blindsoftware does have a twitter and facebook and official messages
could be put through those things.
I heard that someone on here has contact with the support person of
blindsoftware privately now we could use that contact to get justin
to at least make a statement or come on here if its possible.
It would be better for us all if the games were freely avalible officially.
Ofcause I and others would unofficially distrubute them keys and all
but its better morally if its allowed legally to though with
blindsoftware gone...
At 05:25 AM 4/19/2013, you wrote:
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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