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Re: Mike Ferris' Risk.app

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From: harit
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 12:08
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In article <1993Jan3.060714.20777@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>  
fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (Michael Glenn) writes:
> 
> > Anybody else out there have Mike Ferris' excellent Risk.app and spend
> > as much time with it as I do?  :~)  I'd be interested in an exchange
> > of computer players with anybody who's written them.
> 
> I downloaded the pre-release version 0.95, and was waiting for 1.0 to come  
> out.  I looked again, and all I could find was 0.95 on sonata.  This  
> version is very slow (compared to the mac version that ran on my macintosh  
> SE which is at least 25 times slower than my NeXTStation Turbo...)  It  
> also had only 1 computer player... (it had 2, but the other one just sat  
> there and never moved)  And this guy is very easy to beat.
> 
> I think the interface is really nice, and look forward to its completion.
> 
> Michael Glenn
> fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (NeXTMail welcome)

Does anyone have a current e-mail address for Mike Ferris?  I tried to contact  
him by mail to request the source for the computer players and my mail bounced.
-- 
Michael Allen Latta
Kripalu Center
harit@kripalu.com
(413)448-3288
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