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From: hale@fraud.uucp (Greg Hale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: A little late LOONG AppleFest review (can you say 'Leprechaun'?)
Summary: Yo! I'm Here!
Keywords: AppleFest, Macintosh, Mac, Games, Color
Message-ID: <18143@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 10 Oct 89 01:14:21 GMT
References: <9297@saturn.ucsc.edu>
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Reply-To: hale@fraud.UUCP (Greg Hale)
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In article <9297@saturn.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>
>     Before I went to AppleFest at all, I had planned on semi-politely
>complaining at companies that had Mac stuff at AppleFest as AppleFest was
>designed as an Apple // only show (Cambridge Marketing's just screwed up by
>letting it be Mac only), and there really wasn't TOO MUCH Mac stuff.. Yet today
>I got into a discussion with a guy who I thought was a salesman. He was at a
>Mac II demoing some admittedly neat-looking game called Leprechaun. I just
>mentioned that I thought Macs should stay out of AppleFest as THEY have
>MacWorld and MacFest and whatever other ones there are yet Apple //s only have
>the yearly Boston and SF AppleFests. It turned out he was the author of
>Leprechaun and was ALSO the author of one of the Apple //e games that I think
>is/was really good: Rescue Raiders. He also wrote Eliminator. These don't
>change my mind about not wanting the Mac at AppleFest, yet it was fun talking
>to the guy and I'll probably speak with him more tomorrow. I said maybe he
>should write a //GS version of Leprechaun and he said something like "No, you
>can do it, I'll give you the source." I also mentioned how similar the Mac and
>IIGS are now in terms of programming, he still didn't like the idea. Hell,
>maybe in 5-10 years I'll take him up on that deal (even if the //GS doesn't
>exist anymore in terms of current sales, it'd be fun to try). Much of it would
>be simplifying the graphics.

1) The programs on the //e series were:
	Exterminator (not well known)
	Rescue Raiders
	Cavern Cobra (//gs)
	Visualizer (//gs business)
	Floppy (lost to pirates)

I enjoyed our discussion.  Another correction:  I would have someone do
the conversion only because I don't have time.  I now run a company :)
Otherwise, I know the in's and out's of the GS.  I was on the cursed thing
when it was still a prototype in a //e box.

Thanks for the comments on Leprechaun.  I worked long and hard on it.
I would enjoy answering questions about it by mail.  Postings may be
missed unless they have 'Leprehcaun' in the heading.

Thanks, short and pudgy one. :)



Sincerely,


Gregory E. Hale, aka: The Leprechaun Guy

P.S. Sorry about crashing your show, but I am sort of desperate for any
marketing I can get.  I am doing this all on my own and I don't have
$50,000 to shove into a few (<3) advertisements.  Thus, I try to go to
shows and do my own PR.  Apologies accepted?


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