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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!

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