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From: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Christopher Lishka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amegas And/Or Crystal Hammer?
Message-ID: <304@uwslh.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 88 23:07:32 GMT
References: <2078@antique.UUCP> <3475@killer.UUCP>
Reply-To: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Christopher Lishka)
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison, State Hygiene Lab
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In article <3475@killer.UUCP> davidg@killer.UUCP (David Guntner) writes:
>in article <2078@antique.UUCP>, cjp@antique.UUCP (Charles Poirier) says:
>> Sorry, but neither Amegas nor Crystal Hammers are in the public domain.
>> Amegas you can buy in the store.  Crystal Hammers is unreleased.
>
>Are you completely sure about this?  If so, where do you get this idea?  I'm
>really interested in finding out if it (Crystal Hammer) is or isn't.  I've
>looked through the code with a disk zap program, and it very plainly has the
>words "Demo Copy" (or something close to it) embedded in it.  This sure sounds
>like something that is distributable to me....
>                             --Dave

     Although it may have the words in it, who put them there is a
bigger issue.  I am sure that someone who has enough guts to upload
this program to a BBS could also go through the source looking for
some sort of message and change it to "Demo Copy".  And I wouldn't put
it past someone to do this either.

     From what has been posted to the net, Crystal Hammers seems not
to be in the Public Domain.  Based on the previous articles I informed
a friend on a local BBS that it was probably pirated, and the BBS
removed it from the collection.  I've seen this game, though, and if
it isn't public domain/sharware/whatever, I wish it would hit the
software stores RSN 'cause it really is something!

>David Guntner  UUCP: {ihnp4, codas}!killer!davidg  INET: davidg@killer.UUCP

					-Chris


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Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene <-lishka%uwslh.uucp@rsch.wisc.edu
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