From: "Damian Yerrick" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: Subject: Re: fprintf() and using under graphic modes Lines: 44 Organization: Pin Eight Software X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Message-ID: X-Trace: +rnM+kJK2ajvr+76mEr3IVbz8ZhneC5BLA/xIOxSSc3zCrSYz7IW7Ootna9cc4uy+qk1Xuac75+7!zpKsZIrHwdpMJxFcJUMZizNUVDpk6NXnSbHiNcIyAkYx4rOWUjVZ1MdTrOT8uWTvwrh9acnp X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:03:22 GMT Distribution: world Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:03:22 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com "Shawn Hargreaves" 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