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- From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
- Subject: I need Disk Muncher 1.0 for backups!
- Message-ID: <viking.711948423@vincent1.iastate.edu>
- Summary: Wasn't it freeware to begin with?
- Keywords: legal, moral, ethical?
- Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 03:27:03 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- You legal hacks are going to love this one. I just purchased an
- old game from a guy. I've the original disks, of course, but the company
- is out of business and hence if one hoses I'm hosed. Fine, that's what
- backups are for. I can't crack the damn game!
-
- Don't get me wrong, I'm no 12-year-old cracker with a IIe and a
- funny nickname on a local BBS. I'm a site administrator, well into my
- twenties, a senior in college, and all I want to do is run this game from
- backups. Simple, right?
-
- Copy II Plus 9.0 won't touch it -- it actually hangs if I try a
- bit copy with synch turned on. Sector copies barf, disk copies with format
- are another no-go. The game was made in '85, so I thought to myself, "Self,
- why not use an old copy program for an old game?"
-
- The best copy program I had for this stuff was Disk Muncher 1.0,
- but I no longer have it. As I remember, this was freeware though I think
- somebody did claim to have written it. Are programs like this considered
- copyright and hence illegal for trade, even though they are essentially
- freeware or shareware but never officially released as such?
-
- If you think it's alright to upload, get in contact with me. I'd
- think a ShrinkIt archive (or even Daltons!) of a disk with this program on
- it would be fairly small and should easily go through my mail spooler.
-
- Are there any other programs, utilities, or even games like this
- that might be worth tossing in the archives or on the binaries? There's
- a thread in alt.folklore.computers, and I'd kill to get an original of
- SpaceWar on the PDP-1, let alone something like Apple Panic.
-
- <Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 |"There'll be angels on Ariels in leather>
- <z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu | and chrome, Ridin' down from heaven >
- <viking@iastate.edu | just to carry me home." -- R. Thompson >
- < ISU thinks I need more education, which they provide for a fee. >
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