AmigaOS 3.9 Boing Bag #3

[dannyp1]

I have seen FFS 45.15.  Is this the newest?  I have not seen the patch for icon.library 45.5.  Where can it be found?

Dan

[dannyp1]

Sharebee is really messed up on my computer.  It won't let me download any of the files.  It is loaded with pop-ups that are trying to load and wants me to take tests and fill out forms asking for my email, name, etc. before I can download a file.  Media fire always worked great but this Sharebee is worthless.  What's going on?

[dannyp1]

Well, I got it working.  I used ZShare and it made me sit and wait 50 seconds before I could continue to the download.  I am still getting pop-ups.  I'm just not seeing where you think this is better in all ways to the previous method.  Thank-you for your help.  The bottom line is I now have the files downloaded.  

Dan

[dannyp1]

Why would you want to delete things if you don't know if they are pirated or not?  Here we go with the old "Guilty until proven innocent" crap.  As far as I can see all of the updates in the BB3 are public domain, freeware, etc.  If you go do a search in aminet you will find just about everything.  Where did the complaint come from that would inspire you to leave that post?

[dannyp1]

I guess my question then is, if you were the one who complained, what were you complaining about when you said yourself that you didn't know if the files were legal or not.  I can perfectly understand your questioning if they were legal (We all need to get our jollies somehow).  I do not understand the threat to start erasing things.  If these are pch patches and things released as freeware such as xad and AHI then you have no complaint. There are enough people spending their time on the English Board already.  Are you trying to chase more people there?

[dannyp1]

Thank you Argo for being polite and not having an attitude.  The guys doing the BB3 have been trying real hard to get it right and it just kind of bothers me when someone jumps in with a chip on their shoulder and starts threatning to erase things.

[dannyp1]

Did you read the post that you quoted?  That answers your question.  

[dannyp1]

I think I got it to go away by saving the fonts in prefs.

[dannyp1]

I keep hearing how easy it is to do this installer.  If this is so easy why hasn't it already been done?  Amikit has been saying on here for years that he would do it and never has.  Now that someone else is trying he's back with how easy it is.  If this is so easy, go make a "bullet proof" BB3 yourself and I'm sure Gulliver will gladly make this one dissapear.  Gulliver isn't doing this for glory or fame.  He's doing it because of his love of the Amiga.  Which brings up one of the biggest problems with the Amiga scene these days.  There are too many people calling the shots who haven't even turned on an Amiga in years.

[dannyp1]

I will just repeat what I already said.  If making a BB3 is so easy, why is this the first real effort that has been made to do it.  People have been pleading for years to get this done and now that someone is actually making it happen, all the naysayers are coming out of the woodwork.  This doesn't need to be "bullet proof".  It Needs to get into the hands of Amiga users who actually still use their Amiga's.  Please don't tell me how easy this is to do, show me.

[dannyp1]

Amikit said:  "At first you were talking about installer, now you are talking about easyness of creating the whole package. Make up your mind. Btw. I've already created both so I see no reason why should I show anything more to you."

We must be missing something in the translation between native languages here.  If you have allready done all of this why are Gulliver and his crew wasting their time doing what you have already done?

I know you have an installer for installing patches on your emulation.  This is for real Amiga's.

You are taking what I am saying personally and it is not meant to be that way.  You have a wonderful web site that I have visited many times and donated money to more than once.  It is a great resource for the community.  I just don't consider the BB3 project to be easy or it would have been done long before now.  I know that I couldn't do what they are doing or I would have already done it myself.

[dannyp1]

What's the big secret?  If you know of somebody who feels they are being hurt by the BB3 project, you or the person with the "clear answers" should speak up and not play games.  For it to be illegal somebody would have to care that their code that was written for the Amiga was being used on Amiga's.  There is nobody connected with this project who is making a single penny from somebody elses work.  There is nobody on the project who is trying to take credit for somebody elses work.

[dannyp1]

If somebody is a copyright holder why don't they step forward and identify themselves and present the proof that they have a legal right to stop the BB3.  There are being efforts made and emails sent daily trying to clear up any problems. (I might add that nobody who has been contacted and has replied has had a problem with the project yet).  I find it strange that somebody on another board can send out a couple of emails and instantly get replys that contain "clear answers" but it is a big secret as to who the mystery copyright holder is and why he would give a hoot that somebody is trying to keep a dying platform alive with no hurt being done to him.  Am I the only one who is curious who this "license/copyright/owner" is.

[dannyp1]

Huh?

[dannyp1]

Here we go again.  And Argo, just where was it you got your law degree to be such an expert on what is legal.  You had better also ban everyone from going on EBay because I see illegal roms for sale on there every day (but gee, they never seem to get shut down.  What do they know that you don't).  And there's that Amiga hardware site with all the installation disks.  They are all legal?  They also never get shut down.  Why is it that Amiga.org is the only place the web police are lying in wait to do away with?