Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!helios!che_sun1!klf1305 From: klf1305@che_sun1.tamu.edu (Kelly L. Fergason) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games Subject: Re: PT109 Message-ID: <7398@helios.TAMU.EDU> Date: 13 Aug 90 18:34:05 GMT References: <0093B091.D93D82E0@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Organization: Texas A&M University, Chemical Engineering Lines: 27 In article <0093B091.D93D82E0@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu> jprice@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (John Price) writes: >In article , jt29+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Thomas) writes: >>I have some difficulty running PT109 on my SE-30. Every time I sink a >>ship, the machine crashes. > > Ah, yet another victim of the "pacifistic game" syndrome... > > PT109, for those who don't know it, was written by an eternal >war-hater. Every game he's written, by the way, is like this. The object >of the game is *not* to kill all the bad guys, but rather to sit down with >them, talk out your differences, and for you both to learn and grow from >the experience. Try it again, with this in mind. > > *Real* big smiley here... :) I am glad you put the smiley there. :-) I wouldn't call Gordon Walton a war-hater. Even if he does feed stray dogs. He did have a sign on his house that said "This house protected by a shotgun 3 days a week. You guess which three." But back to PT. I am here in the town where it was written, but I am not sure who is supporting it now. A lot of people have left for other endeavors since PT was done. But I will ask about your problem. Kelly Fergason