From: lintux AT dds DOT nl (Wilmer van der Gaast) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Animation Utility Date: 14 Feb 2000 00:47:14 GMT Organization: WorldOnline - The Internet Communication Company Lines: 50 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: vp177-199.worldonline.nl X-Trace: nereid.worldonline.nl 950439855 956 195.241.177.199 (13 Feb 2000 11:04:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster AT worldonline DOT nl NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Feb 2000 11:04:15 GMT User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.7 (UNIX) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 08:57:16 +0600 (LKT), Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote: > > > BTW why do you need a free animation utility? You can always download some > > > shareware animation package and crack it if you find you like it ;-) > > > > > Naughty boy... That's not allowed! Didn't you know that? :) > > Not allowed by who? ;-) Hmm... Let me gues... The author??? The law??? The problem is when you want to distribute the program you've made. Might always be possibly that the author discovers it, and he is allowed to sue you, and that'll cost you lots of money. But to come a little bit back on-topic, in PCGPE you can find the description of the FLI file format, and you'll see it's pretty easy. You can just code it yourself, and I think own-code is much better than somebody else's code. > I know this maybe a bit off topic but... > If software authors price there products exorbitantly there is no choice > for poor home users like us but to get a shareware or trial version of the > product and either crack it oursleves or run a crack that someone else has > kindly provided. That's why you use DJGPP, probably? > Fr ex there is a pretty good utility caled VMWARE > which enables LINUX users to run WINDOWS (yes, the whole OS) as a virtual > machine under X/LINUX or vice versa. But it is sloooooow. > A very useful program one has to admit. But guess how much it is priced? > over 300 US$ !!!??? IIRC. Now who can afford that much money, and since > there is no equivalent free software available (WINE is not as good as > VMWARE) the only choice was to crack it... :) But Wine is improving, it can run lots of games, and also Office97 IIRC. > Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me spread > :) C'mon people, who's going to help this one a little bit??? :) Greetings, -- Wilmer van der Gaast (lintux AT dds DOT nl) ICQ 55707076 Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me spread :)