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From: NOWAKO09@SNYBUFVA.BITNET (APPLE //GS - THE POWER TO BE YOUR BEST)
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Subject: Is this Piracy?
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Date: 8 Nov 90 03:18:00 GMT
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        A friend of mine is a big time apple //e hacker and has lots of
good apple // stuff. One game that he borrowed to me was a text adventure
called Mind Wheel, I really enjoyed it and he said that Broderbund came out
with three or four of these 'electronic novels' (probably competing with
Infocom when this kind of game was hot).
        Now, about a month ago I was perusing the library here on campus and
came across an enourmous catalog/index of programs for just about every micro
ever made (it had stuff for Ohio Scientific and Aim-65!), so thinking about
this old text adventure I looked up Broderbund and it listed one more of these
'electronic novels' called Essex. I then called up Broderbund and have never
been treated like such sh*t before by a company (well maybe by the utility co.)!
   I was willing to PAY the FULL PRICE for this older game! I got an attitude fr
   om
the guy that said 'well, if you would get a REAL computer and buy REAL games
(i.e. expensive) you wouldn't have these problems'. He said that 1)They stopped
selling it in 87 and 2)That if I had an origional I could have sent in for
a BACKUP COPY! If I had it in the first place I wouldn't have called! In the
second place why couldn't they make me a copy if they had a master disk around
to make backups with? 5.25" floppies are now around .25 cents a piece, if
they had sold me a copy of the game for 25$ thats a *1000%* profit!
        The question is....if I find someone with this game and copy it - is
that piracy? I can't get it from the company that made it and its not sold
by any third party suppliers (I tried), so where the hell am I suppose to
get it if not from a copy?

                                                        - Infuriated in Buffalo