From:	"Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Musenet@pineight.8m.com>
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"Shawn Hargreaves" <SHargreaves AT acclaimstudios DOT co DOT uk> wrote in message
news:F77915E7F086D31197F4009027CC81C90DC43E AT probe-2 DOT as-london DOT acclaim DOT com...

D**n. You work for Probe. Did you work on Forsaken?

> Or perhaps they had in fact licensed UniVBE from SciTech for
> distribution along with the game, and this utility was simply the
> process by which you registered your legal copy of it?

Good point. Check the crack.exe (or whatever it's called)
for some Copyright SciTech message.

> And I do know for a fact that Nintendo managed to ban Bung
> Enterprises from importing the Doctor64 (an N64 game copying
> device) into the USA. There was nothing illegal about the product
> itself, but it was banned on the grounds that it was intended to be
> used for making illegal copies, and had no other legitimate purpose.

Except as a development aid in creating amateur N64 platform
programs.

> Quite apart from the legality of the issue, it certainly isn't what
> SciTech had in mind when releasing their program, and I think not
> a nice thing to do on moral grounds. I'm a big fan of not having to
> pay for my software, but it seems a shame if you are taking this so
> far as to go around stealing programs from other people. That will
> just result in a climate where everyone is paranoid and secretive
> about their work: the exact opposite of the GNU-style freedom that
> gives you rights and knowledge as well as just saving you money. If
> you don't want to pay for a commercial program, why not just don't
> use it, or even better, get stuck in and write a free replacement
> of your own? (note: http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/freebe/index.html
> is trying to do exactly that, and if every programmer who has a
> graphics card would just spend some time to make sure their card is
> supported by it,

NeoMagic's MagicGraph display subsystem (on Acer
TravelMate laptops) works in all modes under DOS but
(according to test.exe) doesn't have any hardware acceleration. Any takers?


Damian Yerrick

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