At 1:12 pm -0500 19/2/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Software only has a short life in the eyes of copyright so i cant see there >being a problem dumping them on the web.
I don't know where you get that idea from. Anything ever released for the Sam will still be under fully enforcible copyright ... of somebody. The question is, of who exactly? In some cases it will be the authors, but in many cases it will not. While I've no objection to my own stuff going up, not all of it is yet because there are or were other people involved whom I'm unable to contact (i.e. Syncytium) This topic has come up on sam-users several times before, and the general consensus seems to be that, for the moment, the whole issue of copyrights is too complicated - enough people care about copyrights that such an archive would be a legal minefield. Maybe it will become easier a couple of years down the line. Just because you see a lot of software on the net doesn't make it legal. Sites such as World Of Spectrum rely on the fact that publishers have given them permission to distribute software, or have turned a blind eye. But several companies have asked for their games to be removed, and they're absolutely within their rights to do that. And, Dean, I don't want to be rude but I think the responsibility for compiling a Sam archive should lie with the people who've owned and used the machine for the last decade. We know what's out there because we remember it from first time round, and we remember why we thought it was exciting. (Or is that just me?) If anyone else compiled it, it implies that the Sam is merely of historical interest, and even now I don't think that's true. Just my 2p. >Can everyone let me know how much ram they have so i can continue writing. I >estimate that the game could be on 2 or 3 disks but well have to wait and >see. I have 512K. I think most people will have 512K. Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier ---- ---- http://mnemotech.ucam.org/ --- -- r<2+ T<4* cSEL dMS hEn/CB<BL A4 S+*<++ C$++L/mP W- a-- Vh+seT+ (Cantab) 1.1.4
