Acorn Arcade forums: Time to enlist!

Jan "Artex" Klose has mailed us with an intriguing proposition - become a TEK trooper!

The first 20 people to email tektrooper@acornarcade.com will get a TEK trooper named after them. All the units in the game have to have names, and Jan thinks that an Acorn Arcade special is the way to do it! There is one restriction however - the name is limited to 6 characters max, so you may need to be a little creative.

Time to enlist!

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Hyacinth bouqet

Message #87259, posted at 10:17, 18/3/2002

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but the release date is still 15th April right?

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Rich

Message #87260, posted at 10:40, 18/3/2002, in reply to message #87259

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I believe so David, yes.

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Oovarvu Reeves

Message #87261, posted at 18:59, 18/3/2002, in reply to message #87260

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Why thank you Susan.

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Jeffrey Lee

Message #87262, posted at 19:34, 18/3/2002, in reply to message #87261

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*confused*

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Tim Fountain

Message #87263, posted at 21:37, 18/3/2002, in reply to message #87262

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If I counted right we've had 13 responses so far, so there're still a few troopers left to be named.

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A.Weston

Message #87264, posted at 09:48, 19/3/2002, in reply to message #87263

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What have people chosen?
I've given two alternatives in the event that somebody has chosen the same ;-)

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Morimer Braithwaite

Message #87265, posted at 09:49, 19/3/2002, in reply to message #87264

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Hi Jeffrey!

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Rich Goodwin

Message #87266, posted at 10:10, 19/3/2002, in reply to message #87265

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Goodbye, person who uses "amusing" names.

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Anonymous

Message #87267, posted at 10:31, 19/3/2002, in reply to message #87266

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At least they're not meant to be offensive.

Gerhaard

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Steve Allen

Message #87268, posted at 10:55, 19/3/2002, in reply to message #87267

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Nice rip off of what Konami did with MGS2 ;)

Cept there are 342 names in that!

I like it, tho I dont want to kill myself :(

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Simon Challands

Message #87269, posted at 12:14, 19/3/2002, in reply to message #87268

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Are we going to see a PaulM as Cheif Piece of Cannon Fodder? I sometimes feel that it would allow a lot of people to vent a lot of frustration...

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Guest

Message #87270, posted at 13:20, 19/3/2002, in reply to message #87269

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Someone sent in Paul THE Vigay's name?

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Rich Goodwin

Message #87271, posted at 13:22, 19/3/2002, in reply to message #87270

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Yes, I told Paul about this as soon as the posting went up. I'm hoping we can have a "most interesting way for killing Paul" screenshot compo later on - depends if TEK can display the name on screen or not.. :)

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Andrew Weston

Message #87272, posted at 15:03, 19/3/2002, in reply to message #87271

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I thought it was 6 letters we had to send?

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Rich Goodwin

Message #87273, posted at 15:03, 19/3/2002, in reply to message #87272

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Less than six actually, but hey, what the heck, if everyone sends in exactly six that's fine :)

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Rich Goodwin

Message #87274, posted at 15:16, 19/3/2002, in reply to message #87273

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if ((length($name) <= 6) && (length($name) > 0)) then {
print "OK\n";
} else {
print "Bad length\n";
}

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Andrew Weston

Message #87275, posted at 16:39, 19/3/2002, in reply to message #87274

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Crappy C!

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Rich Goodwin

Message #87276, posted at 16:40, 19/3/2002, in reply to message #87275

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Good, 'cos it's Perl :)

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Guest

Message #87277, posted at 16:49, 19/3/2002, in reply to message #87276

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"the name is limited to 6 characters max"

so how can that be less than six, Rich? :-p

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Rich Goodwin

Message #87278, posted at 18:20, 19/3/2002, in reply to message #87277

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Note the inclusion of the "max" part. There is a limitation - that limitation is that the /maximum/ number of characters is six. It can be less than six, but the max is six, and that's the limitation.* I've written it in modern English. I've written it in Perl. I've now written it in old-school English. How can I make that any clearer?

*(with apologies to MoJo JoJo)

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Rich Goodwin

Message #87279, posted at 18:26, 19/3/2002, in reply to message #87278

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Besides which, I've already seen at least one seven emailed in, and someone else complained that they couldn't see an email address anywhere...

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Guest

Message #87280, posted at 18:49, 19/3/2002, in reply to message #87279

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Perl was it?

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