I agree with you, its a danger, I do hope that we will be able to get
something done before closing time but I intend to do just that if
it doesn't happen, I need to backup the games to online storage for
myself as it is, I won't distribute right now but it won't be to
much to do so.
Then again who knows.
if vb6 will stop working after win8 I guess if we have the entire
subsystem we could load it, I have the vb6 sp6 runtimes but they
won't install under 7 without compatability coming up at me when I
run the exe file.
At 04:43 AM 4/19/2013, you wrote:
Hi Tom.
You said it yourself, it's because! he's not offering support or
continuance of the software in the future that makes this different
from a closing down sale. also, I feel he is bein greedy because he
is not considdering the fact that unlike when any other shop closes,
you won't be able to get the stuff anywhere else in the future,
compatibility not withstanding. While I appreciate that he hasn't
the time to continue writing and supporting software, he could at
least give the tools to leave something to posterity rather than as
he appears to be squeezing as much prophit out of the situation on a
short term basis and not giving a dam about anyone else further down
the line. Indeed, if i! had put work into making such a great bunch
of games as Justin, I'd myself prefer people were free to play them
in the future rather than just trying to grab quick cash.
A great example of this is Eamon. in the year 2001, the Eamon users
club shut down since nobody had written anything new for the system
either freeware or commercial in 7 years, but it was all collected
onto the website. Now, 12 years later, frank is rewriting the system
into Eamon deluxe, and the full source code is available, meaning
that people like me who never had original systems back in the 80's
are still very free to play eamon adventures, even on a completely
different os to what they were built on.
We've seen examples of this in the accessible games community with
Dan Zingaro, Terraformers, Self destruct, savage gammet and indeed
the pb games, so there is plenty of pressident.
I do agree asking Justin's opinion might be a good idea on this, but
if he maintains his view, then it wouldn't surprise me if people do!
distribute the bundle of the bsc software after the company has shut
down just to give everyone the chance to play such classics, even if
mucking about with vb compatibility is needed thanks to microsoft's
scummy update practices.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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