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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Macuser 50 All-Time Best Shareware Programs
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Matthew Amster-Burton (mamster@u.washington.edu) wrote:
> In article <DvJHGv.52u@world.std.com>,  <tobyf@world.std.com> wrote:

> >>Recently I bought the current issue of Macuser, and found a small booklet
> >>included in the package entitled "50 All-Time Best Shareware Programs".
> >>Looking through it, I found Magnus Olsson's "Dungeons of Dunjin" and Andrew
> >>Plotkin's "System's Twilight" in the games section. Congratulations to them!

> (dunce cap on)  Hey, Plotkin wrote "System's Twilight?" 

Hi! Whenever I talk about my experience in Mac shareware, that's what I'm 
referring to.

> Legions of
> folks at college were addicted to that game.  Including, for a brief
> time, myself.

> Educational decay, thy name is Plotkin.

I have been accused of writing games solely to pull up my own grades. 
However, I didn't stop when I graduated. The theory is therefore not 
strongly supported. 

--Z

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