registering MIAMI software

[mattabat]

Is Holger Kruse available to create a keyfile?
It's just that he's very hard to track down..
As for the comments people made, I liked the features Miami Deluxe offered, but not being able to get a legitimate keyfile make matters academic.
Yes, I remember how claims of a backdoor were the last straw, but they were just that, claims. He didn't have to abandon us due to a few loudmouths.
It's just that he went on to greener pastures and dumped everyone, and it's quite unfair of him to expect his copyright (which he is clearly not protecting) to be respected under these circumstances.
But since no-one seems to have heard from him, I doubt we'll have to worry about his opinions anymore :-)

[terminator]

lurkist wrote:
I find it impossible to beleive that this is the bottom line.  How can such an advanced piece of software like this be forever crippled?  SOMEONE must know the author and pursuade him to release a public key surely?!?!

People have tried to take over the registration from him, but he just wasn't interested. I think his key server may have crashed, and after that he decided it wasn't worth the time and hassles anymore.

For the amount of slander and innuendo aimed at him and his software, I can't really blame him for saying 'to hell with the Amiga crowd.'  Unlike Proctor and Gamble, he couldn't afford to use legal options against the few who ruined it for everyone.

[terminator]

mattabat wrote:
Is Holger Kruse available to create a keyfile?
It's just that he's very hard to track down..

It's not that easy.  He sent you a "key", and when you registered your copy of Miami it called out to his keyserver, and generated the needed keyfiles. But the server isn't operational anymore. He did mention that there were some serious "anti-theft" devices in place too.

Don't bother trying to track him down.  He was not impressed by the last person who did that. It may have had the opposite of the intended effect too.

[Jeff]

I was going to drop this in anyway, and now the Miami thing again.

I read the story a few years ago about how Roadshow was developed from the old AmiTCP sources.  It was good reading, although I can't remember where.  I think Olaf did the work, correct?

Anyway, it was developed and running on 68K before the work was done to make it part of OS 4.0 PPC as I recall.  I offered by email to the author to pay for it back then if it were to be released.  I never heard a word.

Why can't we buy Roadshow 68K as a seperate product?

[itix]

Why can't we buy Roadshow 68K as a seperate product?

AFAIK RoadShow 68k will be released shortly after OS4.

[boing]

So do cracks, keyfiles, etc., work or not?


If software is abandoned by the author and he no longer even offers registration (What! I assure you that Holger Kruse won't refuse free money), then I advocate doing whatever it takes to liberate the software.  If the author doesn't care.... then he doesn't care.. about cracking, piracy of the program, etc.   ;-)


>The fact that Kruse refuses to acknowledge any form of communication

I don't think this is a valid claim.  Send a chicken and see what happens.  I mean a check in.  The Daily Show was talking about chickens just then.


>made it impossible for those of good faith to register the software: the site no longer exists

Do we have a snail address or email address that we know is now valid?



>And indeed in the USA the limit is now 95 years,

Money talks here.  Best legislation money can buy.



>He didn't have to abandon us due to a few loudmouths.

Some people...


>He did mention that there were some serious "anti-theft" devices in place too.

A threat of this kind from Holger only fueled the "backdoor" claims.


>He was not impressed by the last person who did that.

References?


>I offered by email to the author to pay for it back then if it were to be released. I never heard a word

Odds are his spam filter got it.  Try snail mail.  It works.

[EnglishPag]

OK - AmiTCP doesn't want to play well with DHCP and I can't get it to ping anything other than the "destination" address I typed in during installation (if any).

With MiamiDX unregistered I could ping other computers on my network but couldn't unblock the firewall for Amiga Explorer (the button was only on the registered version).

I just want to be able to transfer files between my PC and Amiga relatively quickly... is that so much to ask? =)

Recommendations gentlemen please.

Cheers
John

[terminator]

boing wrote:
So do cracks, keyfiles, etc., work or not?


If software is abandoned by the author and he no longer even offers registration (What! I assure you that Holger Kruse won't refuse free money), then I advocate doing whatever it takes to liberate the software.  If the author doesn't care.... then he doesn't care.. about cracking, piracy of the program, etc.   ;-)

So, just because someone won't loan you their car, you advocate stealing it?

It's his property, and as such, he can do what he damn well pleases with it. He doesn't have to sell it to you if he doesn't want to.  He has the same rights as Walmart.

This is yet another demonstration of the childish attitude that some Amiga users seem to have, and which is a big roadblock to getting people interested in developing Amiga software.

Holger finally tired of the unrelenting Amiga fanatics.  Wonder why?  I don't.

[Jeff]

The problem was already solved.  Someone wrote a new software package and it sounds like it works.

We just need to find out how to buy that now, or start writing another one. Sadly I am not capable of the last option :-D

Jeff

[itix]

Port TCP/IP stack from AROS.

[pVC]

"OK - AmiTCP doesn't want to play well with DHCP and I can't get it to ping anything other than the "destination" address I typed in during installation (if any)."

AmiTCP works fine if you don't need DHCP or PPPoE or something like that. I can ping every machine I want with it. Why you use "destination" there? Usually it's not needed. Just define ip-address, gateway and netmask for normal LAN.