Subj : Re: copying superkit? To : David Evans From : Alien Tech Date : Mon Nov 18 2019 03:11 am Someone was just telling me about Ben Fuller and I dont know him. I did V1 and V2 and refused to give them V3 since they did not pay the royalties promised.. So I think they released V2 with some of the stuff already done like the dual disk file copier etc.. I had faster stuff done and when their check bounced just put it out as shareware and made like $90 on it from the $3 from 30 people.. So instead of finishing up V3 I did wrap speed for cinemaware and then Vmax\s last update for ATG. As was the case everywhere, I stopped giving them updates when their checks started bouncing.. Which meant immediately.. So they were left using the copies they already had. I would have liked to know if Ben ever got any money.. I talked with quite a few people at prism who tried to get me to give them updates. All were lets sell a few copies and we will pay you but not even a little money for all the previously sold copies and almost sent in the updates but waited 2 days just in case and got the $100 bank charges for bounced checks... After that it was just pay fully and they stopped calling. On Monday, August 21, 2000 at 12:30:00 PM UTC+5:30, David Evans wrote: > In article <8nrrne$v99$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, wrote: > > I have lost the docs to this program, so I cannot check this - but > >the disk may have been keyed so that only a certain number of copies > >can be made from the original. This sort of scheme did exist then. > > It might also just notice that it's copying itself and FUBAR the copy in > some way or set a flag. Pretty simply to do. > > > As I remember, when Superkit was released there where lots of > >problems with the software working on certain 1541 versions. > > True. The secod version was much better than the first in this regard, I've > bene told. I have the second version. I think that the second one introduced > the 128 boot sector and the ability to load specific utilities using > LOAD ":*4",8,1. > > SuperKit/1541 was great software, though: I used it for years. Too bad > Ben Fuller's SuperKit/Amiga was't anywhere near as good. The MFM editor was > kind of cool and the cycling colours with the sample of Trans-X's "Living on > Video" at the start was a good gimmick but the actual tools were a little > dissapointing. Project D wasn't much better IIRC. > > > -- > David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca > PhD Student, Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ > University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer > Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .