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- From: dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 01:58:44 GMT
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- On 9 Apr 1996 06:52:09 GMT, nahender@prairie.NoDak.edu (Nathanael J
- Henderson) wrote:
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- >David Corn (dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com) wrote:
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- >: Suffice to say it's a LOT easier to pirate one 512k ROM and 6 880k
- >: floppies vs what - 24 or so 1.44M floppies...
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- > Surprisingly, pirated goods being distributed on CD aren't that rare.
- >:-) For the average 'pirate' (somebody that knows somebody with a copy,
- >or decides to get a copy off a public or work machine) copying off 24-odd
- >floppies is indeed much easier than trying to figure out how to read out
- >or clone ROMs, then figure out how to use them on another machine.
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- Granted, but those who would try to use an Amiga from another platform
- via UAE obviously have the software to do so...
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