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- From: Jason Kelk <tmr@cosine.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Is G*P back up?!
- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 96 01:26:56 GMT
- Organization: Cosine Systems
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- Pontus Berg (Bacchus@FairLight.COM) wrote:
-
- : "along" is not impersonating to me, and in this case Ewen is still right!
- : You may still think what you like of him, but don't hate his for this as
- : this is partially rigth! I did code the CyberBuster but it was rather
- : limited as I didn't have all that many games to test the routine on.
-
- Hmmm, well what I meant was that he also issues personal messages and greets
- to you as though he is actually trading. The text actually reads (to me
- this is ofcourse but others have commented the same) that he is actively
- working *with* you not just expanding on a utility you have made.
-
- Then, in the previous post I said:
-
- : I consider Ewen to be an inspiration to me. Every time I start to get abit
- : down and say to myself "You are a crap coder. Give up!" I just look at
- : Ewens demos and I decide I'm not such a bad coder after all!!!
-
- And Pontus replied:
-
- : They might leave lots to wish for in a technical aspect, but I find them
- : pretty neat from time to time. And also; it takes 100 coders to do a demo -
- : one to do it and 99 to say they can do it better!!! Remeber this. KF is a
- : great coder but action speaks louder than words!
-
- Well, its not just the technical aspect. I admit that I am not a really
- brilliant coder and I have had my code slagged from time to time.
- But what "annoys" me (for want of a better word) about Ewens work is that he
- makes some, err, odd claims. For example, in the last demo I saw from him
- (A Lesson Is Psychology) he claims to be the first person to have a small
- part running during decompression.
-
- Now, I could be wrong, but surely this is the mainstay of *any* trackmo or
- dentro?! Each part depacks whilst the last is running. Of course Ewen
- may mean that he is the first to have a part going on the *initial* depack,
- but if thats what he means then I still have a demo from about 1986 that
- does the same and besides which the only thing this adds to the demo is a
- small snatch of the old Alien music and a chunk of unpacked data after
- the main file.
-
- The other strange thing Ewen wrote was that he thought that we should all
- stop using DYCP. During a DYCP part. Now, again he is entitled to his
- opinion, and to a degree I agreed with him. But it smacks a bit of "*I* am
- allowed to do DYCP but you are not" which is a tad arrogant surely?!
-
- As for KF's comment, I don't believe he was referring to Ewens code in his
- post. Ewen and the Triad guys have been exchanging insults for a while now
- with Ewen even going as far as wishing Jerry dead.
-
- Back in the previous post I then said:
-
- : Anyone want to join
- : the Ewen Gillies fan club? Didn't think so...
-
- And Pontus replied:
-
- : Nope, but I don't want to on the "hate beyond reason" either!
-
- Sorry, that bit was a another joke! I forgot the smiley. I'll try again:
-
- Anyone what to join the Ewen Gillies fan club? Didn't think so... =-)
- There, thats better! I do tend to forget how big an audience there is out
- there and how easy it is to misinterpret what I write!!
-
- I have never said I *hated* Ewen, this is a very strong word. But his
- actions are a bit more than a little antisocial. He has tried to ruin Russ
- Michaels business, asked Jerry of Triad why he isn't dead yet (subtle) and
- taken over someone elses crew without permission.
-
- I *don't* hate him, but he what he says does get up my nose and those of
- several other people. All I was doing initially was establishing that he
- had infact taken over G*P without permission from its previous owners, which
- he has, and in your own case making you aware of what Ewen is claiming.
-
- Obviously you knew and I'll say sorry for going over old ground, but I still
- feel that he has committed a major faux pas in taking the Genesis name.
- I may be alone on this but if I am and nobody can see a problem with this
- I'd like to re-start the 1001 crew, please! =-)
-
- I'm sorry if I didn't make myself clear to everybody but I hope this clears
- things up a bit.
-
- Jason (who hopes he made his point correctly this time! =-)
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