| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 2 May 2001 at 10:24:05 |
| Subject: | Re: old , classic, games |
hi,
> Well well well, if it isn't Mr. "I downloaded The Mexican with
> limewire, but oh no, I don't want to download a 12 year old Amiga
> game, it's illegal" ;)
:-) theres the subtle difference in that I cannot align myself in anyway
to the vast fortunes made by Hollywood studios.
> Why not just grab them of a Romz site then, 'cos if they're on B2R
> it's legal :)
thats true. pity I dont know any Amiga Romz sites ;-)
> Really? cool, I've always wondered what the first one was like
yes, http://www.cinemaware.com , very nice.
(they supply the games as ADF images)
> Anyway go on, download oldies that aren't on B2R, it's no more illegal
> then downloading snes roms, or mp3's, or movies for that matter ;)
- in most ways thats true, but I sit on the ethical side of not liking to
take from those I wish to support. so thats no Amiga software theft, and
very little MP3 grabbing (being a muso myself..yes, a released album and
singles too). Copying of old videosystem ROMs, well, loads of those...but
I do collect Consoles too...and have a dozen REAL V2600 roms, Megadrive
carts, Saturn CD's, NES carts, gameboy carts etc etc
> PS. how the heck did you manage to get all of The Mexican? The most I
> ever got was about 20megs, and the damn Gnutella client I have to use
> doesn't let you resume from different sources :(
...ah, but you have slow slow ADSL...I have a P2P fibre-optic to a dual
relay trans-atlantic satellite link 8-)
alan
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