I pretty much agree with what you and thomas said. Unfortunately it
appears that the contact form on the site is broken. It doesn't help
that Justin is a very private man (I'm not aware if he has a facebook or
twitter profile that we could reach him), which is a real shame since it
would be a good idea to contact him.
I'll say the way he worded his email did sound like he's just going to
release everything for free, but sadly that's not happening... at least
not through his website.
On 2013-04-18 18:43, dark wrote:
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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