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From: clcp16@vaxa.strath.ac.uk ((Stewart C. Russell))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Oktalyzer
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.162639.10237@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Feb 91 16:26:38 GMT
References: <1991Feb19.004024.5199@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Feb19.122230.10213@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> <1991Feb19.224122.4312@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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In article <1991Feb19.224122.4312@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
> In article <1991Feb19.122230.10213@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> clcp16@vaxa.strath.ac.uk ((Stewart C. Russell)) writes:
>>In article <1991Feb19.004024.5199@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>>> 
>>>   I need a Oktalyzer/Startrtrekker player. I ftped Oktasongs.lzh, Okta-robot-
>>> rap.lzh and Oktaplayer.lzh from ab20. Oktaplayer will play 
>>> Robot Rap, but it won't play the 6 newer songs in Otasongs.lzh because
>>> they are made with the newest version of Oktalyzer.
>>> 
>>>   Could someone email me oktalyzer uuencoded or tell me where to ftp the
>>> player from.
>>
>>Oktalyzer is a commercial product, produced and sold in Germany.
> 
>   That's all well and good, but how in the hell do a play Oktalyzer
> songs? If I am required to purchase Oktalyzer just so I can hear
> the songs produced by it, then it's a doomed product. Oh well, I'll
> just wait for European hacker groups to make a Oktalyzer clone that
> does what Oktalyzer does, and more.

    	"If I am required to buy Lattice C just so I can compile..."
Sorry, your argument doesn't wash. All clones ("derivative works") are 
copyright too.

>   Oktaplayer DOES NOT play songs produces by the commercial version of
> Oktalyzer.

All versions are commercial.

Does StarTracker not handle Okta files?

	Stewart C. Russell
	University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland