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From: jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Jules Cisek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: uncensored wild copper?
Summary: PAL
Message-ID: <2518@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 9 Feb 90 16:11:27 GMT
References: <21924@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center
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In article <21924@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, jwz@teak.berkeley.edu (Jamie Zawinski) writes:
> I just FTPed and downloaded the "Wild Copper" demo from somewhere (I don't
> remember where).  With all the talk there was about how this demo contained an
> offensive message, I was surprised to see no text; I ran "strings" on it, and
> sure enough, there is such a message in the executable.  By fiddling with
> vhold, I can see that this message used to scroll across the bottom of the 
> screen until someone stomped on the binary to remove it.
> 
> So does anyone out there have the *unaltered* version of this demo?  I find
> the idea of this sort of censorship much more offensive than a few foul words.
> 
> 		-- Jamie

Relax, Jamie.  The reason why you don't see the message in "Wild Copper"
is because it is a demo from Europe.  Europe uses the PAL standard which
has  a higher vertical resolution than our own standard.  If you notice,
you can just see the top of the scrolling message at the very bottom  of
your screen.

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