xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) (02/15/91)
Dan Barrett sez: [Stuff deleted about CMB's morning customer relations exercises] > Hell, here's another fact: 2.0 will NEVER be available for the Amiga > 400. What? You didn't even know there was going to be an Amiga 400? > It's got an 6800 CPU, 1 KB RAM, 50 KB external hard drive, 4,618,911 > joystick ports (perfect for playing the latest version of > BLAZEMONGER), and a new technological breakthrough: "reinterlaced" > video, for people who own 2 VCR's. Funny, because it has the needed joystick four-space multiplexor port, I mostly use mine for playing M.U.L.E., which was ported to the Amiga 400 in 1967. And with my new power-in-the-joystick optional enhancer microdot (see below), my 4,618,910 friends have never had a chance in the M.U.L.E. economic wars. n368bq@tamuts.tamu.edu (Raoul Rodriguez) writes: > yea, where is the new copy of BLAZEMONGER anyway, my copy (version > .0009) gurued after I completed the first level, 40 seconds of pure > excitement, and to top it all off, I can out with a POSITIVE score of > 4!!!!!! I think this is a new record, (call Guiness) Rats; I felt like I was doing good not to roll the longword score accumulator throgh a negative overflow before I complete that first gasp of surprise when BLAZEMONGER started up and altered reality in a 400m cube around me. Nearly inhaled my tentacles, too; luckily the game was over by then. > I think this was do in fact to the absence of the Cray-Ymp board > ($19.95 from REALLY creative computing) from my system, There seems to > be lack of CrayY-mp roms... True confession time. I LIED about the Cray Y/MP board being READY for beta release; we actually CANCELLED that project over THREE YEARS AGO, but we couldn't TELL anyone, because we were running a PONZI scheme on the MONEY folks sent in to RESERVE a unit in the FIRST batch of beta hardware. We spent all the money on RIOTOUS LIVING and the little leftover was put into our Cray Z/MP research, just to THROW the auditors OFF THE SCENT. Just our luck our JANITOR, named SCHIMMELHORNE, took to tinkering with the scanning tunneling microscope and ACCIDENTLY pushed enough atoms into a moderately interesting heap while he was SHOWING OFF for some DOXY from the steno pool, and created the first Z-MACHINE computer, making use for the first time of ALL ELEVEN dimensions to keep its components close together. Now I have the Cray Z/MP microdot computer embedded in my Amiga 400 joystick circuitry, and I win at M.U.L.E. _every_ time, but Papa Schimmelhorn can't remember how he built the first Z machine (he had his nose in some warm cleavage at the time) and so we can't come up with another one. That's OK, though, because I'm SELLING THE COMPANY to Donald Trump as a TAX WRITEOFF just as soon as he gets back on his feet, and retiring to Burmuda with the remaining investment funds, to try to figure out how to get a positive score in BLAZEMONGER using the worlds only CLAIRVOYANT JOYSTICK. > Raoul "Still lookin' for the holodeck board" Rodriguez Kent, the man from xanth. <xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us>