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...went wrong with her business data-management program. She is an old hand at such troubleshooting, having spent much of last semester "debugging" a program that, when printed out, stretches over 30 ft. Jim McGuire, 13, is creating a video game called Spaceship, which will let electronic star warriors zap a boxy-looking orbital intruder. A more mundane program is emerging from 15-year-old Dave McCann's terminal: a verb test for seventh-and eighth-grade Spanish classes. Off in a corner two youngsters are putting the impish face of Mad magazine's cartoon hero, Alfred...
...sudden. Reese ignities. Zap. He's hit one too many balls into the tin, and he's completely fed up. No way is this arrogant, snotty kid going to beat him. He screws up his forehead in fury, his eyes flame, his face turns beet red. Not particularly fast, he somehow starts to run down every shot. Not smooth or aesthetically appealing to watch, he somehow knocks shots just out of Benello's reach. By the time Reese has racked up the next three games, his opponent has fled the court and charged through the crowd of spectators with...
...video-game maker and a subsidiary of Warner Communications, retains 15 lawyers to file copyright protection lawsuits to combat pirates. Last month a three-judge panel in New York upheld a ruling that videogame companies can copyright their products, including the visual and sound effects down to the last zap. Many companies have introduced special coding schemes that are designed to stop copying. The trouble is that computer specialists, who may be only in their teens, can often easily break the protective codes. Says Steven P. Jobs, 26, chairman of Apple Computer: "I've never seen a software protection...
...take away a penalty-killing unit, you take away a power-play unit, and considering the circumstances, I think the kids played well," Cleary said after the game. They played the Eagles even, if that's what he means, but for long stretches the zap was missing on both sides...
...cause the displayed page of text to disappear on her Burroughs Redactor-III. (Apple Computer Inc. offers an accessory for just such occasions-a battery pack that supplies electricity during blackouts. Its name: Apple Juice.) The most surreal glitch occurred when Environmentalist-Writer Michael Parfit, 30, recently heard a zap, and his Radio Shack TRS-80 stopped dead. It seemed that ants had crawled into the air vents...