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- From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
- Subject: Re: Announcing CHARITYWARE: The best cruncher on C64 ever!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.041353.7858@netcom.com>
- Organization: Foxes 'R' Us - Seven locations to serve you
- References: <1993Jan5.033737.10774@news.tu-graz.ac.at> <1ibropINNo9r@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1993Jan5.223041.4197@news.tu-graz.ac.at>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:13:53 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- schuetz@fm11ap01.tu-graz.ac.at (Alexander Schuetz) writes:
-
- >>>Do some guys remember the (quite wellknown) DARKSQUEEZER? Yes? Good.
-
- >>Never heard of it before, and I am our user groups founder. Must have
- >>been before my time.
-
- >Okay, but then you must have been off the scene or off anyone for a bloody
- >long time. *EVERYBODY* knows Darksqueezer, it was released in 1988 and
- >people still use it heavily for crunching their demos, programs, whatsoever.
-
- Programmers of demos and such are in the vast minority of C64 owners,
- and also in the vast minority of people who read this group. I myself
- was a heavy programmer of the C64 at one time, and I never heard of
- DarkSqueezer, although I can guess that it's some sort of executable
- file cruncher. But saying that EVERYBODY should know about it is just
- plain wrong. The fact is that very few people know about crunchers.
-
- >>By requiring an REU, you have limited the audience for 'your' product.
-
- >I have not limited the audience. The computer memory is limiting ME!
-
- The number of people who own REU's is very small compared to the number
- of people who own C64's. You *have* limited your audience.
-
- >there is little I can do, except to use two disk drives.
-
- Won't that be a little slow? No, make that *very* slow.
-
- >My cruncher is *BY NO MEANS* an arcer. He is intended to crunch executable
- >files, preferably machine code ones, thats why my cruncher asks for a
- >start address.
-
- Now that you have explained it, more people will know what you're talking
- about.
-
- Now for the question that Mike was trying to ask you: If this program
- uses code that was created by someone else (DarkSqueezer), then how can
- you call it your program and sell it?
-
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