Re: OS/2 ripped of XNeko

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From: ttullio
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 21:54

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In article <1992Aug6.165353.29530@njitgw.njit.edu>, dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
> In article <1992Aug6.053454.23059@zip.eecs.umich.edu> gilgalad@sparky.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes:
>>
>>Hi.  has anybody noticed that OS/2 2.0 games has a "game" called
>>"Cat and Mouse".  It is EXACTLY XNeko.  I don't remember what
>>XNeko's status was (PD, Copyrighted, GPL, ...), but I'm willing to
>>wager real cash that this stuff was lifted.  They could have at least
>>given the author credit.
> 
> Neko is a public domain package.  The OS/2 version was written a while
> ago (I ran it under OS/2 1.2 for a while).  IBM bought the OS/2
> version from the person who ported it.

What really makes me scratch my head is why doesn't OS/2 NEKO allow the
background screen color(s) to show through around the cat?!  Seems pretty
silly to define it as ALWAYS GREY.   (OR, is this just a problem with
my system?)  :-)
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