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From: ray@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP
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Subject: Basement Boys/Prism Software
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Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 21:17:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  1 21:17:19 1987
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Reply-To: ray@j.cc.purdue.edu (Ray Moody)
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I am posting this for my roommate.

In reference to a request for info about Basement Boys and Prism Software,
Prism Software has hit the skids... a recent (maybe the latest) issue of Info
magazine has a mentioning of them filing for bankruptcy.  I did some beta-
testing for them, and the phone number which I have to call them is no longer
in service.  Apparently they are gone for good.  I want to stress that I haven't
heard anything from them directly, though.

Does anyone know if the parameter disk they were supposed to release in May
ever made it out?  I sent in several parameters and would like to know if they
ever "saw the light of day", so to speak.

Joe Peter, co-creator of Superkit, is now working for Computer Mart, the people
who make the Kracker Jax parameter disks and copying utilities.  I have their
latest catalog, and it looks like their stuff is at least as good as Prism's &
Basement Boys' was/is.  I might mention that in my opinion the days of nibblers
that will copy "anything" are long past... parameters are the only reasonable
way that most of the current protected stuff can be backed up.

A friend of a friend reportedly has Fast Hack'em v5.0 (I haven't seen it myself)
which I have heard may have the 1571 modules fixed.  I will post with further
info when I see it for myself.


Kent D. Sullivan                  ihnp4!pur-ee!corvair