Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!ceej From: ceej@pawl.rpi.edu (Chris J Hillery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: NoiseTracker V2.0 out! Message-ID: Date: 9 Aug 90 08:33:45 GMT References: Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 36 Well, as expected, the demand for this program has already been great (17 requests in one day and 3 more came in while I was responding to those!) That's fine; it's no work to hit and ~r nt20.luu to send anyone a copy, so keep asking! Now, I will say this: I did NOT know that SoundTracker was a copyrighted and commercial product, and in fact I still don't know this. NoiseTracker never claimed to be anything other than a derivative of SoundTracker (and, indeed, later versions of SoundTracker claim to be based on some versions of Noise- Tracker; it's all pretty confusing), and the docs I got with SoundTracker 2.5 say right out "This is based on MasterSoundTracker V1.0 by TIP/PROPHETS and mainly on Soundtracker V2.2 by Unknown/D.O.C". I don't know if there's some copyright violation buried in here somewhere or not; the impression I always got was that some cracker out there wrote a demo-maker program and a bunch of other crackers got ahold of it and improved on it. Whether or not the authors were pirates of any kind (let's face it, this was originally at least designed to compose music for group "demos" and crack screens) has nothing to do with this PROGRAM being pirated. So, until I hear some evidence of this being an illegal program, I'll keep sending to folk; keep on asking! I'd like to get this program around so people will write some good music for the Amiga (and if they do, I'd like to get a copy!). (Please note that I do, truly, say this in all innocence; if someone out there can show me that this isn't distributable, maybe even someone connected with any original version, please DO let me know and I will, of course, stop sending it out.) Enjoy all! -- //..is|While 1 DO|Erin,Erin,where are|Art of Noise space| -- Ceej (= \X/there| Fork; |you? /-----------.-^------------------|ceej@pawl.rpi.edu AMIGAany|----------^-----|Cebhq gb or|Reclaimer:Hey!That's| gmry@mts.rpi.edu (=other?|HOW DO YOU FEEL.|Yvoreny! (=|mine! Bring it back!|aka Chris Hillery