Re: Einstein Compiler

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

bobryan9@my-deja.com wrote:

> 1)research what you are interested before you buy it

Not always easy to do. Checking a vehicle identification number before
buying a car is one thing, checking on the status of each program on 20
some disks in a thrift store is a bit different.


> 2)don't post to an Apple II newsgroup that you have a ware and don't
> know its status, it isn't original, and you previously were involved in
> alot of noise reguarding pirated software. (ok thats just to avoid
> looking like and being a hypocrite.)

If I was a hypocrite about this, I wouldn't have asked. I would have just
gone ahead and used the software. I did know that the Beagle Bros. copies I
picked up were now freeware, so no hypocrisy there. I won't be using the
compiler until and unless I learn that it is freeware, or shareware and pay
a shareware fee for it. If I release a program of some type, I'm sure
someone like Rudy or Paul could figure out if it was compiled BASIC or
assembly language (esp. since this seems to be an 8 bit program.)


> You should find out if it is a freeware/shareware/pd product
> BEFORE you do ANYTHING with it, including BUYING it.
>

You must have missed the post above Bob. I was buying *used* disks. Some
have programs on them that I might or might not want to keep. Since my
source of new 5.25" DS/DD disks has dried up, I'm now reduced to buying
*used* disks. I was buying disks, not programs.

>
> The damage is already partially done.  Somebody took the $0.50 that you
> spent on it and bought themselves a pack of gum.
>

Well, I hope Goodwill had a fine time with the gum.

Roy