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Description: X-Copy filmed during a raid on a market stall in London. Taken from the computer show Bad Influence.
Picture Stats: Views: 2589 Filesize: 29.94kB Height: 768 Width: 1024 Posted by: bilko9070 at February 13, 2006, 02:22:49 AM Image Linking Codes
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| jj Posts:4052 | December 04, 2008, 02:27:24 PM dont have to go to bejing for that to happen. Happens in Cardiff all the time too. |
| Damion Posts:3511 
| April 01, 2008, 07:29:23 PM Charging money for amiga warez?!? Lamers! ;-) |
| AMC258 Posts:877
| February 17, 2008, 04:35:36 PM Stand in one place on any busy street in Beijing for too long and you will be SURROUNDED by guys yelling "Weeseedee" (VCD) and "Deeweedee" (DVD) and shoving them in your face. Lots of European music videos and copies of WindozeXP. |
| countzero Posts:1938 | January 11, 2008, 01:40:02 AM last time I was in new york (2007), there were open cd 'stalls' on the streets of manhattan where people bought pirated music/software. the only difference is you don't have shops for pirated stuff in the US. |
| IOWASURFER Posts:102
| October 10, 2007, 07:25:19 PM When I was in desert storm 1 in the 90's in Saudi Arabia I was shocked to see software stores everywhere with tons and tons and tons of pirated copies for pennies on the dollar of hacked C64 and Amiga warez.. If i wasn't in such a crappy dusty dity bad for 5 1/4 diskettes climate I might have been tempted to seriously load up back then (( BIG KID IN A CHEAP CANDY STOR E)).. But in some countries like Saudi Arabia there is no copy right protections and these stores are everywhere!! Pirates we don't need no stinking pirates we have countries like Saudi Arabia doing it legally at least in their minds.. LOL |
| K7HTH Posts:573 | April 08, 2007, 08:18:35 AM Most definitely Moonstone, A Knight's Tale. |
| Hyperspeed Posts:1749
| November 21, 2006, 12:48:55 AM Well there is a flip side in that you can't sell on copied diskettes, and sometimes you can pay 10 GBP for a legit game and it might retain it's value or even double in value over the years. There a few games on Amiga now that set people on eBay alight! Moonstone amongst others! |
| viviancer Posts:23
| November 15, 2006, 09:19:07 AM Actualy i never had an original Amiga game. in Serbia there was everything, all you have to do is to chose from list. i have used x-copy with my friends for thousand of games. :-D |
| TheMagicM Posts:2857 | September 09, 2006, 03:44:28 PM I did the same w/C64 stuff.. not really bought.. but just went to a friends house every week and copied away. Too bad I sold the system.. had 200+ floppys..but then again I have a whole bunch of C64 stuff on CD.. Amiga stuff..well..lol. I have alot. |
| Hyperspeed Posts:1749
| September 04, 2006, 12:49:41 AM Very true. I remember seeing, a few years ago, a device called 'Bung 64' which basically copied N64 games onto ZiP Disks. A bit like a futuristic version of the old Amiga! It took a while for me to understand what a ROM was... I couldn't get my head around the fact that the data on a silicon cartridge could be converted into a file and then replayed on an emulator. The people who code these emulators are very clever indeed. I suppose the internet is the only place where media is both completely safe and completely unsafe at the same time... everyone can store the file (the media will never wear out) but also anyone can edit it! (Just look at the games where some git has changed the in game text!). :-D |
| alexatkin Posts:100
| August 20, 2006, 06:16:10 AM Speaking of copies. One game I used to have "Mr Nutz" which I loved (and was a an original boxed version) back then corrupted the original disk saving the game. When I asked Ocean for a replacement "we do not have the rights to that game anymore". In fact, the ONLY way I got to play it again was years later when I got a PC and it thankfully was put online in all it pirate copied hacked glory. When you think about all this copy protection, if nobody ever cracked it then retro gaming on Amiga would barely exist as a lot of originals will have perished. Then again finding DD disks to write the ADF onto must be tricky, thankfully I still have a ton of them and enough of em still work. So while you can say pirates are evil, and with CD/DVD its FAR less an issue as its fairly rare (so far) for them to die unless abused, we have them to thank for keeping us playing our retro Amiga games. When it comes to emulation even moreso. If those cartridge dumpers did not exist there wouldnt be any ROMs. Somehow I do not think there would be enough demand to sell ROM dumpers to everyone who wants to emulate. Not to mention the legality of selling em. |
| Hyperspeed Posts:1749
| April 27, 2006, 12:40:45 AM I remember buying pirate games by the bucketload from a friend back in my school days. 2 GBP per disk was the fee and X-Copy was the evil tool! In my case though I'd usually buy the full version as I liked to read the manual and appreciate the box art etc. X-Copy did uncover a virus on one disk (with Heimdall 2 on it) which is rather lucky. When I think back I remember a lot of PSone games had cracked intros (Fairlight etc.) even as far as Wipeout 3. A lot came from Russian crime gangs alledgedly so maybe we should all consider that car boot sale copies could be funding pimps and drug barons... |
| _yak_ Posts:227
| April 26, 2006, 11:44:25 PM I remember buying an Amiga game in Poland, back in the early 90. All you had to do was to choose it from a list and pay. The guy just copied it for you using X-Copy  . Of course he also didn't had the original, it was some cracked version already with a trainer usually. Heh, strange times. |