Amiga Crackers

[Digiman]

Back in the day, piracy meant I had lots of games.

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Never bought the "piracy killed the amiga" argument though. The problem was with Commodore's management, not with people copying some games.

Hmmm no the problem was with quality of the many many terrible arcade conversions @ £25 on shop shelves like Outrun. We ALL knew something close to arcade perfect was possible for just about every game of the 80s arcade but we got shit on constantly with lousy conversions written by incompetent coders.

I ONLY bought quality products that were obviously using a high degree of the power of OCS....the rest got pirated. The only people who lost out were the software companies peddling their badly coded ST ports for £5 extra. IF all games were written with the same level of skill as Beast, Lotus II or Stardust then they would get my money. The rest of the potential sales died a horrible death at the hands of my X-Copy disk AND I AM PROUD OF THAT.

I bought Gauntlet 1, I pirated Gauntlet 2. It's that simple.

Amiga disappeared from shop shelves as a product to buy thanks to Commodore yes, but software houses crying wolf over piracy levels and hence validating their decision to abandon the format only have themselves to blame in general. If lack of software, due to piracy, killed the Amiga then ultimately all those crappy pathetically programmed games we had to suffer (like 90% of Amiga conversions) by software houses is the cause. Depends what you mean.

So I chose pancakes due to complexity of the issue (the American style ones, with maple syrup to be precise :roflmao:)

[Digiman]

Piracy is all blow out of proportion while I still  get cracked stuff even for Pc's i have alot of original software and it's come to a point if a software house release a game/program that requires quite a few "upgrade" i.e. bug fixes then i would rather pirate it. People have been conned into thinking its ok to pay money for a game/app that isn't finished or has bugs in it.. IE look at windows how many security and other upgrades do you get per week (don't get me wrong i liked XP and love win 7 BUT come on..... )

P.s. I actually have a large Steam account and so does my oldest son so i have paid for games that i think are worth it.

If a PC game requires me to be connected to the internet to play games off-line or other stupid copy protection routines then out of principle I will not pay for it. If they treat my like scum by assumption then I might as well pirate it anyway (not that I need PC games, got every console ever released in the UK since 1970s anyway )

[Digiman]

I've got a nice Intellivision collection, something like 60 games in boxes with overlays and manuals.  I never play them, though!

The only reason you keep them is because they are worth bugger all on ebay :roflmao: