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- From: pyrus@netspace.net.au
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Blue Ribbon's B&P Pro
- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 09:06:26 GMT
- Organization: NetSpace Online Systems
- Message-ID: <4kbdi3$og7@otis.netspace.net.au>
- References: <NEWTNews.828176709.11817.mikicic@mikicic.mcs.net> <4jntlj$893@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- borton@students.uiuc.edu (borton scott andrew) wrote:
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- >mikicic@mcs.com wrote:
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- >: I have heard that MicroSoft bought out Blue Ribbon and then shut them down. =(
- >: Can anyone confirm this?
- >:
- >: Also, I heard that Bars & Pipes Pro went "freeware" and can be downloaded from
- >: Compuserve. What about all the plugins?
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- >: Can anyone tell me where, besides Compuserve, I can download B&P? Any FTP
- >: Sites or Web Pages? Can Compuserve's archives be reached through the internet
- >: without being a client?
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- >Bars & Pipes Pro and SuperJam! are both available on CompuServe...but
- >Blue Ribbon/Microsoft have explicitly stated that they are _free only for
- >CompuServe subscribers_. You cannot access CompuServe's archives without
- >being a CompuServe subscriber.
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- >Of course, there is no way to enforce this. I'm a CompuServe subscriber,
- >so I have legal copies, but there's nothing preventing someone from
- >putting these programs on their ftp site.
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- >--scott
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- >P.S. Microsoft did not "shut Blue Ribbon down"... Blue Ribbon merely does
- >not support the Amiga any more.
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- >_______________________________________________________________borton@uiuc.edu
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- I'm mortified by all the above. Bars & Pipes Pro 2 is one of the best
- reasons I have for keeping my Amiga.
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