To enter the grand
EHP PALM OS Elite Competition, comptetitors sent an
email
completing the phrase
"Preventing publication of PALM OS Elite is wrong because..."
in no more than 42 words.
The submitters of the three entries considered most amusing, apt, heartfelt, profound, or otherwise
meritorious were to have recieved a copy of the final shelved Palm OS Elite executable.
Competition closing date was 31 March 2003 but it was cancelled prior to this date.
Bad luck, Commanders.
The state of play on cancellation was as follows:
Having traveled through the
dimensions and
"
seen the carnage rage across a universe that had no
Palmtop Elite
"
, Commander Harper was looking like a winner,
the judges recognising that alternate time lines should be taken seriously.
Commander Braisby was in the frame for his
" ... Having wasted much of my childhood playing this insanely addictive game
I feel it is only correct and proper that I can play it on the Palm at work,
and waste a perfectly good job too. "
Commander James' point that
Preventing publication of PALM OS Elite is wrong because
"
... Otherwise we'll just all pirate it anyway, and poor Till won't reap any
benefit.:( "
is too true to be easily dismissed.
Commander Schneider hit the nail with "
... the legend must not die. Never.
"
Commander Moriarty had
"
... Elite was the first game that manifested PHYSICAL sensations from
the MENTAL. I will never forget the suspense of limping back to base
following a vicious attack, or the sweaty palms while perfecting
docking. Please give Elite fans everywhere these feelings again!
"
Commander Flame transmitted some scuttlebutt.
Commander Chopper felt that
"
Void sucks each forty seven of the Flight Elders feathery balls and we need a decent version on the palm!
"
These Commanders were all vectored on the
booty, KrugerFlux and De Lacy Volewarp forced conflicting assertions on continuum along proximal knifeedges of destiny, but the Viper had the hyperdrop.
All will have to make do with their secret copetition cancellation consolation prize.
Commander Fire's
argument
that " free trade was a key point of Elite ,
only the priates opposing commerce. "
ruled himself out as an illicit binary would jeapardise
what is clearly a Very Clean Legal Status.
Commander Smith
was expelled through the airlock for legal reasons.
Finally, Commander Hagen is unable to fit a BBC B into his shirt pocket,
but might have better luck given a Gameboy Advance, a baggy shirt,
and a hyperlock on Quirky Remakes.
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