Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!amelia!eos!shelby!portia!jessica!bard From: bard@jessica.Stanford.EDU (David Hopper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: uncensored wild copper? Message-ID: <9022@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 9 Feb 90 20:30:07 GMT References: <21924@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: USENET News System Reply-To: bard@jessica.Stanford.EDU (David Hopper) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 24 In article <21924@pasteur.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 Hear Hear! I have the Doc Awesome demo; this also has some bad language in it (albeit partially cut off on an NTSC screen) and this demo remains the most impressive music demo I have ever seen/heard on the Amiga. Let the pirates make their demos! Just don't support the piracy. --Dave _____________________________________________________________________________ Dave Hopper _____ | bard@jessica.Stanford.EDU | | "Gee, Lion-O, I didn't know the /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|XXXXXXI_ | Sword could do THAT!"