Re: Cracked Software

[Eric Jacobs <mkjacobs@erols.com>]

Supertimer wrote:
> 
> Gabriel Morales <Togega@concentric.net> wrote:
> 
> >       What bothers me, though, is that the software (in it's original form)
> may no
> >longer be available. I like to play games without "Craked by Whoever" screens.
> >       Is there some formal organization dedicated to the task of preserving
> older software?
> 
> It IS pretty disgusting to see molested programs like this.  I mean, it is
> one thing if no one sells the programs any longer and Asimov has
> them without hurting anyone.  It is another to actually put a "pirate
> badge" on the programs.  Quite an insult to a programmer, actually.

It is worthwhile to note, however, that many older Apple II programs
have proprietary disk formats and their OS's will not read standard
format disks. Therefore, simply dumping the disk on a 143360-byte .DSK
file on asimov is not helpful to anyone without modifying the OS in
some way to make it compatible with ordinary DOS 3.3 disk formatting.