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Mirage bites back (Popular Computing Weekly) |
MIRAGE Microcomputers, which was barred from ihe last Amstrad Computer Show because its Imager could be used for piracy, has reached an "amicable arrangement” with Amstrad and the show organiser Database Exhibitions The new Mirage Imager III will transfer tape software to disc but serialises the result, so copied software can only be run if the original imager is present. Rival company Romantic Robot modified its copier in the same way in order to gain admission to the previous Amstrad show. According to Mirage director Derek Robinson the company's intention to sue Database over its banning from that show was expressed in "a heated moment" , and the two have now resolved their differences. Mirage's Imager III now has the approval of both Amstrad and the Amstrad User Club, and Robinson describes this as "part of the amicable arrangement." Popular Computing Weekly (1986-12)
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