Re: risc os gaming awards '07

Simon Smith wrote:
> In message <11c83b1b4f.Andrew@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>           aw29009@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>
> >  *best freeware game award -
>
> > Quake 2 - Dave Brown
> > Battle of Wesnoth - Alan Buckley
>
>
> Battle for Wesnoth is a free (GPL2.0) game and the executable downloads
are
> not part of the official project. The BFW team only releases the game's
> source code. Binary executables or applications are always contributed
by
> community volunteers.
>
> While Alan deserves thanks for troubling to compile it for RISC OS,
> crediting him as above is rather misleading.
>
> Similarly Dave Brown deserves credit for ****ting Quake 2 (which is also
> GPL), and it would probably have involved more work on his part than
simply
> compiling Battle for Wesnoth because he has made use of the IyonixMesa
> library (so I gather, from
http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact1784.html),
> but nominating these two gents for 'best freeware game' is a bit of a
> nonsense, in my view, given the sizable development teams who were
/really/
> responsible for producing those two games.
>
> Perhaps 'special thanks for ****ting ...' would be a better way of
expressing
> appreciation to them? In which case I'd also like to thank 'Caveman'
> (cavemansland.blogspot.com) for ****ting Hex-A-Hop and Alan Buckley again
for
> PipeNightDreams.
>
> --
> Simon Smith
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hex a hop is a very, very addicting game, it kept me playing for
weeks! i'm still stuck on 97%! has any here gone any further?