This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Goodbye PCS-61
Message #134354
Goodbye, old forum. I feel like I did when Crosley Field closed. Don W.
If you'd like. /^o^\
Copy Protection
Message #134328
The best way to 'vote' for (or against) anything in the marketplace is with your pocketbook. If the preceeding statement is true, then it behooves each of us who disapprove of CP to NOT buy products that are protected. That's the best and fastest way to make the point. /^o^\
Do I get to flunk Bill Gates??
JUST SAYING HELLO
Message #134231
Hi Brian, Welcome to the Amiga Forum! If we can be of assistance…just ask! Don
#CP == Communist Party?
Message #134218
Nah, still don't like it.
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Time == Illusion
Message #134186
Hmm. Sounds like how I discovered cyberspace… damn computer-inspired hallucinations. – John
Um. Well, there's the matter of Ethics and Responsibility rearing their ugly heads. You see your responsibility as 100% to your client in the here and now – for which they (of course) like you. _I_ see your responsibility to the future of computing, as well, and it's weighty responsibility,…
JUST SAYING HELLO
Message #134172
TO: ALL HELLO OUT THERE! I'M BRIAN AND JUST WANT TO INTRODUCE MYSELF DROP A LINE SOMETIME BRIAN CORNELL
CP == Communist Party?
Message #134166
Well, if you hate "communism," how about a "National Software Service"? The (democratically elected) government could set up Standard Difficulty Groupings for various types of application program. A name and address filer would be category A, a video store POS would be category B, a Galagan swooping onto a Vaus…
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#IBM, editors and stuff
Message #134136
Picture before you someone who has never had much contact with a computer. And now there is the overall feeling that your job depends on your learning how to use it. Anxiety is now increased. It's very easy to blame anything going wrong on the computer's software or hardware thus…
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IBM, editors and stuff
Message #134106
Don, I wholeheartedly agree with what you have said. I started out with a TRS-80 model-I back around '78/79. Although I took the computer seriously, and wrote most of my own software, most people I knew were playing games. (almost nothing else was available) I eventually upgraded to a MS-Dos…
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faery tale
Message #134104
No thanks Tom.. me and communism don't get along at all well. 🙂 -larry
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IBM, editors and stuff
Message #134103
Vic, That's good news! I hope she learned her lesson! 🙂 -larry
Having locks on windows is pretty foolish too, but it seems to be a common practice. There are lots of disillusioned homeowners and publishers out there. …cheath
Henry, That also means that a legitimate purchaser can use the program easily, and without having to keep the mnaual from being chomped by the dog or penut-buttered by the kids. Don't get me wrong. I rather like the code wheel in Interceptor, or would, if you didn't have to…
It may be. However, the forum in no way encourages or promotes software thief. Anyone who has purchased Faery Tale Adventure would know what the keywords are.
You recognized me without my beard?
Carolyn, The map that comes with the game is all that you need. Lee
Agreed Henry. The explanatory replies were valid. A cheap shot seems a bit out of place. Ted
I don't think so – it strongly seems as if the game wasn't purchased. That
Gee Steve, that's a bit heavy from the forum manager. Ted
I will pick this up later once I rest from this discussion, and get my thoughts together better.
But memorizing the messages means that someone who didn't own the program could do that too!
Easy – hitler's – the one we're encouraged to live by via government indoctrination. "Die for your country" – " and so forth. Mind you, I said it was a _greater_ evil (agreed, that is) not _the_ evil one. They are both _very_ wrong, I think. And I wouldn't want…
Marlene, Thanks for the info on BBS's. Rick
Ah, Henry, I think we're homing in on it. You damn the Christian faith. What tenet or tenets of the Christian faith do you find so damnable? What did you mean when you said that the teachings of Jesus were "undeniably beautiful"?
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Evil for Henry
Message #132862
So the Pope kneels down next to his bed, saying his prayers. Zap! Bolt of lightning, God sits down on the bed, says "Pope, you've been such a good Pope, I'm going to grant you two wishes, anything you want, I'll give it to you." Pope says, "You know, God,…
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Evil for Henry
Message #132861
I think what Henry wants is for us to treat him as his own unique shade of grey, and because we're all our own shades of grey, we can't judge him or stop him if he's violating us in any way… War Is Peace! Two legs good, four legs bad!
It's something you'd know about if you had purchased the game.
Ben, After listening to him closely, Jesus' contemporaries decided that the appropriate response to his teachings was death by torture. Honestly, now, wouldn't you endorse the crucifixion of Jimmy Swaggart? and if faced with the opportunity to spare the lives of Rev. Swaggart or a common thief, would you have…
Six possible answers? Code wheel? Are these things that a "new comer" should know about?/EXIT six possible answers? code [D [D/exit
Rick, BBS.TXT in LIB 4. Marlene
#Amiga BBS's???
Message #132841
Can anyone tell me where I can get a listing of Amiga BBS's? Thanks Rick
But Henry, there are only about 6 possible ones, and they can be memorized rather easily. Beats the ^@##&^% out of a 'code wheel'
No, I wouldn't write a book like that, though I do feel that religon is one of the world's major problems. I do _not_ have an "answer" to the worlds problems, nor to the insecurity that religon addresses, so I have nothing to say. Furthermore, I'm not knowledgeable enough about…
Henry, The grey is there, in the statement you just made. One cannot be 'in a faith'. One who practices a philosophy must of necessity be moulded by that philosophy, their actions reflecting the tenets of that philosophy. To say that you damn the phiosophy yet not everyone who practices…
Ben, Ah… I'd heard something along the lines that you were writing a new book and not knowing what the subject intailed was really believing that Thomas's statement was in there. I know a lot of folks that really do feel that way (as it appears you do) and while…
Well, there is no book… but notice *I* wasn't grinning either.
No grins, and somehow I believe it. -John
Exactly – I damn the faith but not necessarily everyone in it or who practices it, which is my original point. And, that's where the "grey" comes in.
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#Evil for Henry
Message #132774
And there are those of us who hold serious reservations about those areas of his teachings… Once you don't buy the christian precept that _everything_ he said was right on the basis of "he said it", there is quite a number of items that make little or no sense once…
Hey! How'd you get page one of my new book, "What's evil in the world today" ???? –Ben–
Henry, How can you be a poet and give so little weight to words? "Christianity is Evil" is an unconditional damnation of a faith. You're saying Lutherans and Calvinists are "Christians," so I guess you mean "Christianity" is anyone or anything claiming to be "Christian." Thus your original statement may…
Jesu Christi…
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#Evil for Henry
Message #132743
I haven't turned 180 degrees – perhaps through more discussion and longer messages, you've come to understand what I'm saying better. Mother Theresa may not be a Lutheran or Calvinist, but Lutherans and Calvanisits will tell you they are Christians.
Carolyn, The answer to the 3 questions is part of the game's copy protection scheme to prevent people from using illegal copies. The answers change each time you boot, and can be found on the map that is part of the game's documentation. Lee
#faery tale
Message #132720
Faery Tale Adventure Will someone please tell me the answer to the 3 questions???
#132598-
Evil for Henry
Message #132658
You get my drift. You can lump all the sects and denominations together as 'Christian Religions,' but you are engaged in the enterprise of the encyclopediast. The taxonomist will say 'these religions are called Christian because they hold that the divine was manifest in the life of Jesus of Nazareth.'…
#132598-
Evil for Henry
Message #132657
Try telling Jerry Fallwell that William Sloan Coffin is a Christian.
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