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From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: No more Cinemaware stuff for Amiga !!!????
Message-ID: <9180.AA9180@heimat>
Date: 14 Oct 90 22:23:06 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Sneakers Computing
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In Message <1989Jul24.163632.23920@ddsw1.MCS.COM>, karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:

>I was at a SF convention a couple of months ago.  They had a "computer room",
>as some of them do.  Inside were three or four Amigas.
>
>Also inside were some THOUSAND 3.5" diskettes, with every program ever
>conceived for the Amiga on them.  And among them was not ONE original disk.
>NOT ONE.
>
>Every game, every application; they were all there.  Star Wars.  F18
>Interceptor.  Hacker.  Strip Poker.  Deluxe Paint II.  Etc.  All there.

>Every one loaded with a "cracked by byte bandit" or somesuch hi-res screen
>instead of the normal boot loader -- then the game would load normally.
>EVERY SINGLE ONE.  EACH ONE was copyable, and the people in the room didn't
>seem to care much what you did with the disks (ie: if you had a few blanks
>you could have taken nearly everything you wanted).

  WOW! What convention was this im sure alot of developers would like to
  attend it next time ;-)

  Sneakers


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