Re: [Audyssey] Fwd: LWorks An update including questionsandanswersregarding Super Liam and Judgment day

2014-09-08 Thread Charles Rivard
to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2014 11:14 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Fwd: LWorks An update including

Re: [Audyssey] Fwd: LWorks An update including questionsandanswersregarding Super Liam and Judgment day

2014-09-08 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Unfortunately, while it is all well and good for an end user to say companies should make software, especially an operating system backwards compatible, he or she is likely unaware of the technical aspects of what they want. They are unaware of the complexity or the difficulty

Re: [Audyssey] Fwd: LWorks An update including questionsandanswersregarding Super Liam and Judgment day

2014-09-07 Thread dark
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

Re: [Audyssey] Fwd: LWorks An update including questionsandanswersregarding Super Liam and Judgment day

2014-09-07 Thread Dennis Towne
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

Re: [Audyssey] Fwd: LWorks An update including questionsandanswersregarding Super Liam and Judgment day

2014-09-07 Thread dark
Hi Dennis. You are certainly correct that Liam has ownership of the programs being their creator, however equally given the lack of size of the audio games community and the lack of games available, there is rather more impetus riding on each game than in a usual development setting. There

Re: [Audyssey] Fwd: LWorks An update including questionsandanswersregarding Super Liam and Judgment day

2014-09-07 Thread Dennis Towne
Dark, I still disagree. He has no responsibility or duty, and no matter how rare those kinds of games are, it is firmly not his problem to ensure they get freely released. Feeling entitled to always have these games available for any reason, whether because the games are uncommon or because

Re: [Audyssey] Fwd: LWorks An update including questionsandanswersregarding Super Liam and Judgment day

2014-09-07 Thread dark
Hi Dentin. I didn't say we were entitled! to the games, only that the scarcity of such makes them far more important than developers might realize, indeed this is why Justin Dobemire has recieved so much flack after vanishing with the Bsc titles. I don't know what you mean about assembling

Re: [Audyssey] Fwd: LWorks An update including questionsandanswersregarding Super Liam and Judgment day

2014-09-07 Thread Dennis Towne
Comments inline. On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 6:42 PM, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: [snip] I don't know what you mean about assembling the necessary cash for a key generator sinse I'm not sure what the negotiation would be, sinse to have the system actually be of bennifit for the hole community the

Re: [Audyssey] Fwd: LWorks An update including questionsandanswersregarding Super Liam and Judgment day

2014-09-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Wile I can certainly sympathize with your point of view I still disagree with it on principle. It isn't the responsibility of the developer, in this case Liam, to continue to make his games available regardless of how large or small the market is. Even if Super Liam was the one and only

Re: [Audyssey] Fwd: LWorks An update including questionsandanswersregarding Super Liam and Judgment day

2014-09-07 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, You see, that's where we differ in opinion. I don't think Liam needs to do anything here. You are em plying that people need these games to continue to be available even though modern technology makes it unlikely they will continue to run on modern hardware and software for ever. Sooner