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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Wanting to snub Emulators
Message-ID: <1990Nov3.032740.10695@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 3 Nov 90 03:27:40 GMT
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In article <1990Nov2.040936.29686@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> wieser@cs-sun-fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Bernhard Wieser) writes:
>There are two main points which people conveniently avoided.
>A MAJORITY OF AMAX USERS HAVE THE PIRATED SOFTWARE VERSION OF ROMS.
>CONVERTING A DISK TO AMAX FORMAT IS A CHANGE IN FORM COUNTER TO MOST
>SOFTWARE LICENSING AGREEMENTS.

	A majority of people using every program, including
yours, are using pirate version. So what does your statement
prove? That there are just as many Amiga criminals as Mac
criminals, etc.

>I don't support piracy (or pirates), and I believe clones/emus are theft.
>If Amax users buy the ROMs fine, they're hard to find.  If Amax
>users buy a Mac drive, fine.  I agree with whoever said I should
>state 'I do not support emulators', and just like unsupported
>machines and OS, I want to try realize this and stop execution before a user
>has the chance to hurt themselves.
>
	"Has a chance to hurt themselves" I don't get that one.
Anyone using an emulator accepts the risk that it might not be
perfect. However I'm willing to take that chance.
	There is one other thing to consider. People who have
pirated AMax don't get an adapter to use a Mac disk drive. Amiga
disk drive in a shared disk format can only hold 272K each,
making transfer from Mac<-->Amiga very difficult. This gives the
legitimate AMax valuable.

	-- Ethan

Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu

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