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From: Vince Hodgson
Subject: Bad Day Simulator 2001
System Requirements
Any Mac (68k or PPC)
Plenty of time to waste
********* The Amazing Bad Day Simulator 2001 *********
Copyright (c) Practically Useless Software 1991, 2001
Features:
- Sorrow
- Woe
- Bad Times
New in BDS2001:
- GOOD TIMES!!!!
Ok, so what's it all about?
Don't you just hate it when you aim for a spotted fish, and all you get is a stripey one? (What do you mean, no?). It can really bring your whole day down. Fortunately you can now endure all this heartache in a virtual format, leaving you free to enjoy your real life.
History
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Bad Day Simulator was originally written for the Amiga (in AMOS) in 1991 by me, Vince Hodgson. It was soon ported to other popular formats such as 68k Macintosh (by Graham Cox) and Windows 3.1 (by Stephen Baxter), as well as ZX81, Spectrum and so on. Unfortunately these versions are lost to the world (unless Graham or Stephen can put me right on that one).
In 1997 BDS found its spiritual home on the internet and lived there for 4 good years. Now I've changed my ISP I feel it's about time I brought BDS back to the desktop, and here we are! Packed with new features (OK, packed with one new feature, you can now choose how bad you day is going to be) and ready to go, BDS2001 is the future of home despondency now.
This is also my first attempt* at programming since that Amiga version all those years ago, so I'd love to hear any comments. Then I'll start on other useless nonsense such as Washing Machine Emulator and the like. The way I look at it, all the useful software has been written and so I might as well write some useless software.
*This is not strictly true, if you count the times I've re-written BDS for the ZX81 & Spectrum (emulated), but seeing as it's only four lines of code, I don't think it counts
System requirements
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Any Macintosh or Windows95+ computer*, plenty of time to waste doing pointless things.
*Depending on which archive you have
Contact me
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e-mail: vincent.hodgson@ntlworld.com
BDS 2001 is mail-ware. If you like it (or hate it, or just use it, or just use it once) please send me an e-mail to the above. Just so I can see where it gets to.