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From: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu (JIM GRAHAM)
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Subject: Re: "Demos" and piracy
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Date: 10 Jul 90 20:57:26 GMT
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>how can these same people incessantly search for "The Red Sector demo" or
>the "Champs demo" or whatever others there are.
> 
>I have seen many of these "demos" and they are indeed, quite impressive
>both in graphics and sound. HOWEVER, these "demos" are stuck on the boot
>block of pirated disks by pirates. 

>What is most ridiculous is the many FTP sites that carry these demos, and
>that people on the net constantly ask about them. 

Gee, I was not aware these "demos" were "pirated". I'm not disagreeing
with you here, is just didn't know.

From what I've experienced, most of these things are glitzy graphics/
sound oriented hacks that really don't do anything but show off the
Amiga's abilities.  Most appear to use the Copper rather heavily.

What demos in particular are "pirated" as you say?  

Also, when I've downloaded some of these, I'm darned lucky to get them 
to run at all.  I've YET to see the Red Sector "demo" run, only because
I cannot get my amiga to recognize Puttrax (the uncompressing utility)
as an object module.

-> ->Disclaimer: IMHO, all of my opinions belong to ME.<- <-
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