Re: Apple games on CL

[Brian <bpicchi@gmail.com>]

On Apr 17, 11:02 am, BLuRry <brendan.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:15:19 PM UTC-5, Jesse wrote:
> > On 2013-04-17 16:44:00 +0000, Sean Fahey said:
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> > > On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 11:37:40 AM UTC-5, Brian wrote:
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> > >> Holy collection, Batman!  As I was reading the through the list I just
>
> > >> assumed these were all cracks, copies, etc, but they're all
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> > >> originals!
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> > > Look again - those are copies, with printed labels. Nicely done, but
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> > > those aren't the original labels.
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> > This is almost a bit fishy… I don't recall being able to create labels
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> > like that easily (or cost effectively for that matter) during the
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> > period those games were sold.  Though I guess in the early 90's the
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> > technology was becoming somewhat common.  Do you think these are more
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> > modern copies/labels?  They don't show any photos of any of the printed
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> > materials but I wouldn't be surprised if those were all reproductions
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> > as well given that I do not see any legit 'original' disks in the
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> > photos.
>
> Ok, let me put it into perspective with this question:
>
> He does not have the computer to test it with, so he hasn't really kept track of things in the // community because he's moved on.  No problem right?
>
> Then how does he know that the number of disks equals the cost of the blank media as per his description?
>
> Busted.
>
> -B

But why not just sell on ebay and make a bundle then. Maceffects has
been doing it successfully for a long time (www.ebay.com/itm/
271053473376?).  He sells copied Apple II games and system disks with
his own labels for $12-35 and the labels aren't anywhere near this
convincing.