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- From: finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (Finn Higgins)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Message-ID: <974.6679T902T1561@ak.planet.gen.nz>
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- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 03:59:40 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...
- >>
- >> 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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- We aren't interested in emulators, this started off as a discussion of how
- hard it is to copy a ROM, as opposed to 24 disks or a CD. ROMS are tough,
- CDs and disks can be compressed and sent accross a network.
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