Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmswe!prophet!karl From: karl@prophet.UUCP (Karl-Gunnar Hultland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Eye of the Beholder Message-ID: Date: 3 Jun 91 13:39:18 GMT Article-I.D.: prophet.karl.3728 References: <726@digigw.digital.co.jp> <11356@mirsa.inria.fr> <1991May20.195524.22828@b17a.ingr.com> <1849@madnix.UUCP> <824@tnc.UUCP> Lines: 41 >In article <824@tnc.UUCP> m0030@tnc.UUCP (FRANK MCPHERSON) writes: >In article <1849@madnix.UUCP> tinny@madnix.UUCP (Philip Varner) writes: >> >> Eye Of The Beholder IS A COPY od Dungeon Master, right down to displaying the body where items are carried! Good Game, but if there was a law prohibiting copying the user interfaces, EoB would have been sued and beaten in an instant. >> >>-- >>UUCP: {harvard|rutgers|ucbvax}!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!tinny >> {decvax|att}! > > > >There is a copyright on look and feel. However, I don't think Eye of >the Beholder will have a problem with that. It's similar to Dungeon >Master, and does seem to have taken some inspiration from it, but if >you really want to get picky about the user interfaces, wizardry I is >the first game I remember to have a 3-d type interface. The graphics >weren't nearly as good as those of DM, CSB and EOB, but the idea was >there.... > >- emcphers@manu.cs.vt.edu Alternate Reality also had a 3d interface. Karl PS Does anyone know what happened to the company which made Alternate Reality?? If they are dead is there any chance someone could release the source in PD? It's wery annoying getting those Please insert ... disk messages without them beeing released. --- Karl Hultland, {rutgers | pyramid | uunet}!cmbvax!cbmehq!cbmswe!prophet!karl Organization: Mine all mine. Egoist: a person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. - A. Bierce