Subject: Re: More about GEOS...and...piracy?
From: supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)
Date: Fri, Jan 1, 1999 23Ç470
Message-id: <19990102014757.27649.00005609@ng40.aol.com>

labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth) wrote:

>FWIW, I am not advocating piracy. I guess it may seem that way though.
>(However, have any of you tried to buy GEOS anywhere recently?) I actually
>own GEOS for the IIe and C128, but either a couple of files on my GEOS IIe
>disks are bad, or the version I has is simply heavily copy-protected. (I
>get odd errors within GEOS when trying to do certain things)...That's why
>I needed some of the files off of someone else's disk. I guess, if you
>have a very stringent definition of the word, that may put me down as
>having 'pirated' it, somehow. But, I wanted to put it on a HD, and use it
>in GSOS, and without this, I wouldn't have been able to.
>
>But, if you do own GEOS, and you would like to put it on your HD or need
>help figuring out how to do what I have done...or perhaps I can even help
>you with it if you provided images...then contact me.
>At first I thought it would be nice to make a perfect image of it (no
>one's name stamp on it) and put it somewhere like an FTP for everyone, but
>then I realized that that would most likely be...wrong... and I *could*
>upload it *with* the namestamp, but...then that person's GEOS is getting
>needlessly spread around.
>So perhaps, I will see if I can change to name to
>something...suitable...not a promise that it will be something I will
>throw around to everyone, but it was a thought.

Hi, I own a protected version of GEOS.  I can't make disk images
of my legal copy for you to modify, but I would like to install
it on my own hard drive.

Problem: my version of GEOS does not recognize SCSI hard
drives.

I would like to get a copy of your GEOS.SYSTEM file, the one
that a hard drive install creates, so that I can run GEOS from my
hard drive.  I'm sure the copyright eagles won't object.  I mean,
GEOS.SYSTEM by itself is useless without all the other files
that come on the GEOS disks.  I have those on my licensed copy.

BUT, I don't really want to see someone elses name stamp
every time I launch GEOS.  I read someone else on csa2 has
an unstamped copy.  Maybe you can get in touch with him
and get the unstamped copy, create GEOS.SYSTEM with it
(using a Sider equipped Apple II system) and use that as the
copy you would make available.

In case anyone is wondering, you can't use a simple block
editor to change the name stamp.  It is coded in some way.

For those of you wondering about how GEOS runs on an
accelerated GS, imagine GS/OS on a 12.5Mhz TWGS and
multiply that speed by two.  GEOS runs so fast because it is
an OS that is much simpler and smaller than GS/OS.  It does
less, that is true, but it is nice to have in addition to GS/OS.