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- From: jonasth@bahnhof.se (Jonas Thorell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Piracy and the Amiga (was Re: AB3D II beats Quake....)
- Date: 30 Mar 1996 23:33:45 GMT
- Organization: Bahnhof Internet Access
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- >> Perhaps I'm the exception, but I have never once rec'd a version of any
- >> program (aside from PD utils) on a cover disk that remained on my HD
- >> for any length of time.
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- >Yeah, I probably shouldn't have made a sweeping generalisation like that
- >without saying that's exactly what it is. Of course, many full versions
- >of coverdisk packages are really poor.
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- >But others (Dir Opus 4, Cygnus Ed 3.5, for example) are very, very good
- >programs that will probably stay on many people's hard drives. And those
- >with both of those will probably not want another dir util or editor for
- >a long while. I wonder how many Dir Opus 4 coverdisk owners actually
- >upgraded to Dir Opus 5.
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- >Jolyon - Almathera
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- Perhaps not that many. I was tempted for a while until I got to try out #5.
- Who said that progress is good?
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- Amiga Owner Since '87 and proud of it!
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- A1200 + Blizzard 1230-III (50 Mhz), 2+8 Megabyte RAM, 1 Gig HD,
- 2x CD-ROM, SquirrelSCSI, Accex 28.8k Modem
- (did I forget something??)
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