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From: Sullivan@cup.portal.com (kevin lee smathers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Software Development And Piracy (somewhat lengthy and hot s
Message-ID: <12449@cup.portal.com>
Date: 11 Dec 88 03:04:18 GMT
References: <1034@hub.ucsb.edu> <1340@leah.Albany.Edu>
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>In article <1034@hub.ucsb.edu>, hbo@sbphy.ucsb.edu (Howard B. Owen) writes:
>>    Brenner's point that most of the comp.sys.amiga folks are professionals
>> with larger than average Amiga hardware budgets is well taken. Personally,
>> I feel like I fall through a crack in the middle of CBM's marketing strategy.
>> I like my hard disk and extra RAM, but I want to run the fast games too.
>> I don't want to have to give up one for the other, but it seems that in
>> many cases they are mutually exclusive.
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>Well maybe you people are too serious for Dungeon Maser in that case. Or
>Starglider  II. Both to me are marvelous games, and if your complaining,
>then you're just nitpicking and you'll never be happy anyway. You  can't
>have everything...
>-- 
>What about technology, computers, .------------------. J.A.Cisek
>nuclear fusion?  I'm terrified of |Spectral Fantasies| jac423@leah.albany.edu
>radiation, I hate the television. `------------------' jac423@rachel.albany.edu

On the contrary, I am quite happy with most of the sofware I am currently
running.

Here are some examples of enjoyable games.  With all of the programming
expertise that went into DM, please don't tell me that they *couldn't* have
left it unprotected even if they had wanted to:

Bard's Tale
Moria
Shanghai
Infocom Adventures (all of them)
(Moria is listed above, and is somewhat *more* complex than DM.  It is 
 absurd to claim that programs such as DM can't be made to coexist with
 the operating system when something as complex as Moria does, and
 doesn't have a paid staff for development.)

-kls

                           -Sullivan Segall
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