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Posted by Kieron Wilkinson on 14-Dec-2002 23:46 GMT | Hi Guys,
I am glad people here know what CAPS is about, thanks for putting people straight. It is nothing to do with warez, cracks, hacks or anything else.
If nothing else, you should know that the founder of CAPS is one of the Amiga games developers from the time, with classics like Abandoned Places 1 & 2 + others. Can you imagine how these people feel when the only versions of they games that are easy to get hold of are those with "Cracked by XXX" where their name should have been in the credits? Never mind piracy, that is just sad.
Anyway, CAPS will have nothing for download from the site, you can only have the images if you own the game. This is not for us to decide, but we won't help people pirate games.
I personally own well over 1000 original Amiga games. Was I just going to stand by and watch them suffer magnetic media bit rot? NO WAY! So I joined CAPS.
If ever I saw a set of people (some of which are hardcore Amiga collectors like me ;) who have a passion for Amiga games - it is these guys.
I absolutely REFUSE to sumbit to the fact that in the years to come, the only thing we will be playing is cracks - because the original disks died (TDK quotes the average like of a floppy disk to be 5-10 years - how old are all those Amiga disks?).
Anyway, so we not have a image format that allows all our Amiga ORIGINAL games to be preserved forever (and we can guarantee that they are unmodified from the original mastering, as hard to belive as that may at first seem - see the WIP's for details). The number one purpose of CAPS is to keep our (and anybody elses) originals working, so we are working on hardware and software solutions to write the images back to disk.
Also, for those that upgrade to AmigaONE / whatever, these images can probably be used in emulators etc.
Anyway, this is why we started it, this is why we love it now we have pretty much completed the technical aspect, and this is why we want to help other people in the Amiga community benifit from our efforts.
We have also be contacted (them to us) by several (I think 5 now, but I could be wrong, something like that) major games developers / companies who want to offer the CAPS images from their sites.
Just so you know!
Any questions, please mail us at: questions@caps-project.org
Thanks!
One more thing. We do not own any rights to the games other than owning them ourselves, so we have no right in doing any of this other than it being a hobby. CAPS stuff is free, and always will be free. Unless copyright owners want to use CAPS images to market their past works, then you will legally only ever be able to get hold of CAPS technology for free. We don't even have banners on the site.
This is how much we believe in what we are doing. We just hope that other people can benifit (non-finantially ;) from our work.
Anyway, I talk to much... :) |
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