Re: Spectrum Automated Mailer

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:58:34 -0400,
<Use-Author-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote:

>Only if they have Spectrum. I was unable to buy Spectrum in a
>usable form.

While I agree that it is in the best interests of a company to try to
keep their customers happy, you have to keep in mind the normal method
of distribution for a system.

For the Apple IIgs, the standard form for distributing software is on
800K 3.5" floppies.  If someone is selling a piece of Apple IIgs
software, it will come on floppies and pretty much every IIgs in the
world can make use of them.  E-mail attachments and CD-ROMs on the
other hand can be used by very few IIgs'.

I had originally written a longer reply but I realized it all came
down to a simple statement.

If you are using an emulator and don't have a real IIgs (which raises
some possible legal issues by itself) then you don't really have much
right to complain about people selling Apple IIgs software only on
floppies.  If you want the software it is up to you, not the company,
to get the software into a useable form.  Whether this entails getting
a real IIgs for making disk images or going to a friend's place and
using their Mac with a floppy drive or IIgs to make images from is up
to you.

By the way, this too was not a flame.

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