29 Jun
1999
29 Jun
'99
4:21 p.m.
Larry Walker wrote:
The centre-pin of the controversy was really the
hatred that some of the A2
programmers had for Asimov, an A2 emulator site that has a large library of no
longer sold or supported A2 software and has a policy of archiving old s-w and
then removing it if the owner objects. If you're a programmer for a rapidly
shrinking platform's s-w market, you have a vested interest in keeping programs
scarce. Which is a problem for a platform like A2 that has been around a long
time.
And yet I think that Asimov needs MORE software. There are many titles that
exist(ed) for the Apple that AFAIK aren't archived anywhere. A competing
site would also work too. Asimov does have mirror sites, but that doesn't
increase the variety of software.
The Commodore and Atari owners are openly happy about spreading old software
(I don't know how much software was produced for the Commodore vs. the
Apple, or what percentage of Commodore software vs. Apple software is
available).
People did complain about having their newly-created programs spread around.
That's a different issue.
-- Derek