mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick) (07/28/89)
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Okay guys and gals, here's your chance to become famous, and be involved
in a REAL software product and all of the glamour and excitement which
comes with it. Meet celebrities like John Foust or Matt Dillion, have
strangers stop you on the street and ask you what a GURU 00000004 is, and
get your name in a future Amigatrek episode. All this and more might be yours
if you enter and win the "Name Mike Smithwick's Software Contest".
For the unitiated, I've had a product called "Galileo" on the market from
April 1987 to January of this year. The product is a sky simulation, an
astronomy program which reproduces the sky more realistically then anything
else I've seen. Galileo was pulled from my previous publisher, Infinity
Software, for various reasons.
In the past few months while I've been
talking with other publishers I've learned that I can no longer use the name
Galileo and must come up with something equally clever and
understated. So I am throwing the ball into the USENET court, fully aware
of the fiendishly talented masses, the untapped pool of pure talent just
waiting to lend me a hand :-}
The winner will receive something much better then mere money: my enduring
gratitude. Plus I'll send them a copy of the program, if and when it
ever gets out there again. While I'm at it, I'll give the winner mention in the
manual as well. In the case of duplicate names, the earliest submission will win.
There are a number of similar programs out for some of those other machines,
so stay away from the following names, as they are already in use:
Universe, the Astronomer, Star Gazer, Sky Travel
TellStar, Deep Space, the Sky, LoadStar, SuperStar
AstroFinder
Please EMAIL responses. I'll post the winners and runners-up. Deadline is
in about 3 weeks or so, depending on the status of the software.
*** mike (still looking for a publisher) smithwick ***
"Los Angeles : Where neon goes to die"
[disclaimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]athomson@ayov10.dec.com (Alan Thomson) (07/29/89)
How about "Copernicus" ? ------ All opinions are mine and do not..... etc. --------------------- | Amigas have 4097 colours, | | Alan Thomson | | the last being Octarine - | | Digital Equipment Corp. | | the colour of MAGIC !! | | Ayr, Scotland. | athomson%ayov10.dec@decwrl.dec.com