Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tronsbox!bleys From: bleys@tronsbox.xei.com (Bill Cavanaugh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: "Demos" and piracy Message-ID: <269e8989-2468.1comp.sys.amiga-1@tronsbox.xei.com> Date: 14 Jul 90 06:00:57 GMT References: <4832.tnews@templar.actrix.co.nz> Lines: 26 The thing I object to about those demos is the abominable language. Not grammatical or spelling errors, but obscenity. I've wanted to show off my Amiga many times to people who are offended by the F word, and while those demos are the most impressive examples of what you can do with the machine, I just can't show them to the parents of a twelve year old girl. They'll think that that's what the machine is all about and run for cover. I saw a fantastic demo running in the window of the local Software Etc. recently, and I watched it for a while. It started out innocently enough, until the words "GLORIOUS F***INGS TO " followed by a list of people they either like or don't like, I'm not sure which . I went in and told the manager to take a look, and he regretfully had to take the demo down. That's not the kind of thing that wins friends and influences people in a mall... BTW, someone said that there's an associated text file which you can change. That's not always true. Sometimes, as in the case of the demo at the store, it's encoded in tthe binary. I couldn't even find the text to blank it out with newzap... /******************************************************************** * All of the above copyright by the below. * * Bill Cavanaugh uunet!tronsbox!bleys * * "You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever." * * Larry Anderson * ********************************************************************/