Re: A86: Re: Assembly Studio 86 available


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Re: A86: Re: Assembly Studio 86 available




well...its still warez, just crappy old warez

-----Original Message-----
From: Klukan <renegade@bmt.net>
To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Thursday, March 05, 1998 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: A86: Re: Assembly Studio 86 available


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>Stephen Hicks wrote:
>
>> Derive is a commercial program that costs a lot of money...
>
>Yes, but the oldest versions are now Abandonware (basically free,
>unsupported software--perfect for people like me with a palmtop computer
>with decade-old hardware in it).  If you'll notice, the site I listed in
>a previous message was in fact for the HP 200LX.  Anyway, this has
>really nothing to do with TI Calculators, so I'll try to make this
>quick.  TGaArdvark wrote in a message that Derive would only work on
>computer slower than the 86.  Not true!  I run it just fine on my
>Pentium 120, as well as my palmtop (80x86 7.91 mHz), neither of which
>are slower than the 86.  This program is reported to work on the slowest
>4 mHz computers.  Also, I would like to again emphasize that most old
>software is not Warez, but Abandonware.  Warez is more recent
>software--within 6 years if I remember correctly.  Derive (1.14) was
>written in 1988, which was 10 years ago.
>
>-Jeremy
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