Indeed. Sounds good to me. I still have loose plans that one day I'll resurrect FRED, but I'd need to sort out a few personal things, as well as get enough support drummed up to ensure it lasted!
In the meantime though, I don't see any problem with giving permission for say, the first fifty (50) issues of FRED to be available for download from the FTP site. I should add that copyright would still remain with original persons, blah blah blah. C. > Right, > > Lets get our act together and get some of the sam-users ftp site > turned into .dsk format stuff. Anybody got a real SAM running > who'd be willing to get some of this stuff converted over? > > And anybody got anything else to add up there - those 128k > conversion must be fair game now as most of the stuff is > availablce for the Speccy. > > Colin M - can we stick the FRED issues up there yet? It seems a > shame that lots of people will be unable to see some of the earlier > stuff now that they're SAM's have crawled under the stairs. > > Surely the point of WinCoupe will be to maintain everybodys > interest in the SAM rather than letting them all toddle off into PC > obscurity and leaving the SAM to fade into the distant memory. > > Oh, and Happy Birthday SAM...I guess you must be ten years old > by now. > > (I know this is a regular gripe of mine - people not letting go of the > rights to SAM software - but unless we try and free up some stuff > to use on WinCoupe - and stuff that will keep people interested - > it's going to be of little value to either the PC or the SAM community. > At least we can keep the interest there if we keep gettign fresh > stuff put out on the ftp sites for free. Even if those who own the > software rights distrubted it and kept tabs on who had copies - > making them register to get stuff down for free...at least then > they'd get a list of potential SAM software purchases...) > > Oh, and one very final thing... > > What's the big release for teh SAM this Christmas...har har...? > Peace, Love and Kisses... > JohnnaPig Teare > http://www.theunstoppablesexmachine.freeserve.co.uk > "It won't get better, but it might never get worse..."
