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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Those reconditioned 1000s
Message-ID: <4044@well.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 26-Sep-87 05:23:21 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 26 05:23:21 1987
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In article <1767@crash.CTS.COM> amiguy@pnet01.CTS.COM (Sean Wolfe) writes:
>  Now that the 1000's will be getting cheaper, this will allow the C64 scum to
>buy them.  [...]  I mean the kids (eg 13-17 years) who do nothing but pirate
>software [...]  Every software pirate would add his name to the program
>like "Cracked by blah, blah...."

	You and me both.  This possibility occurred to me, too.  As a 64
owner (no, I haven't thrown it away yet), I used to grab stuff, too, if it
was offered to me.  I also used to know a few people who did this out of
hand i.e. cracking programs, putting their own coverpage on it, and tossing
out there.

	You have to admit, some of them were pretty creative.  One that
sticks out in my mind was a pirate version of C64 PacMan.  The pirate's
coverpage came up, then a message appeared saying, "Say, don't you have
anything better to do than sit there and play PacMan?"

>This I think crippled the software industry for the C64.

	No disrespect intended, but I believe you know not whereof you
speak.  There are *TONS* of 64's out there.  Software companies to this day
will release a version of a program for the PC and the 64 first, then move
on to other version, if sales on those two versions justify the expense of
porting the program.  This is why you haven't seen M.U.L.E. for the Amiga
yet.  EA doesn't think it's worth the effort.

>I hope these types of people don't move in to the Amiga community.
>I wasn't so "honest" about <C>right's myself back then, but having an
>Amiga has made me realize how important it is to support the industry [...]

	You and me both, again.  Not to mention the fact that some of the
people writing these programs are now my personal friends.  I see the work
they put into it.  I want to see them rewarded.  So I buy it.

	BTW, I wouldn't worry too much about the immature computer
population yet.  The A500 is still just expensive enough that the purchaser
has to stop and think about it, and come to a rational decision.  The
immature people will, out of reflex, avoid the system until they can buy it
with their grocery money.

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