odin:i totally agree with you , but my point was more or less, support the shops , negotiate with prices of older sw if prices are high (i do that...and they all want to sell so..atleast them serious ones..)
sure dont bother to negotiate on new stuff but i was talking about older if so..
anyway as far as lemmings is concerned Dma approved it as Abandonware ages ago , but not the 2player amiga only release (only them normal ones).
my point was more or less why not buy if u like ?, sure i dont say pay 50 quid for a non rare game or such if u aint a collector, but rather than like tosec etc (who gives a #### about the shops and authors of the sw etc) you might want to go to a shop and check out etc, i know it aint mainstream anymore but then again it never would be if the shops aint supported.
as for nightlong , i bought that aswell ..set me back about 100 ukp ;( when i bought that, very expensive game, but still it was worth it in my eyes.., but then again u can pick that up at forematt.co.uk for 18 quid now (and thats v1.1 sets)...
anyway if a game is worth playing its worth buying, sadly there is alot of not worthy games out there atm , especially the period 98-2000 , games like Joyride, turboracer3d etc simply dont even justify a price at 7 quid...
but it doesnt jusity it for beeing abandonware like tosec claim it is (and it aint), apanosin was on tosec before there was an commercial release of it, just like the old days eh?... and apano sin wasnt infact a bad game either but i must admit i expected abit more of it..
i still buy old games from shops in euorpoe and usa, mostly because i am a collector and due to the fact that i love games, and it gives me a good feeling that i support the shops + own the games, but i have been burnt a few times with lame ass shops like " amigastuff.co.uk , amigagames.co.uk and epic uk , alive and archon...allof theese should have been closed down at the opening day, they publish illegal liscenses (they still do) and claim to have liscenses for ol games as xenon 2 on a cdr (cdtv version) and take money for it, same goes for monkey island 1,2 cd and fotaq cd...all are illegal and dubious cracks (i contacted the authors after i got the cds in my post and noticed it was cracks and a paper label on a cdr)
other games as fighting spirit and such is also redistrubuted from alive (now called amigagames.co.uk and amigastuff.co.uk) which again is illegal versions and not a dime goes to the developers,and guess what...they are still on amiga also , but they opened the games to bttr but not the cd versions (cd32)..
confusing? it should be....
cheers
