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Remember the Rainbow?

Posted by strom on April 27, 2005

After seeing some new developments in the gaming world, I am not having much fun. We are about to repeat some of the same things we went through during the dawn of the PC era in the mid 1980s. Do you remember way back when with copy protected software, and incompatible disk media formats? Do the names Ashton Tate and DEC’s Rainbow mean anything to you?

Here is how gamers are about to repeat this history.

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