Re: Building An Apple ][ Software Archive

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

Thanks Joe for the informative response below. Can you also enlighten us as
to whether those programs are protected by copyright, while the distribution
is free? I think was I more than a bit loose with my use of the term
"freeware."

Roy

Joe Kohn wrote:

>  >but I don't know of any packages which are freeware on one
>  >platform and still being sold on another. Does anyone know of
>  >such a case? AND where the copyrights are held by the same
>  >people?
>
> Two words: Brutal Deluxe.
>
> Several of the IIGS games released by Brutal Deluxe as freeware are ports
> of commercial games which were sold to Mac and PC users. Two such games
> that come to mind are The Tinies and Cogito.
>
> The Mac/PC commercial games were developed by Kallisto, a French company
> that includes several programmers who got their start programming for the
> IIGS.
>
> Brutal Deluxe is friends with Kallisto, and received permission to
> release freeware ports of the games for the Apple IIGS.
>
> Joe Kohn
> http://users.foxvalley.net/~joko
>
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