Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-04-08 Thread Chris White
> [>Andrew Collier wrote:] > Colin MacDonald can distribute FRED how he likes, including free-of-charge > by anonymous ftp. > This is not the same as declaring the software to be PD, which I still > don't think he can do. I haven't signed anything which would allow him to > change the legal status

Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-04-08 Thread Andrew Collier
At 10:05 am +0100 7/4/99, Aley Keprt wrote: [>Andrew Collier wrote:] >>Well like I said, I think issues 1 to 12 are on ftp.nvg already but I doubt >>there are plans to upload any more. It's all a very hazy area, but to >>declare those FRED issues as PD would be changing the legal status of some >>

Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-04-08 Thread Andrew Collier
At 9:50 am +0100 7/4/99, Aley Keprt wrote: >>The Lyra 3 is already there in .dsk format. That was done weeks ago. I >>know, because I did it myself. >> >Great! But why didn't you anounced it? >I think many people wait for Lyra 3 (incl. me :). I did... At 4:00 pm +0100 6/3/99, Andrew Collier wrote

Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-04-07 Thread Aley Keprt
>At 5:21 pm +0100 29/3/99, Psycho Billy wrote: > >>> How do you mean, "PD yet?"? Copyright will not expire, as such, >>> until 72[1] years after the copyright-holder's death. >> >>Sorry pedant ;-) - I meant has Colin declared any issues PD, and if >>not, why not? There can't be much sales volume

Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-04-07 Thread Aley Keprt
>Aley Keprt wrote: >> (As you know, you cannot assign one suffix to several programs in Win32. > >There can only be one associated application to handle a double click, but >there's no reason why we can't use a shell extension DLL that adds one or >more items to the context menu when you right cl

Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-04-07 Thread Aley Keprt
>>I would be really happy if someone will convert at least teledisk files to >>sad/dsk (The Lyra III etc.). > >The Lyra 3 is already there in .dsk format. That was done weeks ago. I >know, because I did it myself. Great! But why didn't you anounced it? I think many people wait for Lyra 3 (incl.

Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-03-30 Thread Darren
IIR It ended up with Saturn Software - who basically said "blow it" and passed it to George Boyle David L -Original Message- From: Psycho Billy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 29 March 1999 16:27 Subject: Re: Forlorn plea.

Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-03-30 Thread Andrew Collier
At 5:21 pm +0100 29/3/99, Psycho Billy wrote: >> How do you mean, "PD yet?"? Copyright will not expire, as such, >> until 72[1] years after the copyright-holder's death. > >Sorry pedant ;-) - I meant has Colin declared any issues PD, and if >not, why not? There can't be much sales volume in issues

Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-03-30 Thread Ian Collier
On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 08:47:13PM +, Andrew Collier wrote: > How do you mean, "PD yet?"? Copyright will not expire, as such, until 72[1] > years after the copyright-holder's death. > [1] Or was it 75?[2] Actually it is 70 years after the author's death. > Wouldn't that be nice? I was going

Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-03-29 Thread Psycho Billy
> >Hello - > > > >I've just found out that there were 21 issues made of SAM2Sam. > >Which is a bit of a surprise. > > Hang about... Sam2Sam was *your* magazine, wasn't it?? How can there > be any more issues than you know about, did you compile them in your > sleep or something? Gave the rights t

RE: Forlorn plea...

1999-03-26 Thread Si Owen
Aley Keprt wrote: > (As you know, you cannot assign one suffix to several programs in Win32. There can only be one associated application to handle a double click, but there's no reason why we can't use a shell extension DLL that adds one or more items to the context menu when you right click on a

Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-03-26 Thread Gavin Smith
Andrew Collier wrote: > [>Gavin Smith wrote:] > >> Agreed! Although it's still quite hard to get SAM formatted disks > >> from my floppyless iMac... > >> > >You don't need formatted samdisks on PC. It is possible to format > >floppy disk on the PC (of course), and then you can put the sad/dsk on

RE: Forlorn plea...

1999-03-26 Thread Andrew Collier
At 2:21 pm + 25/3/99, Aley Keprt wrote: [>Gavin Smith wrote:] >> Agreed! Although it's still quite hard to get SAM formatted disks >> from my floppyless iMac... >> >You don't need formatted samdisks on PC. It is possible to format >floppy disk on the PC (of course), and then you can put the sad

Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-03-26 Thread Andrew Collier
>Hello - > >I've just found out that there were 21 issues made of SAM2Sam. Which >is a bit of a surprise. Hang about... Sam2Sam was *your* magazine, wasn't it?? How can there be any more issues than you know about, did you compile them in your sleep or something? >Any news on previous issues of F

RE: Forlorn plea...

1999-03-25 Thread Aley Keprt
> >> And one other thing - why not start converting nvg files to .dsk >> format seeing as it is just as easy to use on a PC, and yet can >> also be back-written onto a SAM format disk. > > Agreed! Although it's still quite hard to get SAM formatted disks > from my floppyless iMac... > > G

RE: Forlorn plea...

1999-03-25 Thread Gavin Smith
JohnnaPig wrote: > I've just found out that there were 21 issues made of SAM2Sam. Which > is a bit of a surprise. It's a surprise to me, but how could it be a surprise to you?! :) Did Rob make some without you or something? > And one other thing - why not start c