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From: bjornk@adebro.bula.se (Bjorn Knutsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: "Wicked GIANT Games Pack" - Piracy, or what?
Message-ID: <150@adebro.bula.se>
Date: 20 Jul 90 06:10:05 GMT
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In article <58321@bbn.BBN.COM> cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes:
>bjornk@adebro.bula.se (Bjorn Knutsson) writes:
>
>}When I booted the disk and tried some of the games I found out that
>}I recognized at least three of them as Freeware/Shareware programs
>}I've seen on the Fish disks and other places. I belive at least one
>}more game is a Shareware game, but I'm not sure. The games are:
>
>}Amoeba Invaders, Backgammon 1), Packman'87, Diablo 2) and Othello 3).
>
>
>I know about Diablo.  It is a *wonderful* game, and VERY non-free.  It
>is a commercial product by Classic Image.  The copyright on the floppy
>claims 1986 by Extended Software Co.  What a shame that it is getting
>ripped off: not copy protected, and a truly neat game.  Wasn't even
>very expensive if I rmember [although I've had it for a long time
>now].  I only have the original floppy right here, I can try to find some of
>the documentation and forward you things like the address of the folks that
>released the game if you care.

PLease do, if this is what I think it is, then they might want to be
informed. And, I will be writing an article about this (potential)
rip-off in the magazine I work for.

>   /Bernie\

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Bjorn Knutsson      <bjornk@adebro.bula.se>