other nine or ten testers experienced any problems.  As
Sheppy couldn't track down the reason that one tester's machine was
crashing, he figured the game was stable enough to release it.

After all, the game has been in the works for years and people were
starting to think it just wasn't going to happen.  I think it was a
nice Valentine's Day present.  Many people never experienced the
crash, myself included, and those that did only had to wait a week or
two for Nathan's new version of GUPP to fix it.  Pretty good turn
around if you ask me.

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