Hi
Dry runs with an emulator before upgrading your A1200 is a touch confusing to me can you explain...
It is truly a shame that Miami is no longer available to register, but it was never ever offered free, given that the creators wanted paying for their product. The fact that they ceased selling the product doesn`t make it abandonware, as you have obtained something for free which was never intended to be fully distributed that way. I could understand it if they had sold you the product and you had a drive failure or lost the registration documents. You cannot curse the creators who never agreed to give the software out for free. There is only a slight nuisance with the software with a time out, and all the software is on Aminet so you don`t need to install the version off 3.5.
Abandonware is subjective and a touchy subject with folk like me who have registered versions of Miami, Genesis, Mui, IDEFix etc etc which I regularly get requests to part with the keys etc. Which I guess was the purpose of your mail.
scuzz