How much pirated Amiga software did you have?

[Amiga1000]

Well since the statute of limitations has long expired since the halcyon days of 1987-89..

I had a few hundred, obtained from a circle of friends who would get together and copy stuff. I didn't get any via downloading.
Most Amiga people seemed to come from the C64 scene where piracy was rampant and mass copy parties were common. There was a big one in one of the town parks.

There were some whose collections dwarfed mine, they had thousands of disks.
Do I pirate now? Nope.

[Amiga1000]

Funny... Manx Aztec C and WordPerfect were 2 out of the only 3 packages that I ever bought as a lad.. the other was OS 1.3 ! :roflmao:

15?  Are you kidding?   Sheesh, we would get 15 in a night!


79th Track, Only Amiga, Fear and Loathing...so many BBS sites combined with PC-Pursuit rocked!

I didn't know anybody who didn't do this.  I'm sure it hurt the software market a great deal on the Amiga but with everybody coming from the Commodore 64 it was just the way things were...  I mean the Commodore 64 sold so well because of piracy!   I always heard that Commodore said "Piracy sells computers!"

It was the Golden Time of the scene...ESI, Bencor Brothers, Razor 1911, The Firm, boy times were much simpler...

79th Track had these awesome util disks that were just fantastic!

I know it wasn't right but at the time I was a 17 year old kid with no money.  I'm going to buy WordPerfect or Aztec C for the Amiga?   Yeah, right...