I think you've misunderstood me Andrew - so let me spell it out.
I am a gamer. I have been playing games for roughly 20 years, across many
different formats. It's a hobby, something I love. I have many great
memories of games from the past. Which is why I find the whole emulation
scene fantastic. I can download and play games I was playing twenty years
ago for nothing. It's great to be able to play Jetpac again for example, and
3d deathchase. They were great days.
So when I stumbled on the excellent SIM Coupe, I was delighted. I thought
the SAM scene as dead as the computer, but I was wrong. Thanks to people
like Simon Owen, Chris Pile, Colin Piggott (who seems to think I've got
something against him for selling software) and others it's still alive. So
I downloaded two of my favourite games, Lemmings, and Prince of Persia
straight away. And it was great to be able to play them again without
rummaging through the attic.
There was just one snag - where were all the other games? So I posted this
question to this list, and I discovered they were owned by Persona. What
games I wondered (and asked 3 times)? Well I don't exactly know.
Now to cut a long story short, I AM A GAMER. I'm not a programmer. That is
all way over my head, as I've admitted before on previous posts. So when I
asked was F16 Combat Pilot owned by Persona, I learned it wasn't. And I was
asked could I upload it to the FTP site. So I then posted a link to a site
where you could download the original demo in TZX format - and I asked for
help to get it up and running.
Never once have I been sarcastic to those who are trying to do me a favour.
I'm stumped, I haven't a clue, and I would dearly love to play it again. Do
you honestly think I'd be sarcastic to any person(s) who could help me in
that? Indeed, if you look at a previous post to Dan I specifically pointed
out that if I could help with anything I would, even though I'm not the most
knowledgeable on these matters.
All I was getting at was the idea of selling something which belonged to
someone else to a company that I believe is doing the same thing! It was
meant to be a light hearted poke at the irony of such a thing....but
obviously this has been miscontrued. Any offense which I have unwittingly
caused I regret.
All I want is to be able to download SAM games the way I can with just about
every other computer format you can mention. There are at least two others
on this list that want the same thing - what is so wrong with it?
From: Andrew Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: F16 Combat Pilot download
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 15:57:33 +0000
On Friday 08 Mar 2002 3:48 pm, Fred Bloggs wrote:
> Sarcasm most definitely intended.
You're asking people to do you favours, so perhaps you should be a bit more
polite about it. No offense, but you obviously have no idea what the issues
are, or ever were.
Most of my own programs are available for download (see .sig), with a
couple
of exceptions which are way beyond my control.
Andrew
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