Pirated Amiga software on ebay

[smerf]

Hi,

@fishy_fiz,

Sorry but I don't have the same feelings as you do about this matter,

because

One of the things that killed the Amiga was games being put out on disk with copy protection which prohibited people who bought these games from installing them on their hard drive.
Also such companies as Electronic Arts, who put copy protection on their first produced games such as Arctic Fox, and Skyfox messed you up when they went from version 1.0 to 1.1 on the Amiga 1000. These games would not run on Ver 1.1 of Amiga OS. Today I support vendors which produce software without protection, and I won't buy any games that have protection on them (i.e. spores by electronic farts). Years ago though I would break these games and post them on the BBS boards across the country, I was so enraged.

Today the Amiga is kept alive by a handful of old relics like me, or some new kids that wanted to see what an old system could do. It really has no purpose because even setting up one of todays printers is a challenge on the old girl.  I keep it around for my important data storage, picture base, and MP3 downloads. The old girl hasn't crashed yet and I think she is doing a fine job of keeping my important files handy. (Windows crashes to much to keep anything important on it without a backup plan). The Amiga's backup plan with Disk Master and LHARC (LHA) is one of the best backup plans I have ever used, and guess what, I use it but don't know why, since I have never lost any data on the Amiga.

For playing games I use Cloanto's Amiga Forever. This is were your so called pirated CD's come into play. Hey I bought just about every game the Amiga had that wasn't copy protected, and copied all the ones that were copy protected. Some of them will play and a lot won't. So as far as Pirated, in todays Amiga situation, I think every software producer abandoned ship (or computer) a long time ago.

smerf

[smerf]

Being an avid collector of SNES R.P.G. Games, I pay on average around the £50  mark on ebay to buy the originals. I have even paid £110 for a factory sealed original of Chrono Trigger on ebay.

I always prefer to have the original box, manuals etc.. as it's something I enjoy collecting and using and I don't even mind paying over the top prices for such things.

But I also have the rom images download from various sites for the games that I own, simply because it's more convenient to run them from an HD and emulator on my iMac.

Reckon that makes me a pirate, but the thing is if you can't buy old software anymore whatever the platform, then what else are you supposed to do.

Even though as Crom00 says it's up to the IP holders and manufactures to take an interest in releasing old software, what are the chances of that happening when their view is quite simply all to do with making a big profit.

It would be great if all the companies that still hoard all this old software would put some of the vast profits that they have made over the years into re issuing a lot of this old stuff, instead of letting them gather dust.

I don't reckon it would actually cost them much to do so and they may in fact even make a profit from them. The trouble is the profit margin to such companies would not be significant enough for the greedy sods to sit up and take any notice.

Hi,

Right you are Franko,

Just because the Amiga isn't being made today, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. They should sell all their Amiga game rights to someone like Cloanto, or AmigaKit, so that these people could resell them to us Amiga Collectors, and hopefully they would make them copy protection free and downloadable from some site so that we could buy them on line. Hey if they done that they probably could still make a couple of bucks profit, say if they sold the image at say $10 offering AmigaKit $8 and taking $2 for every sale

smerf