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- From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: Old Software
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <Jim_Johnson.05xt@abcd.Houghton.MI.US>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 11:56:46 EST
- Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch
- Lines: 26
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- The reason I sold all my Atari 8bit stuff almost a year ago was that the
- excitement was gone. I had moved a few hundred miles from an active user
- group (SPACE - St. Paul - and I've seen the trails of several of my
- co-members floating through here). There apparently was NO one locally
- involved with the 8bits (now there appears to be a couple Michigan Tech
- students). I could not obtain any decent new software (I'm not into games
- which is what most of the privately developed stuff appeared to be). And
- finally, it was a major pain continually transfering data and text files
- between MS-DOS and SpartaDOS.
- So I sold my stuff and bought a portable DOS machine which I use in my
- consulting business. In some ways I have more power, but in many ways I
- have much less.
-
- At any rate, the 8bit is now an orphan. Rather than pirate the old
- software, what I would suggest is group(s) approach copyright holders and
- see if they will sell their rights to the group - cheap. The publishers
- obviously aren't getting anything in sales - so maybe they will let it go.
- In some cases it will probably be tough trying to find out who owns the
- copyrights. There's my
- two cents (BTW, my DOS machine can produce a cent symbol - but it turns out
- to be the Atari EOL character - hardly useful here, right?)
-
- -- Via DLG Pro v0.995
-
- Jim Johnson-
- *** Remember, they're only tools - Not a way of life! ***
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