diff --git a/1985/shapiro/.gitignore b/1985/shapiro/.gitignore
index e7e057d8a..9912ed2e4 100644
--- a/1985/shapiro/.gitignore
+++ b/1985/shapiro/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 shapiro
-shapiro.alt
diff --git a/1985/shapiro/Makefile b/1985/shapiro/Makefile
index 8838f2dab..db2172a0b 100644
--- a/1985/shapiro/Makefile
+++ b/1985/shapiro/Makefile
@@ -112,8 +112,8 @@ OBJ= ${PROG}.o
 DATA=
 TARGET= ${PROG}
 #
-ALT_OBJ= ${PROG}.alt.o
-ALT_TARGET= ${PROG}.alt
+ALT_OBJ=
+ALT_TARGET=
 
 
 #################
diff --git a/1985/shapiro/README.md b/1985/shapiro/README.md
index 6b5534440..b0bb3ec5f 100644
--- a/1985/shapiro/README.md
+++ b/1985/shapiro/README.md
@@ -18,8 +18,7 @@ make all
 ## Judges' remarks:
 
 As submitted, this program was 3 lines (2 of defines and 1 of code).
-To make news & mail happy we split the last line into 7. The file
-[shapiro.alt.c](shapiro.alt.c) is the original version.
+To make news & mail happy we split the last line into seven lines.
 
 This program was selected for the 1987 t-shirt collection.
 
diff --git a/1985/shapiro/shapiro.alt.c b/1985/shapiro/shapiro.alt.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 43821bb7e..000000000
--- a/1985/shapiro/shapiro.alt.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-#define P(X)j=write(1,X,1)
-#define C 39
-int M[5000]={2},*u=M,N[5000],R=22,a[4],l[]={0,-1,C-1,-1},m[]={1,-C,-1,C},*b=N, *d=N,c,e,f,g,i,j,k,s;main(){for(M[i=C*R-1]=24;f|d>=b;){c=M[g=i];i=e;for(s=f=0; s<4;s++)if((k=m[s]+g)>=0&&k<C*R&&l[s]!=k%C&&(!M[k]||!j&&c>=16!=M[k]>=16))a[f++ ]=s;if(f){f=M[e=m[s=a[rand()/(1+2147483647/f)]]+g];j=j<f?f:j;f+=c&-16*!j;M[g]= c|1<<s;M[*d++=e]=f|1<<(s+2)%4;}else e=d>b++?b[-1]:e;}P(" ");for(s=C;--s;P("_"))P(" ");for(;P("\n"),R--;P("|"))for(e=C;e--;P("_ "+(*u++/8)%2))P("| "+(*u/4)%2);}