Re: now on cco.caltech.edu and on c.b.a2 later today or tomorrow...

[mspaeth@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Wayne Gretzky)]

In article <C51Fp3.zs@news.iastate.edu> irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt) writes:
>In article <1pm8j5INNm79@gap.caltech.edu> dmz@cco.caltech.edu (Daniel Zimmerman) writes:
>>2. Bille Art contains some questionable pictures in locations without any kind
>>of warnings (ie: the Panic! button)... I will consider putting it on the site
>
>Its not really an FTP admin's job to be our moral guardian.  I really doubt
>that any ftp user's first exposure (pun intended) to nude women would be via
>Bille Art.  Are you also going to remove for example the FTA XMAS Demo because

There are no nude women in the demo!  The two from the info screen are just
sporting cleavage, and the panic button... well... THE WOMAN HAS NO NIPPLES!
Either she's partially covered, or some sort of mutant...

>if you enter FAG at the main menu it displays a homoerotic animation?  I'll

Glad I didn't find that easter egg...

>say it now: no, because the rest of the program is a great milestone in the
>IIgs.  I don't think your judgement of the quality of something is enough to
>warrant its removal; I consider a high percentage of the files on cco to be of
>'pathetic' quality.
>

There's a difference between normal pathetic and shooting a pool ball at a
colored spot on the bumpers...

>
>>for hard drives, or write a program to do so, that's fine, and I'll let that
>>stay. But the Dungeon Master files, for instance, on the HD Install Disk 1 
>>were over five HUNDRED ProDOS Blocks long! That much program code is not  
>>necessary for deprotection/HD installation under any circumstances. 
>
>Maybe so, but it does make it much simpler for your average non-technologically
>oriented user to deprotect something if all they need to do is drag a new file
>in the Finder.  Detailed patch instructions are usually quite technical and
>require a great deal of skill.  As I mentioned above, none of the files on HD
>Install will allow you to have a working copy of a game.
>

Sheesh! The program *may* (ok.. probably does) contain copyrighted code, but
I don't see any harm as long as it does not offer a working copy of any
of the games it can install...

..and how many were written by companies that are still in business and
might be able to sue anyway ;)

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