CongealedWalrus wrote on 06.08.08 at 01:32:07:

Sorry about that, but I wanted to express my gratitude even though it would read like a whole lot of ass-kissing!

Hehe, it makes a happy break from all the flaming we get :P


CongealedWalrus wrote on 06.08.08 at 01:32:07:

Plus I also found my old Atari in the attic and all of the Atari love flooded back.  I hope all my disks still work and perhaps there are some rareties in there.  I will not be able to check them for a little while as the ancient hardware is acting up.

That's great! If you need help in transfering disk images to real floppies or vice versa, you can check out some hints here. We are interested in finding some missing BBC menus, so if you have them in your diskbox, we'd be grateful if you could share them with us!


CongealedWalrus wrote on 06.08.08 at 01:32:07:

The D-BUG/Automation history is interesting!  And I asked about what you would call yourselves because the term "hackers" has quite negative or destructive connotations and since the nature of your organisation(s) is so creative, it seemed to me like the wrong term.  "Pirates" is good but sounds eqally destructive.  Piracy also seems to apply equally to people downloading software as well as those modifying it.  Perhaps an appropriate term does not exist.

Well.... If you like a game, you go and buy it. Simple as that. Try a demo or a cracked version before you buy, but buy it. Piracy doesn't kill the industry. People do.