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Below is a copy of an article about this program I posted to Read News
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Yesterday, I finished my AMOS Video Titling Software, archived it
with the necessary commands, libraries, handlers, and a startup-sequence,
so it would de-archive into a working disk, and uploaded it to:
amiga.physik.unizh.ch
Today, I got an E-Mail back saying that they had to remove the file, as it
is illegal to copy workbench files. I have two gripes with this;
1) To commodore: WHY???????????????????????
Is in not the case that everyone who owns an amiga has a workbench
disk. What sales do they lose by people copying these files. Are they
just trying to make it differicult for us programmers to distribute
our work to users in a way that it is easy for them to install.
Copyrights on some of the applications such as notepad, I could
understand, but making copying libraries illegal is just plain
ridiculous. C Commands should also be freely distributable.
The AMOS manual states that to make PD AMOS software, you should
copy the AMOS Disk, replace AMOS with RAMOS, and them distribute
the disk. However This disk would then violate commodore's copyright
as you are then distributing libraries, so Manderin software are
instructing all AMOS users to break the law.
2) To the site managers and amiga.physik
There are a lot of programs, particullarly in the Games directory on
this site, that are archived with C commands / Libraries. So why did
they allow all of these uploads, but stop mine????????
Did all of these programmers get special permission from commodore?
A Partial solution would be for me to include the ARP C Commands instead of
commodores, but that wouldn't solve the libraries problems, and I've got a
sneaking suspicion ARP commands crash under KS2.0 (I'm not sure about this).
There has to me some way around this problem. Would someone please tell me.
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I own a 1Mb A500 - WB 1.3, and I`m getting p***ed off with not
having the dough to do anything about it!
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I'm Re-Uploading The Video Titler Minus The Workbench Files Today To:
nic.funet.fi & amiga.physik.unizh.ch
P.s. Does anyone know the rules for uploading to wuarchive? I can't find
the README.UPLOAD file.
So this achive no-longer contains all the neccesary files, so you should copy
the following from your workbench disk:
(You should relabel this disk Titles: or assign it to this dir, If this is a hard drive)
From WB/c to Titles/c: Ask
Assign
CD (WB 1.x only)
Else (WB 1.x only)
EndCLI (WB 1.x only)
EndIf (WB 1.x only)
If (WB 1.x only)
LoadWB (WB 1.x only, I think)
Run (WB 1.x only, I think)
From WB/l to Titles/l: Disk-Validator
Ram-Handler
From WB/libs to Titles/libs: diskfont.library
icon.library
mathtrans.library
From your FONTS dir to Titles/Fonts: Any fonts you wany to use (Max 50 in FONTS: when running
video titler).
Finally, make a directory Titles on this disk, as this is the default path for the file
selector is Titles:Titles/