Possible prior art [Was: Patent concerns]

David Mohring NZheretic at gmail.com
Sat Jan 19 08:51:27 UTC 2008


On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:46:02 -0500, Tom \"spot\" Callaway wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I hate for my first post to this mailing list to be a depressing one,
> but I need to pass along some bad news.
> 
> Due to patent concerns, we won't be able to include any games in Fedora
> which meet the following criteria:
> 
> A game where "targets" move across the screen to a predetermined point
> or line, where the player hits a button/key/mouse click as the target(s)
> crosses that point or line, and gets points.
> 

Anybody out there can lay your hands on a copy of 
Easy Guitar for the Commodore 64 by DJ Software, Circa 1986-1989

>From memory it includes such a game with the fret positions mapped to 
the keyboard.

David Mohring -We know where the skeletons are buried,and who buried them.





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