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From: fbaker@nyx.cs.du.edu (fred baker)
Subject: Re: LTOI2 - Down with Activision!!!!
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Date: Sun, 12 Sep 93 15:51:40 GMT
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In article <26v0kq$3rf@apple.com> unknown@apple.com (Matt Ackeret) writes:
>In article <1993Sep12.061959.15724@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>,
>fred baker <fbaker@nyx.cs.du.edu> wrote:
>>I recognize that, as a IIGS user, you're probably used to having to make do
>>with user group sources instead of dealing with Activision themselves.  Thing
>
>	Oh get real.  A "user group" (that's really more of a mail order
>house nowadays) obtained the rights to do a GS version, from Activision. 
>The same exact documentation included in the Mac/IBM versions is included.
>There's no real difference.
>

There's really no need for you to get defensive about all this.  I have no
doubt that the version you'll be getting will have everything that the package
Activision sells does.

>>is, the Macintosh is still a viable platform, and my point was that I find it
>
>	Uhh, there are third party companies making new hardware and software
>addons for Apple IIs [8 bit ones too], and making money off of it. Get off your
>damn high horse. If you can't use ResEdit to make it work yourself, then
>it's a shame, and people are losing any technical ability whatsoever.
>

Am I supposed to be impressed?  I really could care less what cottage industry
produces for a machine that was, in my humble opinion, stillborn the day it was
introduced.  I've a friend in Longmont who's found himself working for one of
these companies.  It's a pity he makes so little he still can collect his
unemployment check.

The view's very nice up here, thank you. :)  And, your implication that I
cannot use a tool as fundamental as ResEdit it hilarious.  As an applications
developer, I had better know how to use it!

>>irritating that Activision couldn't provide a Mac version, even if all it came
>>in was a plain white paper envelope.
>
>	You can do it yourself...
>-- 

Once again, you've completely missed my point.  As long as I have to pay for
the privilege of playing an Infocom game, I don't WANT to have to kludge it
together in order to play it.  Do you understand?

I hate flamewars, and I'm not prolonging this one.

>unknown@apple.com		Apple II Forever
>unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu  These opinions are mine, not Apple's.

Fred
fbaker@nyx.cs.du.edu

