Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Ian Thompson Newsgroups: playstation.ny.program.questions,scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics,scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics,scee.yaroze.programming.codewarrior,scee.yaroze.programming.gnu_compiler Subject: Re: Dear Sir... Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 14:43:11 +0000 Organization: Mantis Software Lines: 40 Message-ID: <364EE87F.BB55A768@mantis94.freeserve.co.uk> References: <7158bk$fj62@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <363A04CD.E0EA3EBA@mcmail.com> <363D9C4C.3974@bton.ac.uk> <363D9EE0.4684@bton.ac.uk> <363DA1D8.6A0@bton.ac.uk> <363DB13D.12B9188@mcmail.com> <363DEBB7.14FD@bton.ac.uk> <363DF383.765B@dma-design.com> <363E46B6.930FF336@hinge.mistral.co.uk> Reply-To: ianthompson@mantis94.freeserve.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-5.argon.dialup.pol.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk playstation.ny.program.questions:205 scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics:737 scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics:1019 scee.yaroze.programming.codewarrior:414 scee.yaroze.programming.gnu_compiler:285 Craig Graham wrote: > Brian Baird wrote: > > > BJD3 wrote: > > > > > > Now don't get me wrong - I'm not condoning piracy; I just feel that > > > Angel has become a bit of a scapegoat for anti-piracy emotions. And > > > that. > > > > > > Another thing; you are insinuating that these people are using PsyQ for > > > 'mailcious intent' - now what exactly is malicious about writing games? > > > These people are doing virtually the same as us - writing games for the > > > PlayStation. The difference is, that these people are using source > > > aquired unofficially, and are not being supported by Sony. They have the > > > same goals as us, and are not evil or anything like that. > > > > "Acquired unofficially"? Acquired *illegally* is what you meant to say, > > surely? They may be developing games, they may be swapping their own > > sources - but all their development tools are pirated. > > Actually, as PsyQ (SDEVTC) is GNU based, I doubt that anyone copyingthe > compiler itself is breaking any law at all......the librarys are a different > matter of course......and I've seen the debugger that is used (Caetla) and > as an assembler debugger I've got to say it's better than the serial port > stuff the yaroze uses..... > > > Brian @ DMA > > Craig @ Intelligent Video Games Ltd. Caetla! Nothing to do with the PSX AR replacment ROM used by the hacks? IAN