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From:Andrew Crowe
Date:2 May 2001 at 12:53:47
Subject:Re: old , classic, games

Hi Alan

> 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.

What about the vast fortunes that EA is probably making on consols these
days?

>> 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 ;-)

Do a yahoo search for "Amiga ADF UAE ROM" ;)

>> 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-)

Nu-uh, the speed I was downloading was around 10kbytes/s, I can usually get
about 40-50kbytes/s if I get a good mp3 source, I guess the people that
host movies on their computer are quite popular with downloaders ;)

Andrew

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