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[huhn_m]

Announcement

April Fools

Today, we are proud to announce that the admins have signed a contract
with the Casio Corporation. According to this contract the folowing things will take
action:

* The forum goes over to the ownership of casio.com
* The Admins will be made mods and loose admin powers.
* The Legends group will be moved to a less powerefull group
* All members that are part of the forum for since the year 02 and have a "post per day" ratio > 1.0 will get a one time payment of 5.000 USD as compensation for the lost mod powers.
* The Domain will go to the ownership of casio.com
* The Filesharing will be closed and only be available as archive.
* All "illegal" threads like "FX 1.0+ --> AFX" will be deleted.
* No more competitions will be held except by casio.com

April Fools

We really fought hard to get this chance with the least possible changes. Please
appreciate that. It was nice to have been with you.

April Fools

Your Admin Staff (April Fools)

[Roeoender]

You forgot to mention that I and some other freelance programmers (2072, BradN, Martin and some ppl from G100 forum) have to pay ?'???$ revenue for disassembling of casio calculator ROMs and making illegal add-ons.
At first they wanted ???'???$, but thanks to Crimson's diplomatic skills we were able to reduce it ???? times. Thx Crimson.

Roeoender.

*edited to avoid contract violation by huhn_m

[4nic8]

It seems that ,,fun time'' is over now . I'm glad that I'm quitting C/ASM programming for Casio AFX because it won't be the same anymore.

BTW Crimson: Please make Casio pay me for the MLCafx if you're so good at diplomacy.

4nic8

[huhn_m]

Roe, we are not supposed to talk about this or do you want to pay
the full amount for breach of contract?

[Marco]

You forgot to mention that I and some other freelance programmers (2072, BradN, Martin and some ppl from G100 forum) have to pay ?'???$ revenue for disassembling of casio calculator ROMs and making illegal add-ons. 

Casio is totally right. What do you think? You just can't make illegal ROM hacks! That you have to pay ?'???$ now just serves you right , hehe

Btw. when I started programming Add Ins I really didn't know that all that stuff (Programming Guide, Add In packager, ...) was based upon information got by hacking, I always thought it's based upon public information by Casio . So I have a really bad conscience now and therefore decided to stop programming immediately.

[Orwell]

Could'nt we have a litlle more explanations?
Tell us why you decided that without letting us know anything, and where are the advantages

[Bob Vila]

what the crap is this all about? look how many people are going to quit programming now...

* All members that are part of the forum for since the year 02 and have a "post per day" ratio > 1.0 will get a one time payment of 5.000 USD as compensation for the lost mod powers.

o poo, i dont get my five bucks

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( 0.9 posts per day / 2.97% of total forum posts )

[Orwell]

There are only 3 persons on this forum who can pretend to have such a high ratio.

huhn_m, why do you describe this as a "chance"?

Edit: Mmh... got it? Thanks madjar.

[C@siomax]

i really don't catch it ... this is on the one hand a sign from officials, but on the other hand I can't bear the idea that you have to pay for the Pluevalue we gave to CASIO

Why the hell did you do that ?

edit: is it a f*****g april fool ?

[Orwell]

Hah... Right in the trap. Really pwned.
Nice job

[Andy.Davies]

Mwahhahahhhahah

http://www.pwned.nl/

[CrimsonCasio]

lol, it scared me too, i read the first sentence or two, ran to the admin forum, then ran back to see what the reactions were... that was a good one though huh?

if we ever do get a more official status from casio it wont be that one sided

[Bob Vila]

heh, it was a very good one

i had completly forgotten it was april fool's

[Daruosh]

April Fool????
Hey guysss? Was that april fool????

[C@siomax]

haha the www.pwned.nl i perfectly know this vid i've seen it so mny times ..

[Daruosh]

It was pretty cool. =))

[Andy.Davies]

@Daruosh:

it is traditional on the 1st of April to do practical jokes to people and yell APRIL FOOLS afterwards!

i got my dad this morning, i came back from work (night shift ) and he was comming downstarits, so i just said to him: "are the cars headlights meant to be on?", as he rushed outside to switch them off/check battery, i called to him: "Oh by the way, April Fools"

thankfully he saw the funny side

[Daruosh]

Great. I didn't know that.

[betoe]

All was ok except by the 5k USD , i didnt knew about the april fools but i tought it must be a joke. Thanks to andy for doing me less ignorant , he told me via AIM about this day (also ross too).

[octobclrnts]

Wow, that was a good one guys. I kept reading and thinking to myself..."this really bites..." I couldn't understand why a thing like this would be done. It just seemed like we were giving up all of our hard earned freedom and respect as a casio calculator community. Once again, good one

[huhn_m]

go you, eh? I thought I could catch you with that.

It's a pretty scarry thought Anyways we would NEVER EVER sign such a thing. Nothing that would have such huge drawbacks to the community would ever get our agreement. Have a nice day and no,

Gabe Newell is neither dead nor is he leaving valve

[casiokingdom]

@admins, i think you should delete this announcement in the Forum News Forum. It may confuse new members.

[huhn_m]

Done