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From: carl@udwarf.tymnet.com (Carl Baltrunas & Cherie Marinelli 0.1.9)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Risk
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Date: 16 Nov 90 09:35:11 GMT
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In article <15687@reed.UUCP>, orpheus@reed.UUCP (Aaron Semplers) writes:
> 
> I decided to call Tone Engel and find out whether there was a newer
> version than the black and white one I had.

> Apparently, Engel wrote it as a proposal to Parker Brothers. They had
> some gripes about the user interface and the deal fell apart. He said
> the copy I had was a copy of a bootleg that was never intended to be
> distributed.  He also said that he was not planning on working on it
> again, and that Parker Brothers was glad of it.
>
I always wondered how he got past Parker Prothers and the trademark.  Thank
you for letting us know.

Well, I just pulled out ResEdit and compared the two versions of Risk I have
a little bit more.

Black & White version:
    The "About Risk" from the apple icon gives us the picture that lists
    Tone Engel as the implementor and gives his address and 1986 as the date.
    A "str" resource has "Tone Engel and Mark Briggs" listed as implementors.
    The get info comments say "Tone's Tester - August 4, 1985".

Color version:
    The get info comments say "A world conquest game" and "version 2.40" which
    appears to be version 2, revision 4, revision-stage 0 or build-number 0.
    All references to Tone Engel et al have been removed.  No authorship was
    found anywhere in the file that I looked.  (Mind you, I just did all this
    while I was composing this message, so I didn't scan the code resources for
    any possible strings.)  The BNDL resource has references to the color icons
    and there are a few icons in the icl8 resource.

They appear to play identically, except that the color version lets you choose
colors and the b&w version lets you choose patterns.  I think you can also get
the patterns on the color version, but I don't remember where or when I saw it.
The color version has a couple of extra menu options and lets you set animation
speed.

> Ignorant fools. Dare I say it, that bootleg has become one of the most
> popular Macintosh games ever. If they had just shrink-wrapped it and
> gotten it to some retailers... Oh well.

Maybe they're listening.  Then again, why would they be on the internet?

> Just goes to show, someone or something is trying to keep the Macintosh
> game market depressed. I don't know who, and I don't know why, but I
> intend to find out.

Gee! and I thought Apple was doin' that :-) by not putting in any custom
graphics chips like that other 680x0 machine. :-) :-) :-)

> orpheus@reed

-Carl


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 Cherie Marinelli - Bijoux
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