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From: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
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Subject: Re: DreamGrafix (was re: What can you do if?)
Keywords: 3200, paint programs
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Date: 10 Apr 91 22:49:26 GMT
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In article <1332.apple.a2.net@pro-nbs> asong@pro-nbs.cts.com (Andi Song) writes:
>       Steve Chiang was asking about software copyrights and publishers'
>rights...hmmm...sounds like he's got a product almost ready to go, eh??

	Not quite.  It's getting there, anyway I asked, because we've
been chewing on this problem concerning piracy.  If we put as serial
number in the file, encrypted and all, how does this protect us?
We've thought about a very passive, install the master disk the very
first time the program is run off a hd or something, and it will write
a permanent patch to the program not to call that routine anymore...
but I'd like to see DreamGrafix uncopyprotected.  Our other idea was
to keep the price of the product low, to help convince people to buy
it and not copy it.  We'll see how it goes... 

>        "Coming Soon: DreamGrafix  3200 color power"
>
>        Uh, HOW soon is that? :) (Just kidding, I can't wait. That would be
>a truly AWESOME program that would blow the boxer shorts off Macintosh and
>IBM VGA!)

	I'd hate to give you a date and not be able to meet it. :P  I can
assure you the a lot of progress has been made on the program, and it
has grown and grown...  right now it is a 200k s16 file... and it's
not done.  I have some converted 3200 GIF's from the IBM (VGA)...
that'll take your breath away...  (why get gif's from macs... anyway.)
I'll put some up on comp.binaries.. sometime in the near future!

>        Keep up the good work, and let us know how soon your product is
>going to arrive!

	We will.  We're juggling full time student status, jobs and
DG... but it'll be out soon.



Steven Chiang                  Coming Soon:  DreamGrafix  3200 color power  
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