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From: keithd@gryphon.COM (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: BADGE contest suggestions
Message-ID: <8870@gryphon.COM>
Date: 22 Nov 88 13:47:44 GMT
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In article <3009@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I understand Electronic Arts did attempt to enter something like that in the
>contest and were rebuffed.

So I guess we don't get to see it now, eh?

As far as I'm concerned, as long as I know what it is going to do ahead of
time, I don't care what it does.   I can always decide not to run it if
I don't like how it is going to act.

>I wrote an entry in the contest and as far as I know there are no compiler
>or operating system bugs that would keep you from meeting the rules.

Check out the thread on the 1.3 Run command for a start.

>> The average Amiga owner doesn't even know how to edit his startup-sequence,
>> perhaps they should have bought an ST or a Mac?
>
>We're not talking about your average Amiga owner...

It doesn't speak to well about the user friendliness of the machine if 
only experts can create entertaining demos.

Keith Doyle
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