Hi Tom.
You said it yourself, it's because! he's not offering support or continuance
of the software in the future that makes this different from a closing down
sale. also, I feel he is bein greedy because he is not considdering the fact
that unlike when any other shop closes, you won't be able to get the stuff
anywhere else in the future, compatibility not withstanding. While I
appreciate that he hasn't the time to continue writing and supporting
software, he could at least give the tools to leave something to posterity
rather than as he appears to be squeezing as much prophit out of the
situation on a short term basis and not giving a dam about anyone else
further down the line. Indeed, if i! had put work into making such a great
bunch of games as Justin, I'd myself prefer people were free to play them in
the future rather than just trying to grab quick cash.
A great example of this is Eamon. in the year 2001, the Eamon users club
shut down since nobody had written anything new for the system either
freeware or commercial in 7 years, but it was all collected onto the
website. Now, 12 years later, frank is rewriting the system into Eamon
deluxe, and the full source code is available, meaning that people like me
who never had original systems back in the 80's are still very free to play
eamon adventures, even on a completely different os to what they were built
on.
We've seen examples of this in the accessible games community with Dan
Zingaro, Terraformers, Self destruct, savage gammet and indeed the pb
games, so there is plenty of pressident.
I do agree asking Justin's opinion might be a good idea on this, but if he
maintains his view, then it wouldn't surprise me if people do! distribute
the bundle of the bsc software after the company has shut down just to give
everyone the chance to play such classics, even if mucking about with vb
compatibility is needed thanks to microsoft's scummy update practices.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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