> open the box of Windows Nt 4.0 to read the EULA , at which point it tells
> you that once you have opened this package you have aggreed to said EULA.
Which was found invalid by at least one court, because you could not read
what you agreed to before (implicitly) agreeing with it. Next? :-)
From: Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>And just remind me how long it took to crack lemmings :)
>BTW - Don't forget that Defender is only £7.50 - together with two
>incredible other games!
Wee I kind of cheated on that. I just rewrote E-Copy 1 (the one that
was specifically written to
From: Andrew Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> It seems my code was reading the status register, and jumping for LINEint
> correctly, but performing the wrong test for FRAMEints and jumping to the
> FRAMEint handler iff the corresponding status register bit was high.
>
> My guess is that on a real Sam,
Wee, don't you think it's time you subbed to Blitz?!!!
David!
-Original Message-
From: Tim Paveley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Date: 08 April 1999 19:31
Subject: Sam Coupe Scrapbook - whats missing?
>Thanks for using NetForward!
>http://www.netforward.com
>v^v^v^v
And just remind me how long it took to crack lemmings :)
BTW - Don't forget that Defender is only £7.50 - together with two
incredible other games!
David L
-Original Message-
From: Simon Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Date: 08 April 1999 19:02
Subject: Re: SimCo
- Original Message -
From: Ian Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: 09 April 1999 15:59
Subject: Re: SimCoupe & protected disks
> On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 05:13:25PM +0100, Chris White wrote:
> > your are not aloud to create a copy of anything , without the copyright
> > owners permissi
> >your are not aloud to create a copy of anything , without the copyright
> >owners permission.
>
> That's wrong, or at least, wrong in England (I think).
>
> Most of the things you'll find in the average software license agreement
> are unenforcable in the UK. It's protection by intimidation, the
> anyway... backups are only illegal when its specifically said that its
> illegal... otherwise its fine innit?... i mean, some software does say
> that your not allowed, but most doesnt - and none that i can remember on
> the Sam ever did having said that, disks protected with the special
> d
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 05:13:25PM +0100, Chris White wrote:
> your are not aloud to create a copy of anything , without the copyright
> owners permission.
I refer the honorable gentleman to Section 50A of The UK Copyright (Computer
Programs) Regulations 1992, which gives you the legal right to ma
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 10:27:52PM +0100, Andrew Collier wrote:
> At 12:21 pm +0100 7/4/99, Ian Collier wrote:
> >Or get a lead which converts SCART into three phono plugs (stereo audio and
> >composite video) since that's pretty much guaranteed to work as long as you
> >have phono sockets on your
At 4:37 pm +0100 8/4/99, Si Owen wrote:
>Don't some demos also use strange formats to allow more data to be packed
>onto disks, rather than to protect them. Anyone have any samples?
The only full-disk demos I'm currently aware of are The Lyra 3 by ESI and
the Juggler by Codigo. Both of them use t
>> > I'm affraid about copyright laws.
>>
>> I'm no legal expert, but isn't it just considered a backup copy as long as
>> you still own the original version?
>
>your are not aloud to create a copy of anything , without the copyright
>owners permission.
That's wrong, or at least, wrong in England
First of all, apologies for the attachment, but it's absolutely tiny and it
might help with investigating one of SimCoupe's remaining inaccuracies.
Basically, in one of the bits of code I've been doing recently I made a
very silly error in the interrupt handler, which by fluke works on a real
Sam
> > your are not aloud to create a copy of anything , without the copyright
> > owners permission. Having a backup of a disk thats not used for illegal
> > purposes , is like have a gun and NEVER thinks of firing it (Pointless)
>
> Yers. My reaction to that, though, is "tough". Especially with Sa
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999 01:52:14 +0100 Fri, 9 Apr 99 18:15:42 BST, "Paul
Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Any objections to me putting this as part of my Sam pages on the Net?
>
>Yes. If you put the list online, remove my email address beforehand.
Mine as well please.
Chris White wrote:
> Private Email me the Disk layout (What tracks are what) , just for my
> curiousity
Coincidentally I'd just contacted Persona about buying a few software titles
to play with (I've hardly got any games!) and Defender was one of them.
Sounds like a good challenge for some point
> If soomeone made a protection, he probably wanted us not to copy these
> diskettes. I'm affraid about copyright laws.
You're afraid about copyright laws, but you advocated putting Fred issues
online?!
Small hint: the authors of any programs still, as far as I know, own the
copyright to any us
> your are not aloud to create a copy of anything , without the copyright
> owners permission. Having a backup of a disk thats not used for illegal
> purposes , is like have a gun and NEVER thinks of firing it (Pointless)
Yers. My reaction to that, though, is "tough". Especially with Sam's
extrem
> Any objections to me putting this as part of my Sam pages on the Net?
Yes. If you put the list online, remove my email address beforehand.
Paul
--
Thought for the day:
Bagpipes (n): an octopus wearing a kilt.
> > I really don't understand why "so perfect" WinNT so stupidly hangs.
and it doesn't even do it in style like the speccy & sam back in
those good old days you got flashing cubes of doom now its just
black at least back then you *knew* something was up (..bahh, when i
was a lad etc...
> >At some point I added a '-fullscreen 1' flag to the command-line options,
> >but I can't remember whether the last version on the site actually has it
> >(it'll be in the next one of course!).
>
> That flag does maximized window, not fullscreen!!!
i really no idea what im talking about, but i
>>Before Malcolm's untimely death he informed me that E-Copy (version 3 I think)
>>failed to copy the protection I created for Defender... I tried *all* the PC
>>copiers I could find and they failed too.
>Have you tried Cyclone (using the cart) on an Amiga then? :-)
>Dave
I haven't. I'm not fa
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