Re: Apple II cassettes by Brutal Deluxe Software

[Saint Isadore Patron Saint of the Internet <tadapope@gmail.com>]

On Jan 1, 1:25 pm, "Bill Garber" <willy4...@garberstreet.com> wrote:
> <and...@vbc.ms> wrote in messagenews:hhlohd$qi$1@Kil-nws-1.UCIS.Dal.Ca...
> > isn't this piracy - the same thing you chastized turley for doing?
>
> Hardly! Turley was accused of offering software still being
> sold for free. Even I get that and I don't know the whole
> story.  :-)))
>
> Bill Garber

Right - but nobody can actually prove any of it - it's just a pile of
rumors
and misinformation.

That's right Garber "Hardly " just don't cut it.  People need
conclusive
proof without any doubt of what I was accused of - not just sloppy
third
hand gossip.  Clearly we both have different concepts on piracy of A2
software.  I've done a ton of good things for the needs of the A2
community
--- a lot more good than harm.

Collect your thoughts then carefully reveiw the full contents of;

http://www.apple2.org.za/gswv/me/

I think that link gives the fully
opened and honest me, what I did then and now.

Check out these carefully also and then make your personal judgements
about me and what all I did for the A2 world of a positive and
productive
way.

http://apple2.org.za/gswv/USA2WUG/

http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ground.icaen.uiowa.edu/Mirrors/umich/8bit/

http://apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/GS.WorldView/

http://apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/GS.WorldView/

http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ground.icaen.uiowa.edu/

ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/

There is nobody on Earth that can give proof without a reasonable
doubt
that I did any of the bad, bad things that labeled me as the 'Grand
Old A2
Pirate'.   Most of you have done some of the very things behind your
little
closed basement doors on your Apple II computers that I've done but, I
don't
see to much of the many efforts to bring old and important Apple II
software
with their src. codes into the public domain or make them available to
others
as abandonware online.  In the purely semantic definition of it - sure
I pirated
lots of abandon Apple II software NONE OF IT commercially still sold
and
made it freely open and available thru others who see fit to
distribute it for A2
users to download, have access to and enjoy it -I did that simply to
hoping keep the
Apple II platform alive and self generating with both software and
hardware
projects for the Apple II user to have access to (and it seems to have
worked too).

So hey - call me what you like and then after you review everything I
did and
show opened claim to having done - check the scales to see if it shows
more
good and beneficial actions for the A2 users - than any bad things I
got trashed
over when I sincerely never actually did that stuff that I was branded
and labeled
as having done.

I hope all of you have an enjoyable and rewarding 2010 with the Apple
II platform,
be it in a real Apple II machine or one of the many A2 emulators for
the Mac and PC.

Apple II Forever!
Tom