Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!jade!ucbvax!decvax!savax!thompson From: thompson@savax.UUCP (thompson mark) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Installing MarbleMadness! in RAM: Message-ID: <668@savax.UUCP> Date: 10 Dec 87 15:02:47 GMT References: <19084@bbn.COM> <3126@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Organization: Sanders Associates Inc., Nashua, NH Lines: 40 Summary: Discovery Software Stinks In article <3126@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, hsgj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Dan Green) writes: > In article <19084@bbn.COM> cosell@bbn.com.UUCP (Bernie Cosell) writes: > > > >I'm not sure quite where to ask about this (can one ask the MarauderII > >folks directly?): what I'm trying to do is get MarbleMadness to run > >out of RAM:... > > What this implies is that Discovery Software is really marketing > Marauder II as a pirate's tool. I think the people at Discovery > Software are a bunch of dispicable hypocrites. > > I have "Discovered" a new place for Discovery Software. It is called > the toilet. > > -- Dan Green First of all, yes, you can contact Discovery software directly. When I purchased Deluxe Video 2.0, I did this because the version of Maurauder II I had couldn't back it up. Since I had just purchased the upgrade from Maurauder to Maurauder II, Discovery sent me an updated Brain file to backup DV 2.0 . HOWVEVER, don't get the foolish impression that these upgrades will always come cheap. Not by a long shot!!! First I bought Maurauder at $35. This was quickly obsoleted by new protection schemes. So can I get new copy codes? "NO, we don't support Maurauder anymore, you should upgrade to Maurauder II, for a mere $18 (I think thats what it was)" Of course this is only a few dollars less than I could have bought it for without an upgrade at a mail order software house. So I spring for the new program. Its not upto date so this time upgrade is free. Now Brain file number 9 is out. Upgrade? "Sure, for a mere $18". ~:-[ What the hell is going on here!!??!! It seems to me that afew years down the road, maintaining an upto date Maurauder could add up to a few hundred dollars, a bit ridiculous for backups. $5 I could accept. Its probably not unlikey that brain files will fall victom to piracy for this reason. If so, Discovery won't get my sympathy! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Mark Thompson | | decvax!savax!thompson <-- Center of the Universe about | | (603)885-9229 which all revolves | --------------------------------------------------------------------------