RE: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-10 Thread Antoni Burguera
>> Perhaps you can take some info from the developers of DOOM for >> Spectrum. >> > >Alright, how do I contact them ? Look this page: http://www.arrakis.es/~tecnilin/spectrum.htm It is an spanish e-zine related to spectrum. There are some links to the spectrum versions of DOOM, Mortal Kombat III

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro
At 10:03 08/10/98 +0100, you wrote: >> I made this because of respect to the other programmers, >> to support them. If I really wanna play a "challenging" game >> I take my PSX... (sorry 4 that, but I am sure you'll understand). ;) > >Or one of the many console emulators ;-) > >Should anybody car

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread David Heremans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Should anybody care for a Wolfenstein on a MSX2 ?? > >We (C-TNG) are investigating the possibilities, but don't > expect > >something to see at Tilburg from it :-( > > Perhaps you can take some info from the developers of DOOM for > Spectrum. > Alright, how do I c

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread burguera
>Should anybody care for a Wolfenstein on a MSX2 ?? >We (C-TNG) are investigating the possibilities, but don't expect >something to see at Tilburg from it :-( Perhaps you can take some info from the developers of DOOM for Spectrum. Antoni Burguera [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSX Mailinglist. To

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread burguera
>Perhaps you can take some info from the developers of DOOM for >Spectrum. Ups... I have some problems with the web mail service that I'm using... my correct email IS NOT [EMAIL PROTECTED] My email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread David Heremans
Oberleithner Wolfgang wrote: > For myself, I bought a lot of original software everytime when > I visited a fair in the Netherlands. And there is more than > one game which I've played only once, and never again. > (There is even one which I have never played!) #) I know the problem. I have ev

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Oberleithner Wolfgang
> [CUT] > > >-MSX Club Power Replay- > > > [CUT] You know what I mean? For myself, I bought a lot of original software everytime when I visited a fair in the Netherlands. And there is more than one game which I've played only once, and never again. (There is even one which I have never played!)

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread MetalGear
De : Cas Cremers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date : vendredi 2 octobre 1998 12:02 [CUT] >-MSX Club Power Replay- > >No joke. Software of active groups is on the XTORY II CD rom (e.g. Akin) and >frankly, it pisses me off. Why can these people be so STUPID as to copy >software from the last surviving cod

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Mari van den Broek
Hello, >So sell something, you need both a seller and a buyer. I think Fony did a >good job selling FR, so the question is: Why did so few people buy it? >It's a good thing that FR is still sold (by you). But how many people >bought it? If it's still such a small group of people, there hasn't bee

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS! (but not ROM protections please!!)

1999-02-09 Thread Ramon Ribas Casasayas
On Sun, 02 Oct 1994 20:04:59 +0700, Nestor Soriano wrote: >>like a ROM cartridge as part of the package >And how can I put SCSI interface, memory [cut] > Please think other solution... 8-) And besides it will raise the costs of the game. And cause problems of distribution. Yeah, maybe it is the

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 01:30 PM 10/04/98 +0200, you wrote: >There are still some people who spent a lot of time and money in making >labels, manuals so they can sell a nice package... They don't make a lot of >money and are glad that they can pay their bills. Fony for example stopped >selling FR after the Tilburg fa

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Ramon Ribas Casasayas
On Sun, 4 Oct 1998 02:23:50 +0200, Collin van Ginkel wrote: >>] instead of making BAD software with "GOOD" >>]copy-protection... I still believe that if the price of the >>]software is low, more people will buy it instead of copying it! >>]You agree? >No I don't agree. At last fair in Tilburg

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Ricardo Jurczyk Pinheiro
At 14:38 02/10/98 -0200, you wrote: >> This is a rather serious complaint. Please react to this mail/news posting. >> Although I am ofcourse aware of the copying of software, and have said >> things about it before, now is as good a time as ever to talk about it. > > I agree !!! death to all the M

RE: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Antoni Burguera
>:make a nice booklet , a nice box ,disk labels etc.. This is the best thing that can be done. I _like_ games with a good manual. -- Antoni Burguera Burguera E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 9D-La Novena Dimensio http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dimension/9812 -- Mallo

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Laurens Holst
:You sure are broadcasting a lot of "teasers" for your game. Is there a demo :version or something available? Oh, do I??? Well, anyway, no demo is released yet, and it may take some time for it to come either. For the development is giong (way too) slow... And at the moment, _something_ is not w

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Mari van den Broek
Hello, >>] instead of making BAD software with "GOOD" copy-protection... I still >>] believe that if the price of the software is low, more people will buy it >>] instead of copying it! You agree? > >No I don't agree. At last fair in Tilburg we made the effort to sell >Fighter's Ragnarok from Del

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Mari van den Broek
Hello, >] I think it's better to stickl all available time in making GOOD software >] instead of making BAD software with "GOOD" copy-protection... I still >] believe that if the price of the software is low, more people will buy it >] instead of copying it! You agree? >How low do you think we

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Anonymous
At 09:03 PM 10/02/98 +0200, you wrote: >Every MSX-user knows this "rule" about 'do not copy things of active >groups'. So they won't copy it. The people who will copy it are mainly >emulator-users who won't buy it anyway. PC-games are much better and >cheaper. So to hell with the emulator-users a

RE: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Antoni Burguera
>I tried to react to them once with a not-so-nice email but the server >returned it to me. I have sended some emails to him, and I have no problem with the server. Try this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Antoni Burguera Burguera E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 9D-La Novena Dimensio http://www.geo

RE: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS! (but not ROM protections please!!)

1999-02-09 Thread Antoni Burguera
>What about a protection via joystick port, like Tetris 2? How is protected Tetris 2?? -- Antoni Burguera Burguera E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 9D-La Novena Dimensio http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dimension/9812 -- MallorcaWeb http://www.mallorcaweb.com http:

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Laurens Holst
I think copy-protections are bullshit. Every MSX-user knows this "rule" about 'do not copy things of active groups'. So they won't copy it. The people who will copy it are mainly emulator-users who won't buy it anyway. PC-games are much better and cheaper. So to hell with the emulator-users and j

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread NYYRIKKI
> Hellooo? Rafael Corrales? Are you isane, or what? Do you want to keep making > some money on MSX? Then try to SUPPORT the active coders, nitwit! (I'm > trying to remain decent. Yes, Parallax software has been pirated often > enough, but now the stuff is getting serious.) > > I am posting this

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Erik
Leonard Silva de Oliveira schreef: > Cas Cremers wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > This is a rather serious complaint. Please react to this mail/news posting. > > Although I am ofcourse aware of the copying of software, and have said > > things about it before, now is as good a time as ever to talk ab

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Collin van Ginkel
Hi all, >] instead of making BAD software with "GOOD" copy-protection... I still >] believe that if the price of the software is low, more people will buy it >] instead of copying it! You agree? No I don't agree. At last fair in Tilburg we made the effort to sell Fighter's Ragnarok from Delta-Z

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Alex Wulms
] I think it's better to stickl all available time in making GOOD software ] instead of making BAD software with "GOOD" copy-protection... I still ] believe that if the price of the software is low, more people will buy it ] instead of copying it! You agree? How low do you think we should go? As f

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Mari van den Broek
Hello, I believe you can't stop the copying of software... Some kinds of protection CAN damage yor disk-drive (the make a lot of noise when loading the game!)... and still these games are copied! > About disk copy protections : They arent uncopyable ... so why continue > with this ? I think tha

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Laurens Holst
:hardware protections will make the software too expensive for a small marketlike :MSX and if the can't copy it the will crack it. :the best protection is to give the software extra value. :make a nice booklet , a nice box ,disk labels etc.. :ask the player ,random, to type a word out of the book

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS! (but not ROM protections please!!)

1999-02-09 Thread Anonymous
Hello, >>I think that a hardware lock is much more efficient ! >What about a protection via joystick port, like Tetris 2? Good idea, badly planned... The keys deliverd by the games didn't fit in my Turbo-R (they ware TOO BIG!). The "key" was easy to open and in no time to reproduce... Why spen

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS! (fwd)

1999-02-09 Thread Anonymous
Hello, > This is a rather serious complaint. Please react to this mail/news posting. > Although I am ofcourse aware of the copying of software, and have said > things about it before, now is as good a time as ever to talk about it. I agree with what was said about copy protection, but i think th

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
At 02:38 PM 10/02/98 -0200, you wrote: > I think that the active MSX groups should form a council to control the >MSX software piracy on digital magazines and other electronic medias >like FTP and HTTP. I haven't seen many copies of software from active groups on WWW or FTP. I think CD-ROMs are

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Leonard Silva de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This is a rather serious complaint. Please react to this mail/news posting. > > Although I am ofcourse aware of the copying of software, and have said > > things about it before, now is as good a time as ever to talk about it.

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Leonard Silva de Oliveira
Cas Cremers wrote: > > Hi, > > This is a rather serious complaint. Please react to this mail/news posting. > Although I am ofcourse aware of the copying of software, and have said > things about it before, now is as good a time as ever to talk about it. I agree !!! death to all the MSX free-lo

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> Hi, > > This is a rather serious complaint. Please react to this mail/news posting. > Although I am ofcourse aware of the copying of software, and have said > things about it before, now is as good a time as ever to talk about it. > > I would like to file an "official complaint" against: > >

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS! (but not ROM protections please!!)

1999-02-09 Thread Nestor Soriano
>I think that the active MSX groups should form a council to control the >MSX software piracy on digital magazines and other electronic medias >like FTP and HTTP. Some software like games could use a sort of hardware copy >protection I agree with this but... >like a ROM cartridge as part of the

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
> This is a rather serious complaint. Please react to this mail/news posting. > Although I am ofcourse aware of the copying of software, and have said > things about it before, now is as good a time as ever to talk about it. > > I would like to file an "official complaint" against: > > -MSX Club

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Laurens Holst
:> I would like to file an "official complaint" against: :> :> -MSX Club Power Replay- I hate the things they do. And they still are posting advertizing-messages about it. :DON'T BUY THESE CD'S! BUT MAIL THE MAKERS, AND SHAKE THEM! Maybe they'll wake :up... I tried to react to them once with a

Re: Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha
> No joke. Software of active groups is on the XTORY II CD rom (e.g. Akin) and > frankly, it pisses me off. Why can these people be so STUPID as to copy > software from the last surviving coders? Companies who have abandoned the > MSX scene, okay, they aren't selling their stuff, but active group

Copy ethics? SUPPORT ACTIVE GROUPS!

1999-02-09 Thread Cas Cremers
Hi, This is a rather serious complaint. Please react to this mail/news posting. Although I am ofcourse aware of the copying of software, and have said things about it before, now is as good a time as ever to talk about it. I would like to file an "official complaint" against: -MSX Club Power Re