YosemiteBear

On a post script point, I do recall long ago spending hours coding in Warmus and HACK into the school's computer network by hand. all that time makes one appreciate those that do innovate much more. I recall when Microsoft made it it's mission to eleminate Basic programmers that were hobbists. There were pirates back then too, but the most damaging software to your average computer came from Norton or Microsoft....

after interacting with recreational softs and seeing various copy protection schemes come and go, I am finally liking the sane copy protection here and there. I am fond of old school shareware, willingly paid my support of software that I liked, and deleted that which I didn't like. H... I even sent an Email to Tim Wiseman of VGA Planets fame two years ago, along with my paypal pointing out that I had supported his beta of Planets 1. (he refunded me