Re: Apple II Sound.. sponsor the project!

[Philip Lamb <p.lamb@student.canterbury.ac.nz> (Philip Lamb, UoC-ChCh-NZ)]

Scott.Alfter@skunkworks.genesplicer.org (Scott Alfter) writes:
> 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.

A couple of important points here. While Michael Mahon's source code was the
basis for IISound, I largely rewrote it to allow it to run over auxiliary
memory, which is quite a sibstantial change. And also, while it is essential to
the program, it is only a 100th of the total code. I have spent probably a
couple of hundred hours developing the sound loader, the user interface, the
multiple sound handler, without which the playback code would be useless except
to other machine language programmers.

If you think that it was acceptable and usable in that form, I think you are
wrong. I doubt you have run IISound, but I suggest you do, and THEN say that
you don't think my work is worth something. Even should you then say "Well,
everyone else did it for free, you should too" I say that is simply not
possible. Michael Mahon sold his sound.editor program which uses the playback
code to softdisk. I considered a similar move, at Michael's suggestion, but
decided that this would limit the II users that IISound could reach.

In summary, what I am really charging for is the interface code, as
that is what I will be working on, and I just cannot afford to work for the
goodwishes of II users alone.

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