Re: risc os gaming awards '07

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          Simon Smith <simon_smith_news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In message <11c83b1b4f.Andrew@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>           aw29009@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>  *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.
> 
I don't agree - he deserves recognition. Without him it would not be 
available for RISC OS along with /many/ other games. It's as simple as 
that really.

> 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.
> 
Not for RISC OS they weren't. The above brought the games to RISC OS - 
surely David's idea is to recognise that? Nobody's claiming that they 
wrote it. Perhaps "best ****t" would be more appropriate?

> 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.
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