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From: bleys@tronsbox.UUCP (Bill Cavanaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: uncensored wild copper?
Message-ID: <25d468f8:4737.1comp.sys.amiga;1@tronsbox.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 90 23:00:17 GMT
References: <21924@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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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.

No one did anything to the demo.  It was created in Europe, and it's PAL. 
They've got more lines on the screen than us NTSC folks do, so the demo goes
down to the bottom of our screens and keeps going.

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