January 21st, 2008 by Benj Edwards
“…and that’s why every time you copy M.U.L.E., a kitten dies.”
“Oh God, Bill. You’re making me cry.”
[ Scanned from Popular Computing, 1984 ]
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January 21st, 2008 at 4:10 pm
The guy on the left is about to get his clock cleaned. Or possibly asked out. Or maybe both.
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:55 pm
All those bootleg copies of DOS 6 certainly destroyed Microsoft. Thankfully, that led to the current dominance of OS 2 Warp XVI – the other OS for people who want to be chained to proprietary hardware.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:39 am
Let’s get this out of the way:
DON’T COPY THAT FLOPPY!
Thank you.
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:35 am
I wish I hadn’t spent so much time copying C64 games in the ’80s… I may have learned to program the thing better! Crime doesn’t pay! 😛
January 25th, 2008 at 8:17 am
OMG, M.U.L.E.!! Haven’t thought of that in decades. Good gosh, they don’t make like that anymore…
February 1st, 2008 at 11:07 am
The guy on the left looks like Al Gore. Wouldn’t he support unofficial copies of software without all the greenhouse gas-emitting packaging?
February 2nd, 2008 at 10:26 pm
This certainly convinced me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xfqkdh5Js4 .