How much pirated Amiga software did you have?

[smerf]

Hi, a poll for the old days, how many pirated games or productivity software did you have in your collection at it's peak. Don't count anything post 1997 seeing how it became hard to get a legal copy. If you replaced your pirated software with a legal copy in that time frame, don't count that either.

Hi,

Believe it or not I did not have one pirated game until Arctic Fox, I was buying all my Amiga Software, then when Commodore changed the OS from 1.0 to 1.1, my Arctic Fox would not play anymore on my Amiga 1000, I contacted the software company that produced it and received a smart butt answer. Well on that day my whole idea of buying software changed, I broke and busted every piece of software that was copy protected, but if the software wasn't copy protected I bought it, simple as that.

smerf

[smerf]

Hi,

@Stefcep2

"this thread confirms what I've suspected: the vast majority of Amigans were pirates, and if you think that didn't play a major part in the platforming failing, you're kidding yourself."

What killed Amiga was the copy protection that was put on these disks, a little thing called a hard drive came out, and people couldn't put the software that was copy protected on the hard drive. This led to  boxes upon boxes of games that you had to root through to play the game. Once again I will say it "if the software was copy protected I broke it, or copied it with cracking software, if the software was copy protection free then I bought it and installed it on my hard drive. If you look at my collection copy protected software was pirated, bascally it was fun on my part to break it and put it out on the BBS boards. Another thing you will notice is that most people who broke software were software developers themselves.

Sorry copy protection and not piracy condemned the Amiga to failure (plus the way that Commode sold it).

smerf