Please stop copying Starfighter.

[Angus]

coldfish wrote:
@weirdami

Yep, I agree.  It's still a waste of time though.

No its not.

Its a "feel" thing. DrewFX feels its wrong that people should be selling his game without permission, and that's pretty difficult to argue with. Potential purchasers are likely to feel that if the author has made it freely available they'd rather take advantage of that than be taken adavntage of by some (and I believe this is the correct technical term) "pikey {bleep}" on Ebay.

At the end of the day, all parties bar the aforementioned "pikey {bleep}" feel they have done the right thing - no small thing, and I would submit, not a waste of time.

[Angus]

DrewFX wrote:

So the question is should I get a new Amiga to cater for the new users?

Yes.   :-)

I haven't been able to get the game running, because I have a fairly well expanded classic Amiga with mediator/voodoo etc.

I did get an old demo of the game from an Amiga Format CD running pretty well though - I used Jean-Francois Fabre's JST program with its EXECUTE mode for this.

Can one disable the music?  ;-)

I'm guessing an RTG patch is out of the question, but what would be great would be a way of reducing the chip memory the game requires in order to run. I just wondered if a way of bypassing some of the intro might achieve this?

Anyway, thanks for your efforts.

[Angus]

DrewFX wrote:
Well this is a lively debate hey?

Agreed - Andrew, as this thread is getting a bit "polarised", is there any chance you would post any further info regarding actual Starfighter developments (as opposed to the whole copyright thing) to a new thread?

Just a thought.  :-)