Re: Unreleased IIGS Software

[zb@vault.ae.net (Zaphod Beeblebrox)]

On 28 May 1997 14:26:30 GMT, guenter@student.uni-kl.de (Marvin) wrote:

>Your pseudonym seems to indicate that you know enough about bueraucracy.
>Ground is a 'legal' site, so it is reserved for Freeware, Shareware
>or PD and it is referenced by all legal eagles with a black and white
>view.

>On the other hand, Asimov is a "goddamned pirate site", and thus it is
>reserved for everything else. Vogons won't make any difference between
>ten year old pirated software and new pirated stuff.

Hoopy.  Thanks for clearing that up!

>.shk images seem to be the most reliable format for 5.25" disk, although
>useless for emulators. .dsk images on the other hand, can't
>handle some uncommon disk formats. I'm currently shrinking my 5.25"
>disks to .shk format. 

Since you can use a utility like NULIB to convert .SHK -> .PO, I
figure you're a single step from your disk image either way.  So I
wouldn't call it _useless_.

>Feel free to upload anything to my ftp site, and I will make it
>available. Only PD please! (I'm no Vogon, but I don't want to
>be thrown into the open space by one of them ;-)

So has anyone compiled a list of what commercial and shareware
software has been released to the public domain?

-//- ZB