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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: New Game: ASTROTIT Part 1 of 2
Message-ID: <2920@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 23:07:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: ncoast.2920
Posted: Thu Jul 16 23:07:21 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 19:45:44 EDT
References: <3758@spool.WISC.EDU> <2749@ncoast.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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As quoted from <2394@hoptoad.uucp> by farren@hoptoad.uucp (Mike Farren):
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| In article <213@etn-rad.UUCP> jru@etn-rad.UUCP (0000-John Unekis) writes:
| > There seems to be a shortage of nice clean fun games
| > in the public domain for the IBM PC family. I have written
| > such a game and am distributing it here. It is a shoot-em-up
| > style spaceship game and it should be offensive to no one.
|
| Well, *I* think that gratuitous violence in ANY form is offensive, so
| there! | :-), sort of
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I, for one, have wished for a version of Phantasia which has a more peaceful
intent; alas, this will require better AI than we have now. (Humans, who
have intelligence, _still_ prefer fighting to diplomacy because it's easier.
Are you surprised that computers are limited to the simpler route?)
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