*While you read this, please note i don't support piracy*
*allthough you may not think so*
Imho Tosec is a great idea. I've yet to see anything NEW
at that site at all. newest game would probably be alien breed 3d 2 or something like that.
They are doing a great job in fact. Collecting over many thousands of disks of various old games,programs,demoscene productions and so on. They check what version, name of company,releasedates, and so forth, and everything to make sure that everything
that ever was being made on amiga in those good old days... can still be enjoyed in the light of present day and future.
**break : Tosec is in no way amiga only, they give out tons of stuff for atari spec nes and tons and tons more stuff**
Imho, amiga is very much alive by the fact that ppl can play old games, use good old dpaint/ppaint and enjoy
the mighty power of real o.s. ).Not even starting to mention the demoscene,the amount of ppl hungry to check out the history of various groups are tending to be quite enormous.
You know it as well as i do, there are tons of them old
games which are never going to be played but just maybe one day, someone will pick it up, not because they wanted to, but because they stumbled upon some old game (or app) made available by those guys at Tosec.
I really fail to see what money is "lost" because of this.
It's in a way funny, because all of which tosec has released as i have seen so far is in fact re-releases of
good working copies of various software.
In other words. It is *already* been pirated and it killed the amiga. So what damage could it do NOW? when the amiga is already been slained to a ghost/angel who has yet to prove it's commercial value in todays market.
I really hate to say this, i really,really do. But at least i know the truth.
I really would like to say that amiga would rise from the ashes, but face reality, not like the way amiga is heading atm, no don't think so.
Now ..It's a whole new ballgame to relelase new amiga software, however, i don't think the whole idea of the work that Tosec does should be consireded such a negative result fact, because it simply isn't. And i stress the fact that i do NOT know of any new software or should i say profitable commercial software that would be sold in any way is being released by Tosec.
The thing is that many users liked amiga the way they were(are). Who needs more then an amiga with b1260 anyway? or blizzard 1230 for that matter. It was this thought and along with piracy which seriously helped kill the amiga.
However, i better stop coz i am changing topics here =)..
Now you may all disagree with me, and i am totally cool with that, but ask yourself this question. :
How many new users did amiga community gain by new hardware, new exciting software the last 5 years?
a million? 100 thousand? 10 thousand?
And then think of the possibility of reliving the amiga dream through an pc on emulation...
New hardware or latest winuae?
Take your pick "Joe".
Don't be a smart ass if you're not prepared to loose.
:-)
