Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
From: [email address removed] (Bob Tausworthe)
Subject: SPISPOPD Alpha avail on anon ftp!
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 02:46:50 GMT

The title says it all. I've uploaded a pirated alpha copy of SPISPOPD that I stole from my grandma's computer last night. The graphics are fantastic, but I it looks like some of the features that were so talked about in the SPISPOPDFAQ.V234.1 will not be available (at least on in this alpha).

Pumpkin carving with chainsaw: out. Apparently it took just too much rendering to allow incidental carving marks to appear on pumpkins.
 
 
pumpkin shell jail: OUT! That's right. It was one of the best features too! You will no longer be able to lock your player-friends in a pumpkin shell and keep them very well. (Oh well).
 
 
Capture the Pumpkin: OUT! It was decided that this could be done by one of the many whizzbang programmers out there as an SPISPOPD add-on.

All in all though, it was a fantasic game. I've never seen the color orange so pure.... so pure.

Anyway, I digress. If you try fast, you can find the game on ftp.doom.edu in pub/msdos/uploads/illegal/alphas. In order to confuse the adminstrator I called it catch.afew.Z.

Hope it stayes there a while.

              tozz

DON"T FLAME ME! IF I DIDN"T DO IT, SOMEBODY WOULD. SPISPOPD IS JUST TOO GOOD A GAME TO KEEP AWAY FROM US.