New aquisition: Xenophobe

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Sun Sep 8 09:50:00 2002

I assume that you are talking about the game.

The FIRST "Xenophobe" was our compatability testing program.

I hadn't really intended to get into testing compatability, but my
publisher was trying to negotiate with IBM, and asked me to write a
version of XenoCopy that would refuse to run on anything but the IBM PC.
I did that by calling the ROM BASIC.
Then the scum^H^H^H^H publisher sent THAT version out to reviewers.

When PC World used XenoCopy, Lotus?, and Flight Simulator as their method
of testing compatability of clones (1/83?), and referred to the 5150 ONLY
version of XenoCopy as "the acid test", I wrote and distributed a program
called "XenoPhobe : The acid test" that checked clone compatability level.


Enforcing a trademark is too much like work.

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Fred Cisin                      cisin_at_xenosoft.com
XenoSoft                        http://www.xenosoft.com
Received on Sun Sep 08 2002 - 09:50:00 BST

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