Amiga Crackers

[Franko]

I've always prefer to buy stuff whether it be games, CDs, DVDs or whatever, as to me having the original box/case/manuals are all part of collecting things...

Is still do with CDs, DVDs and SNES games, but at one point while I was still married the missus said enough... as I had more original games than any of the local shops had and so they all had to be archived in ADF or DMS and my prized boxes had to go (big mistake really, as I got rid of the wife just a year later...)

But to be honest back then it was actually easier for me to nip up the Barras and buy cracked/pirated games that I didn't have to bother trying to crack them myself in order to turn them into ADFs or DMS files...

So I'm not sure where I stand on this one, if I had kept all the original boxes then I would need a bigger house and now everything is safely stored and archived on HDs and DVDs and is a whole lot easier to access...

Odd thing is I will never part with my CD, DVD, or SNES collection even though these can easily be obtained in pirate form, but then even the total amount of them comes nowhere near the space that my original Amiga games took up...

[Franko]

@ Digiman

Hmmm... don't recall buying many Amiga games at £25, most were priced between £10 to £15 as far as I recall, many ST ports were lousy indeed and yes it was Commodore who were responsible for the Amigas downfall...

But most Amiga games were not conversions from other platform the truth is the exact opposite, sure there were many badly written original Amiga games, but like most folk when you saw them on display in the shop you simply didn't buy them and just paid a visit to your friendly neighbourhood cracking group instead...

When all is said and done however, it doesn't really matter anymore, it's all history now and is now nothing more than all us Amiga nutters having something to talk about and keeping the Amiga forums alive... whether that a good or bad thing I'm not quite sure...