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Mclaneinc

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  1. Pete, do not use the digital downloads as an excuse for your behaviour, your partner Sal was an absolute a$$hole in his treatment of people and you have not shall we say been sin free so please do not use what was primarily seen as MY beef re the digital downloads, as I said then and now, digital downloads have proved to have been a very good way to distribute software on various platforms while still earning the programmers money. To take that and then accuse pretty much all of us of being possible pirates was your choice, you created the shit storm so please don't hide behind the digital download banner as why you created fake accounts. As for Centron, if you wish to use him as your pin up boy then its no wonder you got so much grief, Pete and his various created guises (oh, you copied that to, copied, NOT PIRATED mind!) caused the crap he got, if you cannot see that then you are potentially as deluded as he was. You started off with an apology which was appreciated and then started went back to trying to stick it to people..Clever...NOT..
  2. Don't worry, its going to happen but myself and Starwindz have one hell of a lot on at the moment. Having spoken privately to Starwindz I can say he's had a lot on his plate to deal with recently and my wife and I have a world of stress re our daughters health that still continues but both myself and Starwindz aim to get back on the case asap. As we all know, real life can be wonderful but it can also be a tough thing..
  3. The only thing that drew me to IM was the nice player movement of the main character and the really nice speech, other than that its just a basic platformer that I reckon a talented person could knock out pretty well, if the sample player from the Ghostbusters Atari version could have the data from the C64 IM then it would be ace.. Anything but S.A.M., fun as it is its not the same... IM was a game you put on to show off the speech to mates but never really enjoyed playing it..
  4. He gets everywhere that man, sometimes he's even invited to the place..
  5. Is this not finished yet? You obviously lack the coding skillz of Pete (Him of Centron fame), I suggest you get him on board ASAP Jon.. Him and his minions will knock it out in a week..And do a cracking video for it..
  6. On the case of Silly venture Demo's, I found one called Vantage by point (think that's the name) and in Altirra newest beta you have to set memory config / power up pattern to either clear, sram of dram3 or the demo crashes... I've left mine on sram (random)... vantage-point.xex
  7. That blew me away....My humble little (emulated) Atari can do that, no way...WAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
  8. How dare you ask about Russian things... Expect a visit.. Vladimir Putin..
  9. If there was an emulator authors prize I'd vote Avery and Toni Wilen (WinUAE) as co top people, their work is amazing and under recognised, utterly amazing work and dedication...
  10. Attn Pirx Pointer to Phaerons Basic Manual in PDF format http://atariage.com/forums/topic/228110-altirra-250-final-out/page-15?do=findComment&comment=3123498
  11. If films and software cost £1 there would always be people who would still get the pirate version, its become a way of life, my brother is the other end of the scales, he would never go near a copied bit of software BUT he always waited till the price had dropped a long way. Would people still class him as not supporting the industry because he refused to pay full price on day one? Sadly some people never get out of the piracy habit, I trod both sides of the fence but these days I prefer quality to free, for instance I could get a film I want in 20mins as a Blu Ray rip but I'd rather have the real thing (Jaws remastered) so I'll buy it, not at full price but at whatever deal is good enough for the real thing. Hence I had a huge moan about Digital downloads which are a standard on the C64 and I buy those, sadly certain folks who dev refuse to see a good revenue earner simply because they would rather call every one a pirate yet fail to see that their attitude actually almost encourages piracy simply because of the contempt they have for the punters. Piracy will never stop until its destroyed every avenue BUT the greed inside the industry to charge absurd prices also annoys the hell out of me, yet they bemoan the fact that a lot of software ends up in the bargain bin, not because it was pirated, but because it was over priced, over hyped garbage.. As I said earlier, quality is everything!
  12. With all the fake accounts PeteyM is starting to sound like the Pete who wrote Centron VD.. Oops..
  13. Perfectly said my friend.. I so wish some of these kids could see it from the start to appreciate just how cool it all was but sadly it would be lost on them I guess, already over tainted with tech as if it had always been there. As a kid I went climbing tree's wandering around the local countryside, doing bike rides for the day etc, I was actually chatting to a friend only yesterday about how he decided to walk to an appointment that was a few miles away just like you used to, actually exercising and doing it for yourself instead of doing the couch potato Bus or car ride.. When I got my first pong home game (yes it just played pong) I sat at that for AGES, it was a marvel, now a pong game is part of a loader or intro just for a bit of fun. Magic times... And yes, cyborg kids, sad in most respects but keen on tech so not all bad, shame most just use and refuse to learn how it actually works, I used to take those flip over numeral clocks apart to see how it worked, wasn't so good at putting them back together but I did learn how to do it after a clout to the head by my day for breaking the new clock
  14. Thank you Jon for asserting that, Perhaps I should go all opposite and check Captain Jack Sparrow for a happy or archiver hidden in his cabin.. Piracy like many words has expanded in meaning since the old sea shanty days.
  15. Piracy has been considered a normal term for copyright theft for tens of years... Also Piracy and copyright theft are too little display the full effect so if anything we should be broadening the terms rather than trying to restrict them.
  16. Piracy happened because it had to, the human mind has in most cases a learning feed that wants to know how stuff works and if its told it can't do something many then decide to see why it can't and seek to challenge that idea. Piracy or plagiarism isn't new as the poster says, its been going on since day one and actually has benefited mankind in its creation of minds and sharing of knowledge. Obviously there's the unwanted negative effects, crime, theft, businesses folding and personal loss but on a slight skew let us not think it all is done by spotty faced nerds sitting in rooms 24 / 7 (although many crackers I met back in the day would fit that example perfectly), much of the piracy has been done by people in suits, well paid people in good positions and even the industry themselves. I knew people in the BBC (they were one of our big customers in Maplin) who would offer you copies of shows but more specifically I knew a couple of well up folks who were at the heart of the supply and spread of Atari stuff, just the same as some of the early games like the unreleased Ms Pacman actually fell out of Atari Slough (fact) and lead to the first ever case of software piracy in court in the UK, they guy in question was a friend who I ended up working with. Anyway, there's proof out there that piracy isn't just a negative effect, it has helped drive tech forward and while there are still people who dare accept the cracking challenge it will carry on, the sad side is that its also decimating small software houses and in many parts of Asia a multi million / billion pound crime spree where proceeds end up in numerous other money making enterprises like drugs etc. Computer / software piracy will always be a tough debate, people with viable arguments either way but neither really make much difference as until its made impossible to copy then piracy in its many forms will exist. It remains a subject that makes tempers fray and I hope people will not allow themselves to get to that point. In the terms of the Atari 8bit all I can hope is that we protect our devs, as long as the material is good there always will be a market for it but it won't make anyone rich..
  17. Banging the hardware was what it was called here, Atari did warn everyone to use the shadow locations and no direct calls..
  18. Surely birth control is disassembly
  19. You might have mentioned you were not running a vanilla setup... For maximum compatibility and error checks use a real rom as well as the ATOS rom.. As for why the same ATOS works with said file in an earlier version (if that's the case) we will need Avery on that one.. And even using the ALTOS for XL / XE all of the files in the zip worked bar miniprg89
  20. Yup...Same here.... All work as much as I can test them due to language restrictions.
  21. Found it needs to be in 400/800 mode to run the assembler..(per the PDF instruction 1st page..) Edit, yup assemblers runs perfectly.. Needs to be loaded via the L dos option and is called ATMASD.OBJ The Run Assembler option from dos does seem to crash BUT I've not read all the PDF as yet..
  22. I hit 54 in June, I was there before all this home computing and arcade games started and feel so bloody privileged to have seen it, all these youngsters who wax on so much about their Xbox ONE or PS4 saying how brilliant a game looks as if all this happened in their time, well I poke my tongue out at them because i saw it from the birth and I've played games that started all this and still play better than some of the rubbish today.. But don't get me wrong, there's some BRILLIANT games on all the machines through the years, ground breaking stuff everywhere, never limit yourself to a single platform....
  23. A 400 for me, instantly did the memory upgrade and added a real KB as being I was a Maplin salesman I had access to both at discount., Quite soon after moved to my fave of the Atari series, the Atari 800.. I moved through the models and just as we did a catalogue with the 1200's and 1450XLD's it all came to a stop and the 1200 never made it to here..
  24. You guys do love to torture these poor old machines (treat this as jealousy )
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