Amiga Crackers

[ElPolloDiabl]

Check the poll.

[runequester]

Back in the day, piracy meant I had lots of games.

In the present day, my PC is 100% legal software, though Im not too fussed with old amiga stuff, as none of it has been for sale in years. Working to get original copies of stuff though.


Never bought the "piracy killed the amiga" argument though. The problem was with Commodore's management, not with people copying some games.

[Retro_71]

I VOTE PANCAKES... but where is the syrup.....
I am in the halfway group privates is ok but not too much.... :lol:

[Roj]

Nah, I probably would have kept them as a collectible, never opened them and they'd be all green now.

I prefer oyster crackers. They're Boing-Bally shaped. Sort of.

[commodorejohn]

Given that the "piracy is killing the x industry!" argument has turned out to be complete bullshit everywhere else (my running theory is that people that will buy the product will buy the product, and the people who pirate it wouldn't anyway,) I'm not ill-disposed towards these guys.

[DCAmiga]

Mmmm Ritz shaped A1000/A2000 boxes yummo!
Yeah When I was 13 about 3/4 of my games were copies (usually pirated), X-Copy Pro and DF0 & DF1 did wonders
I copied most from my neighbour who had a source (dunno where or who), so I would randomly copy some (5 floppies worth) of his weekly games to try out on my 500.

[dannyp1]

I was always of the opinion that a person had a certain budget for software and he usually spent that amount regardless of the amount of pirated goods he had.  Like was stated, why would piracy put Commodore/Amiga out of business and nobody else.  There was and is piracy on all platforms.

[ElPolloDiabl]

Mmmm Ritz shaped A1000/A2000 boxes yummo!
Yeah When I was 13 about 3/4 of my games were copies (usually pirated), X-Copy Pro and DF0 & DF1 did wonders
I copied most from my neighbour who had a source (dunno where or who), so I would randomly copy some (5 floppies worth) of his weekly games to try out on my 500.

Downloaded off BBS sites most likely. My cousins friend did that; left the modem on all day while he was at school. What a racket! :roflmao:

[vidarh]

I bought what I could afford, which wasn't very much. I also pirated like crazy when I couldn't. Thing is, without access to pirated games and programs, I probably wouldn't have bought my Amiga in the first place as it was too expensive for me to justify for just a rare game here and there.

I'm not so sure how much of an effect the piracy really had, in that respect. I'm sure some people who could've afforded more games took the cheap option out, but I also know first hand that a lot of kids that bought Amigas and bought the occasional game never would've bought anything at all if they couldn't pirate, as they wouldn't have had any reason to buy the machine.

I think it is/was more of a problem of the market at the time. Today the average gamer is old enough to have plenty of disposable income. Back then, the average gamer was a kid that had to scrounge up pocket money and/or save up from low paid after school jobs.

[Belial6]

I can't think of a single media industry that wasn't BUILT on piracy.  Movies, Home Video, Software, Music... You name it, they all got built on piracy.

[Tension]

I bought a CD32 game in 1996!! Just remembered that!!

[runequester]

I did buy some games. From memory, the two mortal kombat games, space hulk, historyline, alien breed 2, combat air patrol and one or two other titles

[whabang]

I'm not condoning piracy here, but I have gone back to pirated versions several times, even though I've owned the original game. It's usually because of the draconian copy protection schemes, but also because I always loved the little chiptunes played at boot.

I still do it; my Dragon age box is still in it's plastic wrapping, and I have played it through several times.

[runequester]

Thats not even new. I remember a friend buying Jaguar XJ220 for the amiga and it wouldn't run on my 1200. THe cracked version runs just fine.

[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...