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      HOW TO SAVE OUR BELOVED COMPUTER
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  This is the most thought thru idea i ever
 encounterd, people who wont support it are
        either so stupid or Pc users.
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I got this file from Dalamar and it was supposed to be given to the leaders
of the top cracking groups in the amiga world, but this idea is so great
so i asked Dalamar about releasing it to the public amiga scene and he agreed.
So please read thru this file and decide for your self!


            ** Note: Read the whole file to get the whole idea! **


                         AMIGA RECOVERY PROGRAM

                      Idea  By:    Dalamar/Rob : Crisp/Franky
                      Writing by:  Dalamar


Be greeted, brothers of the sceene. Today I would like to present a
suggestion to you, or you can call it a plea if you want, since I'm
ready to go down on my knees to make you listen to it.

I've been walking with amiga by my side for as long as I can remember.
It has been a dear companion for me. We have shared all the fun, all the
tears, and all the dreams together for many years. In a way, It has been
the best friend I've ever had.

But now, my dear friend is sick. Very sick. He is dying. I don't think
anyone can disagree. Amiga is down on it's knees, to week to stand on
its feet, reaching out with a tiny little hand, once so powerful, and
begs us for help.

I cannot, I WILL not, just stand there and watch my best friend die, without
offering my help. And so I write to you, and hope that you are an honest man,
with love in your heart, not a cold blooded snake that can watch his best
friend die without lifting a finger to help him.

I have been around a while, and I hope I know the mechanics of the scene.
The things that make the wheel go around and around. On that basis I have
a suggestion, that I believe will work, and cure our friend. If not totaly,
so atleast it will give him the chance to stand on his own feet again, not
beeing dependant of every little help he can get. So listen me out.



The point of you guys cracking games, is not to play them. I don't even
think it's to give it to the people. I think the main force behind cracking
is PRESTIGE. FAME. ACKNOLEDGEMENT.
It is a competition. Who gets the major first? Who will crack it the fastest
and release it to the world to see that he and his group are the best?
That is the main core of what you are doing. We all want to be apreciated
for what we do. I understand that. Therefore I am not begging you guys to
STOP cracking games. That is what you do best. That is your bussiness.

No, you can go on cracking games. But I'd like to set up a whole new
system for it. A new set of rules. I don't believe those rulez will
change your activities that much. You will be able to go on just like
before, but with a slight change. And amiga will have a chance. I will
explain:

I suppose you all know that software is the most important thing for the
success of a computer. I will not explain that in detail, since it would
take up far too much space. But MONEY is the main thing. If a game for
Vic20 would sell 20 million copys, then There would be LOTS of games
produced for it, no matter how old it is. Software companys want to make
a profit. That's their motivation.

Amiga software is NOT selling satisfactory today. And yes, we all are to
blaim for that. Soft companies leave the amiga, after making losses on the
latest games they've developed. The thing is no one buys them. Not me, not
you, not anyone on the scene. I've checked that up through asking quite many
people, and no one could remember when he last bought an original. 90% of
all amiga users have access to an elite board. Games do not need to be
bought. They can be downloaded within 20 mins.

My idea is to raise sales of amiga games, to make companies interested
in trying out the market again, to keep you guys happy cracking, and to
keep the scene happy still getting majors. Sounds impossible eh?
not Necessarily. This is how I want to do it:

1. An CRACKER WHQ should be set up. I suggest an established board like
   BOONDOCKS, but may even be able to set up a board, ONLY for you
   cracker guys, with no one else in it.

2. You go on and try to get hold of originals, and crack them as usual.
   nothing changes here.

3. The change comes here. When you have cracked the game, and are ready
   for release, you call this WHQ. You enter the special area, say we
   call it PRESIDENTS OF AMIGA area or something. And you upload the
   game THERE.

   Now, in this area, only YOU guys have access. no ordinary mortals, no
   other sysops, trainermakers, traders or whatever. Just you cracking
   group people. The true powerpeople.

   In this way it's VERY easy to determine who cracked the game first,
   since all crack will always be released on that board, in that area.
   So we will have a true winner on every crack. The group that will get
   full credit for it. The group that wins the copyright to release it.

   No other group needs to release their own crack of the same game,
   2 hrs or one day later. Now, here comes the tricky part. the part
   that will help amiga.

4. The group that releases the crack first, gets the COPYRIGHT for
   releasing the game. it's them, and no one else. But you will NOT
   release it right at that point.

   An X-factor will be decided by all of us. Say 60 days. That means,
   we decide who the winner is on the crack, but the game will not be
   released to public untill 60 days AFTER THE GAME HITS THE SHOPS.

   This way, the "lamers" will buy the game instead of waiting,
   especially if it is a good game or util, say Simon the sorcerer 3
   or Worms 2. Then even *I* As a sysop that seldom plays games, will
   go and buy it. It would be even better if the date is set to SIX
   MONTHS after shop-release.

* Now, that will ofcoz have its drawbacks. For starters, There will be no
  released majors in say, 2 months. SO WHAT?
  After that, the majors will come in in the usual rate, only difference,
  they will have been in the shops for 2 months. That is the DAMN FUCKING
  SMALLEST thing we can do for amiga. Let the game be avaible some time.


* Next argument, would be "but some lame group will release it anyhow,
  and steal our hard work, and our rightful credit and glory".
  Sure, I say, that is a possibility. A very logical possibility, but I
  can prevent it.
  All Sysops understand the situation amiga is in. Everyone I talked to
  Is ready to support me. For starters I have this chart, Dreamchart, that
  is the biggest chart on the scene for 2 years now without competition.
  In this chart there are apx. 110 boards, including all the best in the
  world, with very few exceptions (the german boards, I have no HQ there)

  Anyhow, traders also want to be famous. they prefer trading on boards
  connected to dreamchart, so that their name can show in the dreamchart.
  Dreamchart is right now including 7000 traders. To be in dreamchart is
  an important thing for many sysops, especially those already in.

  I will emmidiately set a rule for dreamcharts, saying that if ANY
  group does an "illegal" release, their release is to be nuked AT ONCE
  and their members are to be deleted from the board with NO CHANCE of
  entering again. If sysops don't follow that rule, they are blacklisted
  from dreamcharts forever.
  And It's my believe I don't really need that rule, sysops will understand
  and follow the rules without any threats, but just to make you guys
  more comfortable. Sure, they can release it on another board, but what's
  the point?

  It will not spread, since all good boards will nuke it as soon as they see
  it. AND the members of that group as well. And no matter if they release it,
  the trouth will come out. People will be informed of who the real winners
  of the release was, and we will give so much shit to the "lame" crackers
  they will be afraid to set their foot on this scene again. You guys are
  respected cracking groups, and if one group is going to get the rage of
  all of you together, they will wither and fall, crawling in the dust.
  Hated by the entire scene. This will be made clear to all in the scene.

  Breaking the rules, Will have heavy conseqences. It will be in the ul-rules
  of all boards. It will be as eall everywhere. The scene will support the
  idea. They will help. Especially if all you guys go out and support the
  idea. All you heavy groups. People look up to you. they respect you. they
  understand.



  That may sound like a dictatorship, and perhaps it is, but It's the
  only hope we have. We must reorganize the scene in some way, to make
  sure the goodies gets to the hands of the right people, those deserving
  it, and not in the hands of every lame non-scene person, whose only
  job to get this game was call a local bbs, and using the only key he
  knows, d , to get the game days, sometimes weeks before it is released.



Now, ok you say, suppose we agree to those terms. But we don't think that
will help SHIT. There will not be more amiga games just coz of this.

And I say it will. You see, nothing like this has ever happened to a
computer before. This is a world firstie. I will contact all computer
mags and papers, and tell them the story. Believe me, many will write
about it. It's a great thing to have in a paper, either as a note, or
as a full article. Even Mac and Pc papers. All are affected by piracy.
All are against it. they ARE going to write about this. It will be
great headlines for them. You know... PIRATES SAVE THE AMIGA? Maybe
they are going to make a small suggestion in the PC magz, like "maybe
this is something the pirates on PC also would consider". You know
Magazines. This is a great subject for them to write about. Amiga magz
would do a bigger coverage. I will make sure to list all the groups that
are in this project, so that your names will be printed.

Anyhow, he positive effects will be that people will READ about it.
They will think. They will admire our spirit. Understanding will perhaps
rise in their heads. "that must be a good computer, that can unite those
people like that, and make them do such sacrifices to keep it".

But most important: SOFTWARE COMPANIES will read about it!

They will give it a second thought. Releasing a game for a platform, that
can GUARANTEE it will not be pirated, you must agree it will sound temptive
to them.

This is a faint idea, but I even think we can make a deal with some of them.
Like they give Us money, say £2-3000 to "bribe" the cracking groups, and
guarantee that their game will not be cracked. Maybe VISCORP will be
interested in supporting this idea in some way too. You guys can even help
the soft-companies make a good copy-protection. Coz there have to be one,
so the ordinary people can't just copy it to a friend.
The money will ofcoz be given to the group that gets the game first to the
WHQ. And just to be sure, If the board is down for an hour, we will have
an alternative whq too. Just in case shit happens when it comes to release.



Is those changes too big for you? Are you a bunch of conservatives, not
understanding that if you follow this path of yours, that you always
have followed, in a VERY NEAR future there will be NO MORE majors for
you to crack?

In that case, please atleast consider this option, brought to you by
Crisp and Franky:

The least thing we can do, Is try to prove that an amiga game CAN sell
good, and that it is worth for a company to develop a game, and that it
can get it's money back, and do a profit.

In order to prove this we need you to promise NOT to crack a major. Or
maybe 2 or 3. If you don't want to leave all majors be uncracked untill
they have been in the shop some days, atleast settle for a couple of them.

We would like you to suggest by starting with DOPUS 5.5

I know many people want that upgrade, and are waiting for it to be
cracked. What we can do, is all of you promise NOT to crack it, and go
together and write a textfile, explaining why. Also, we will incourage
people to buy it instead, registring, coz this program IS worth registring,
if any.

NO DOUBT, sales will be better then If we cracked it. Dopus will continue
to be developed.

We suggest Dopus 5.5 coz we can't think of anything else that is of high
quality. WORMS 2 would be terrific, but unfortunately it will, to my
knowledge, not be released, by roumor becoz the company expects too low
sales, depending amongst other things, on the fact that it will be cracked.

If we follow the 1'st option, the 2-6 month rule, I am sure they will change
their mind and see it from a new perspective. They will release it.

Anyhow, You guys have better check on the release market then us. We suggest
you do the same on 2-3 other GOOD programs, as with dopus. DON'T CRACK IT.
Explain to the scene, that it is a GOOD program, WORTH buying, and that
we all have to do sacrifices for amiga to survive. They will understand.

I think this text has gotten large enough. It is given to you, so that
you will know what this is all about. We are hoping that you will come
to our IRC conference, and discuss the matter. We already have gotten
promises from heavy cracking groups, that they will come, and that just
under the time it took me to write this.

So please, do read this text carefully, consider it, and HELP us, and
the amiga, to see a brighter day. To get some hope back. So that we can
Wake up in the morning and sit infront of the computer with joy, not
with sadness, knowing that our friend will soon die in a cancer, but
refusing to help him, just using him for our own sake untill the day
he dies, and then just toss him into a corner, replacing him with a
pc and shrug our shoulders. Please, Let's do something to save the amiga.

We have the knowledge of this machine, that VERY FEW people have. If we
can make this machine commersially profitable again, we will without doubt
have no problems getting one of the best jobs involving this computer.

My sacrifice, right here and now, was I didn't care for my exams, but
sat down several hours discussing this matter, and writing this text.
If I fail my exams, I will have no income, and have to sell my car.
But this is something I am prepared to do, for the sake of what I love,
what I believe in. If you aren't convinced untill now, there is nothing
more I can do. I can only thank you guys, and say goodnight. I will sleep
good, and will not have the death of amiga on my consious. I Atleast tried...

                                 /dalamar



P.S  In the conference, please try to direct your questions like this:
     Those in favour/against  the 2-6 month suggestion, direct your
     questions to Dalamar/Rob, since we know this part best.

     Those considering the Dopus & selected majors part, direct your
     questions to Crisp/Franky since this is their speciality.

     The purpose of this is to be able to give you guys as good
     information and arguments as possible.


.... Die on your feet, or live on your knees. It's time to make a stand .....


** NOTE: The conference has been held, and the result was:

           9 groups in favour
           4 groups against (qtx, hf, dat, lfc)


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iF tHAT iDEA wORKS i eAT mY mODEM !!!