Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/06/10/01:49:35
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997 16:22:47 GMT, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar> wrote:
>William Lachance <billl AT synapse DOT net> wrote:
>> Alternately, use SEAL!
>But: do you have the sources of SEAL? Can you use it for Shareware?, I guess No
>and No.
You can't use MIDAS for shareware either without getting a separate
license. Shareware programs are really quite problematic for us: In most
cases, the programs never even get completed, or maybe sell a total of 10
registrations or something. Then again, Doom was shareware. For the first
case, letting people use MIDAS for free in shareware programs would make
sense, as there isn't really any money involved. In the Doom case,
however, there really isn't any difference between shareware and
commercial programs, except that the shareware program would bring better
royalties to the developers.
We are trying to decide what to do about shareware licenses in the near
future, but things are a bit on hold about that for the moment. We get
quite a few requests for MIDAS licenses for a "crap shareware game that
probably won't sell anything", and are trying to figure out what to do
about them. Check back in a couple of weeks or so. Meanwhile, I suggest
everybody developing such a program to consider just releasing it as free
software - you'll save yourself a lot of headaches, and get a lot more
satisfied users.
As for Allegro support, MIDAS really won't like Allegro messing up with
the timer. I have to agree this is not too user-friendly, especially as
MIDAS requires Allegro for the IRQ wrappers :) I'll probably add an
Allegro timer mode at some point, which would use the Allegro timer
functions for the music playback timing, but I don't know when I'll have
time to work on that.
Petteri
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