Re: Apple II Sound.. sponsor the project!

[Scott.Alfter@skunkworks.genesplicer.org (Scott Alfter)]

In article <3441824@f10.n209.z1>,
Philip Lamb  <p.lamb@student.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>What I am looking for is sponsorship. I tried getting people to register their
>programs but it seems that you Apple II users out there are good at grumbling
>and moaning about how no one writes for the II, while all the time you use
>Shareware without paying for it.

Hmm...as the individual who started this whole concept of digital audio on
8-bit Apple IIs, I'm a bit troubled that you've taken someone's
freely-available source code and decided to sell a derivative work as
shareware.  I have Michael Mahon's source code (5-bit DAC with 2x
oversampling at ~11.025 kHz) floating around somewhere on my system, as well
as a 4-bit DAC from someone whose name I unfortunately don't remember (maybe
it's in the docs I wrote), but which was a derivative work of my original
3-bit DAC.  To the best of my knowledge, all of the above-mentioned products
were either freeware or free software (in the GNU sense).  I know it's been
eons since I updated SoftDAC (the last version used the 4-bit DAC code,
played sounds out of RamWorks memory, and was callable only from a shell
such as Davex or ECP-8--and was covered by GNU copyleft), but it disturbs me
a bit to see that someone would attempt to make money off of the efforts of
other programmers who put forth their wares at no charge.  

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