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Title: for free: X-Copy X-Mas Edition '93 (2008)
Post by: Evillord68 on December 25, 2008, 12:47:48 PM
Mr. Vice an Member of Cachet, offers X-Copy X-Mas Edition '93 (2008) for free.

DOWNLOAD: X-Copy X-Mas Edition '93 (2008) (http://aminet.net/disk/bakup/xcopypro_xmas93_2008.zip)
Title: Re: for free: X-Copy X-Mas Edition '93 (2008)
Post by: Darrin on December 25, 2008, 04:28:51 PM
That's nice of him.  Thanks.
Title: Re: for free: X-Copy X-Mas Edition '93 (2008)
Post by: broken on December 25, 2008, 06:03:25 PM
Looks pretty nice, but it appears atleast part of it is in German (I am guessing).

Any English directions/guide to it?


Looks pretty nice other wise!
Title: Re: for free: X-Copy X-Mas Edition '93 (2008)
Post by: beller on December 25, 2008, 07:53:45 PM
I couldn't get that aminet link to work but I did find the file here! (http://aminet.net/disk/bakup/xcopypro_xmas93_2008.zip)
Title: Re: for free: X-Copy X-Mas Edition '93 (2008)
Post by: weirdami on December 26, 2008, 09:36:40 AM
why is it '93 and 2008?
Title: Re: for free: X-Copy X-Mas Edition '93 (2008)
Post by: Evillord68 on December 26, 2008, 10:10:31 AM
The last X-Mas release is from 1993. Now 2008 it´s for free.

Here´s the original thread: http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php?t=14027
Title: Re: for free: X-Copy X-Mas Edition '93 (2008)
Post by: mingle on December 26, 2008, 12:00:28 PM
A nice gesture I guess, but does anyone actually use X-Copy any more?

I would've thought that there are ADFs of pretty much ever piece of software ever released for the Amiga?

Cheers,

Mike.
Title: Re: for free: X-Copy X-Mas Edition '93 (2008)
Post by: weirdami on December 26, 2008, 01:41:10 PM
Quote
google translated from that thread:

Hello,

also my best wishes and greetings for a besinnliches Christmas the 2008th At Cachet had earlier service package for customers with a special X-copy version for Christmas. Of course, the saw, even after Christmas from. 1993, this version I put together, then gave it to my knowledge no X-Mas Copy more.

This repackaging (15th Anniversary Edition) contains the 93er X-Mas Copy, Cyclone, CCIS and a small demo.

This version may be freely disseminated. ...


 ;-)
Title: Re: for free: X-Copy X-Mas Edition '93 (2008)
Post by: hooligan on December 27, 2008, 02:23:23 PM
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A nice gesture I guess, but does anyone actually use X-Copy any more?

Nobody. No selfrespecting Amigauser nor demosceneswapper used it even back then either as there were much better alternatives available.
Title: Re: for free: X-Copy X-Mas Edition '93 (2008)
Post by: TheMagicM on December 27, 2008, 03:25:28 PM
hooligan:

sarcasm, perhaps?  I used it to copy games back in the day, along with other copy programs.
Title: Re: for free: X-Copy X-Mas Edition '93 (2008)
Post by: hooligan on December 27, 2008, 04:19:39 PM
0% sarcasm. Really. Superduper or even Tetracopy beat the {bleep} out of xcopy.
Title: Re: for free: X-Copy X-Mas Edition '93 (2008)
Post by: Ruud on December 27, 2008, 10:46:34 PM
Yeah Superduper was good and I liked D-Copy as well.
X-Copy though holds a certain kind of nostalgia for me.  It was one of the first non-game pieces of software I was introduced to on the A500.   Got no use for it now but it's nice they've released a free version for those that might want it.

Cheers,
Rudi.
Title: Re: for free: X-Copy X-Mas Edition '93 (2008)
Post by: TheMagicM on December 27, 2008, 11:33:22 PM
hooligan:

I used it alot, but some of the stuff i had was cracked and put on a single disk.  I used Synchro-Express to copy protected disks.
Title: Re: for free: X-Copy X-Mas Edition '93 (2008)
Post by: hooligan on December 28, 2008, 10:17:53 AM
Bad cracks :-D

Those were the the days.. I did swapping till the end of 1999. Gathered three plasticbags full of  paperletters eventhough letters were written most on disk later. Hard to guess how many disks I have copied or how many diskdrives went bust during the around 10 years I acted as a swapper, I would say thousands. I had a couple hundred contacts which kept me busy and made a burning hole to my walled
 :lol:
Title: Re: for free: X-Copy X-Mas Edition '93 (2008)
Post by: TheSLASH! on January 02, 2009, 10:29:42 AM
X-copy was probably the most used software on the Amiga and did it's work well, and i think SD and TC required more than 1MB of memory, that most A500 users didn't have at that time, to copy a full disk with only one floppy drive and without disk swapping more than once.