Re: LZ: any one have the registered version of McMiks or Asteroids ?

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Re: LZ: any one have the registered version of McMiks or Asteroids ?

Amen, Ryan!

If there are any authors out there that need financing, I am proud to
announce the "TIM FINANCING VENTURE STORE" 
Sned me your requests for money, and I'll send it for exchange of your
programs!

Keep up the good programming.

-TIm



On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Ryan Myers wrote:

> According to the pathetic little moron that is NTCHRIST:
> >I would like the registered versions of these two games and i dont want
> >to pay for some measly calc game . Its not that i dont want to pay its
> >the work involved . please send the programs if you have them . 
> >
> >                                                      NTCHRIST
> 
> Do you honestly think that we do this for fun?  The people who took the time
> to author these games ( and remember that these must be programmed in
> assembly, and most decent games take up to a month ) for your fun and
> enjoyment would appreciate at least some credit, if not a measly one dollar.
> If you are so pathetic that you would want to break a law merely because you
> are too lazy to put two pieces of paper in an envelope and put a 39 cent
> stamp on it and drop it in a box ( colored bright blue so that morons can
> easily identify it ), you need to get your head checked.
> 
> Also, it discredits us, as we put a lot of work into these games for
> everyone, and share the source code so that others can learn.  It is not
> some "measly game".  I have been working for nearly 2 months on SpyHunter
> and Tempest as an example.  The whole point of ZShell 4.0 and Fargo was to
> share information and fun - you put it all to shame.
> 
> And if someone was equally pathetic as to give the games, they force the
> authors to come up with even more annoying ways to ensure that we get some
> sort of recompense for our work.  It has already started in the form of
> large graphical credits to combat the original ZGenie.  Do we really want
> what has happened to the PC and Mac shareware scene, where you have manual
> protection, and requiring dongles or CDs in the drive, or passwords, and
> $35-50 registration fees to combat people spreading our hard work???
> 
> I paid for the registered version of Asteroids ( MC.Mic full version is not
> completed yet to my knowledge ) and like it MUCH better... why not just find
> the measly change in your couch and buy it?  That way, I don't have to flame
> people.
> 
> PS:  If anyone posts the registered version on LZ, LZB, LZ-Adv, or
> TICALC.ORG, I will be QUITE unhappy.  Resulting in a nasty email to your
> system operator about posting registered software on the Internet.  It
> sounds ridiculous to do this about a calculator, but I want to stem off
> anything that will make the ZShell programming scene more troublesome.
> Programming is hard enough as it is, and even harder when you combine it
> with having any sort of social life.
> 
> Get a life,
> Ryan J. Myers                      ----> rmyers@inetarena.com <----
> 
> Portland, Oregon ( US )   ----> http://www.inetarena.com/~rmyers/ <----      
> "Nolite tes bastardes carborundum." - Margaret Atwood 
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> or the little green men that have been following me around all day.
> 
>
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