teledisk (was: 8 inch floppies on PC's (was: TRS-80 Model II...

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Sat Oct 31 16:22:02 1998

Bill Yakowenko wrote:

> If you are referring to teledisk, it is worth noting that they no
> longer offer a single-user non-commercial license; they stopped
> offerring it as shareware in 1991, and is now solely a commercial
> product with a licensing fee of $150. The shareware version that
> can still be found out there is now "warez" - illegal, copyable
> only by pimply-faced HaKkErZ with bad breath and no morals. :-/

Hey, I don't have pimples <g>

> I exchanged e-mail with them recently about this, and though they
> were polite, they refused to consider licensing it for less than
> their stated price.

Really nice since they got their start by everyone else paying their way for
distribution, marketing and testing back in the BBS days. The makers of Telix
communications are just as bad, if they're even still around, just as the
makers of ProComm (DataStorm?) are to this day.

> Anybody know of any reasonable alternatives, for those of us that
> are hampered by rules against theft? I suppose I'll eventually
> write my own, but my schedule looks pretty well jammed clear into
> the next millenium.

My guess is that you don't use Windows and that you don't want one of the
older shareware Teledisks?
Received on Sat Oct 31 1998 - 16:22:02 GMT