Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!brolga!uqcspe!cs.uq.oz.au!warwick From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Legal action against STrabble game. Message-ID: <1704@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> Date: 31 May 91 05:12:30 GMT References: <1991May29.212157.27603@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au Reply-To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au Lines: 30 In mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) writes: >As an aside: >I play the PD Tetris and Arkanoid games rather than the commercial ones. >Why? >Because I have a monochrome monitor. >If the software companies are so lazy that they won't make their games run on >my computer, well, I'll just have to use the superior PD programs. >I think (no guarantees) that the commercial Scrabble game is colour-only. It >certainly looks that way from the box. I wouldn't be suprised - the IBM version only uses CGA (the lowest of the lows). This does show how poor the implementation is. I wrote STrabble in mono first, then spent 2 days converting it to colour. It can only be described as poor programming not to be so flexible. Hey, and get this: The IBM version had music and beeps! I was soooooo impressed :-). Ciao, Warwick. -- _-_|\ warwick@cs.uq.oz.au / * <-- Computer Science Department, \_.-._/ University of Queensland, v Brisbane, AUSTRALIA.