Subj : Re: copying superkit?
To : David Evans
From : Alien Tech
Date : Mon Nov 18 2019 03:11 am
Someone was just telling me about Ben Fuller and I dont know him. I did V1 and
V2 and refused to give them V3 since they did not pay the royalties promised..
So I think they released V2 with some of the stuff already done like the dual
disk file copier
etc.. I had faster stuff done and when their check bounced just put it out as
shareware and made like $90 on it from the $3 from 30 people.. So instead of
finishing up V3 I did wrap speed for cinemaware and then Vmax\s last update for
ATG. As was the
case everywhere, I stopped giving them updates when their checks started
bouncing.. Which meant immediately.. So they were left using the copies they
already had.
I would have liked to know if Ben ever got any money.. I talked with quite a
few people at prism who tried to get me to give them updates. All were lets
sell a few copies and we will pay you but not even a little money for all the
previously sold copies
and almost sent in the updates but waited 2 days just in case and got the $100
bank charges for bounced checks... After that it was just pay fully and they
stopped calling.
On Monday, August 21, 2000 at 12:30:00 PM UTC+5:30, David Evans wrote:
> In article <
[email protected]>, <
[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have lost the docs to this program, so I cannot check this - but
> >the disk may have been keyed so that only a certain number of copies
> >can be made from the original. This sort of scheme did exist then.
>
> It might also just notice that it's copying itself and FUBAR the copy in
> some way or set a flag. Pretty simply to do.
>
> > As I remember, when Superkit was released there where lots of
> >problems with the software working on certain 1541 versions.
>
> True. The secod version was much better than the first in this regard,
I've
> bene told. I have the second version. I think that the second one
introduced
> the 128 boot sector and the ability to load specific utilities using
> LOAD ":*4",8,1.
>
> SuperKit/1541 was great software, though: I used it for years. Too bad
> Ben Fuller's SuperKit/Amiga was't anywhere near as good. The MFM editor was
> kind of cool and the cycling colours with the sample of Trans-X's "Living on
> Video" at the start was a good gimmick but the actual tools were a little
> dissapointing. Project D wasn't much better IIRC.
>
>
> --
> David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK)
[email protected]
> PhD Student, Computer/Synth Junkie
http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
> University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
> Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)
