Dark, As a developer, I must disagree with the 'need' aspect of your statement. Liam doesn't 'need' to do anything - he created the program with intent to sell it, and he has every right to simply take it off the shelves and let it rot if he wishes. He's under no obligation to release anything ever, and IMHO it's not our place to tell him what he should or shouldn't, can and cannot do.
If we, as a community, really want those games to be available and archived for future generations, I propose that we contact him with intent to buy the games and keygen from him. For a sufficient price, he can probably be convinced to turn over everything, as long as someone else deals with the support issues. If we can't come up with a price he's comfortable with, it's not his fault, and we shouldn't pester him further. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 10:50 AM, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > I'm afraid I disagree phil on the selling of keygen software. That is okay > while it's still being sold, however if as Justin did the software was sold > for a limited time and then stopped you've effectively done the same thing > in denying games to future gamers even on virtual machines etc. > > If Liam is not planning on updating the game to work on modern windows, > either he needs to keep selling them with the proviso that you must install > the vb6 dependencies to get them to work, or he needs to make them > abandonware and allow key generation for free just as Thomas Westin did with > terraformers or David greenwood did with Trek 2000. > > That is the only way to stop them falling off the map forever. > > Beware the Grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
