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- Amiga the future is looking bleak :(
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- By Sigma Alpha
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- As you saw in the last issue Microprose are bailing out of the Amiga
- software developing scene, and they are not the only ones. Team 17 might
- be going as well. What once was a thriving business according to
- software houses is now not making enough money for them to stay.
-
- I'm sure you have read documents like this before woffeling on about
- pirate games taking money away from these companies. We ALL and I mean
- ALL at one time or another have come across some piece of software and
- though Hmmm yeah I like this why should I pay for something I have in my
- hand. The truth is YES it is taking the money away and it's showing by
- the amount of companies that are no longer making software for the Amiga
- so all the stories you have heard and disregarded ARE TRUE, and deep down
- you knew they are but thought I'm OK I have the latest game so what do I
- care if they loose £30. Well think to yourself if thousands of people
- thought the way you do then that is thousands of pounds of money down the
- drain as far at the companies are concerned.
-
- Well for all you pirating people out there this is a message form all us
- at Miggybyte:
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- ***** STOP FUCKING PIRATING GAMES AND UTILITITIES *****
-
- YOU ARE KILLING THE AMIGA
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- All of the editors of /\/\IGGYBYTE feel the same about this having
- lengthy discussions on the matter. These software houses that are moving
- to code for the PC, just what are they expecting to be different, there
- are pirates in all formats there is no way of getting away from this or
- is there?
-
-
- Here is a word to you Pirate BBS's out there, over the last few months
- dozens of BBS's have been raided. Now think of all the users that you
- have do you know if they are working for F.A.S.T? are you completely
- sure a user is not getting evidence of you dodgy dealings. It's no use
- you putting up one of your 'I have no responsibility for what goes on the
- bbs ' messages coz it don't matter shit. So why not just shut down and
- wipe your HD of any Pirated Warez. If you liked some of what you had
- then do what thousands of Loyal Amiga users do BUY THEM!
-
- To show how easy it is to get on to your bbs's one of our staff was set
- the task of finding as many Pirate bbs's and to get validated on them so
- he could have access to download warez.
-
- He logged onto a bbs that he found the number of in a pirated utility,
- and was allowed to join. A few days later he see an advertisement for
- two new bbs's on what is referred to as a 'wall this is a ansi screen
- where users can leave comments to fellow users. These bbs adverts
- included NUP's Or New User Passwords. These are required on these bbs's
- to join otherwise the bbs will log you off and not allow you any further
- into the system.
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- Now he had Three Pirate BBS numbers in Liverpool he was assuming a name
- that was well known in the scene world belonging to a hacker in a certain
- cracking firm. Within a week he was offered a post as a Co-Sysop as the
- Sysop was going On holiday, so he had full access to this persons Hard
- drivers that amounted to over 12 Gig. This included not just what is
- referred to as '0 day warez' but meg upon meg Of Hard Porn.
-
- Of course all warez that were downloaded were erased from his hard drive
- after looking through them. When doing this he came across half a dozen
- bbs adds in all kinds of archived formats. So from one number he got
- well over a dozen bbs numbers. So if he can do this within the space of
- two weeks don't you think that others can too? THINK ON.
-
- I've said it before i'll say it again, most of the people I know that
- have had pirate warez only do so because they do not have the amount of
- money to pay £30 for a game that can be lame and that they could probably
- find a better version in the PD libraries. I do not offer this as a
- excuse for pirating but there has to be a message in this somewhere for
- the software companies. Chances are that if they did reduce there prices
- they would sell more therefore making up the cost of making the price
- lower.
-
- After reading a transcript of an IRC chat with the creator of Directory
- Opus the other day it seem more companies are leaving the Amiga in
- droves. He said that he was might not code another version of Opus for
- the Amiga and that he had half completed coding a version for the PC but
- never finished.
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-
- This is VERY worrying news for the Amiga, but is this the only reason for
- the companies leaving, do they no something else. Maybe the news of
- Escom's Amiga company Amiga Technologies, selling of licenses to other
- companies to make Amiga's is making them unsteady on the future of our
- beloved machine.
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