> Van: Nick Humphries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: Re: Elite > Datum: Thursday, November 05, 1998 11:44
> It is a bit of a kick in the teeth for those people who wanted to do ports of > games to SAM but couldn't because they couldn't get permissions from the > original licencee. Now here's a precedent which basically says you can port > any game to the SAM, charge what you like for it and, because sales are so > low, get off scot-free because it's not worth the rightful copyright owner to > sue. It's piracy by any other name. Just keep reminding yourself that all games still have a copyright owner, the Larry Demo comes to mind, Stefan had serious thoughts about making the whole game, but then Sierra is a very big company. Still the Demo is good fun on the HCC-sinclair meetings and in two weeks time on the "HCC dagen", not bad for a rather old demo. Braben not being difficult about Elite does not mean than we can port any game we want. Mind you, Bob was just lucky in this case. So who did actually pay for Bob's version of Elite, bwahahaaaa :) > Just think - if this happened five or six years ago, the end result would have > been Prince Of Persia being sold for the Speccy, and probably a LOT more ports > over to the SAM. It would have made the status of the Sam quite different from what it is today. And give most people on this list a almost god-like status :) -- Robert van der Veeke, aka RJV Graphics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Currently listening to : Magic Knight Rayearth - Best Song Book
