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From: RCH@cup.portal.com (Ric C Helton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Financial aspects of new 8 bit software
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Date: 25 Dec 88 20:52:33 GMT
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Charles Hughes [Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com] listed a few programs that
are great code, and ShareWare, including 850 Express!, Super ARC/unARC, DeTerm
and a couple of others...  These are programs written virtually for
free by the authors, and placed in the public domain in-so-far as they
require only credit via copyright, and no actual retail price.  
It is (usually) very good code, better oft-times than the offerings
of Atari and its third-party software developers... A fact that early on
Atari tried to capitalize on (heavy relations with Users Groups)
and now seems to brush aside as trivial...

As a programmer who has written a few utilities, or mods to other programs,
please, do this as a New Year's Resolution:

   Look through your software libraries for really good "Public Domain" or
ShareWare programs, and select a couple that are your favorite, or that
you use the most, and send the author $5 or $10.  That will *not* set you
back much, and it could make the difference between whether we'll see any
new terminal programs like DeTerm [just dl'ed it a couple nights ago from
GEnie and *love it*, even more than 850 Express...] and Bob Puff's ARC
utilities....  I am not a big game player, though I am sure there are
not a small number of ShareWare games out... But please, if Atari and its
developers won't come out with new product, support those that do!

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and make that resolution stick!  I am!

-Ric
                RCH@cup.portal.com
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