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Thank you very much!  

This is the best compliment ever!

But still I'm going to report you!

So you have an exemption.  Congrats!
You have a single license. Only to be used for your own software.
But this only applies to you and not the software you are eventually spreading using the PowerBobs extension. If so then the volume license price of €49 still stands.

Since you don't use it (ahum) this does not apply to you and "considering it abandonware" = NOT giving the permission to spread the hacked/cracked version.  The nagging version still exists, so use that!  But you state you don't use it (lol), then you are not affected and are not entitled to give any "advise" on this matter and the doc supersedes all declarations regarding the "reversed engineered" or "denagged version" or whatever hacked/cracked version.  The doc clearly states that it is SHAREWARE and even  all cracked/hacked versions contain this copyright statement in the doc.
And since I've never spread the hacked/cracked versions the only valid version is the "nagging" one and I never said that  the hacked/cracked versions. are the same as the "nagging" version.  So the copyright still stands as described in all the docs of all versions.

That is totally fine by me.

The current "situation" concerning PowerBobs, so not TurboPlus since it does not include the SHAREWARE clause in the doc and may be used indefinitely for free, has changed since just everybody is and was taking advantage of the hacked/cracked SHAREWARE version of PowerBobs, as clearly stated in the doc that it is SHAREWARE and supersedes all other declarations. Facebook Intellectual Property Reports have been filed and have been acceoted by Facebook and the files have already been removed from the groups.

PowerBobs is also protected under the European copyright and GDPR laws and rulings so ANY software that uses PowerBobs has to be retired/removed  from the market/marketplace, paid or free versions of the software that uses non legal versions of PowerBobs.

PowerBobs did not have 1 or 2, but 3 protection schemes and the third one is fingerprinting and can be traced in the extension itself or in the compiled code and a complaint will be filed under the GDPR rulings to remove the infringing software immediately from any source available. Non-compliance or failing to comply will be reported and damages will be imposed to the amount of 1,000 times the price of the volume license.  The legal documents have already been drafted by my lawyer and will be used in the event of non-compliance with the rules stated above. The payment of a single license or volume license.

Thank you for your understanding Manuel André .J.S. de Roelants de Wyneghem de Grand'Ry Don'Roy

"- In the future, we will no longer use your plugin in any form in our subsequent possible new applications.", that is totally fine by me.

The current "situation" concerning PowerBobs, so not TurboPlus since it does not include the SHAREWARE clause in the doc and may be used indefinitely for free, has changed since just everybody is and was taking advantage of the hacked/cracked SHAREWARE version of PowerBobs, as clearly stated in the doc that it is SHAREWARE and supersedes all other declarations.

Facebook Intellectual Property Reports have been filed and have been acceoted by Facebook and the files have already been removed from the groups.

PowerBobs is also protected under the European copyright and GDPR laws and rulings so ANY software that uses PowerBobs has to be retired/removed  from the market/marketplace, paid or free versions of the software that uses non legal versions of PowerBobs.

PowerBobs did not have 1 or 2, but 3 protection schemes and the third one is fingerprinting and can be traced in the extension itself or in the compiled code and a complaint will be filed under the GDPR rulings to remove the infringing software immediately from any source available.

Non-compliance or failing to comply will be reported and damages will be imposed to the amount of 1,000 times the price of the volume license. 
The legal documents have already been drafted by my lawyer and will be used in the event of non-compliance with the rules stated above.
The payment of a single license or volume license.

Thank you for your understanding

Manuel André .J.S. de Roelants de Wyneghem de Grand'Ry Don'Roy

Hello,

Yes, you read that right.  PowerBobs has been abused - read hacked/cracked - since 2008 and it has always been and remained shareware at the price of €12,39 (back in 1997 = ≈ €23,25 in today’s money) so if you take inflation into consideration the price of  €14,99 for a single license and a volume license of €49,99 is just a fair and a dirt cheap price.

All PowerBobs distributions have been fingerprinted, the latest and state of the art protection scheme even today, and I can check even compiled programs for that particular fingerprint. 

So yes, there were not 1, not 2 but 3 protection schemes and the fingerprinting has never been hacked and or cracked. 
Having worked for financials institutions, IBM and FreeScale semiconductor implementing this state of the art fingerprinting was an easy task.

If you don't agree with the PowerBobs price scheme you must remove all PowerBobs commands immediately from your project or pay for a license (or use the free NAGGING version) and TurboPlusV2.15 has always been free so the above does not apply to it.

Kind regards,

Manuel Andre J.S. Roelants de Wyneghem de Grand Ry Don'Roy

IMPORTANT MESSAGE!

All use of the copyrighted and illegally cracked PowerBobs extension and all its variants like for example "AMOS_PowerBobs-ModVersion.zip", "PowerBobsDenagged", "AMOSProPowerBobLibDeNagged.zip" etc, but not limited to, is from this day on prohibited and all illegal versions have to be removed from all the "Files" sections or projects in ANY group AND from the internet. 

No commands pertaining to PowerBobs may be used without having a legal version of the extension, hence all PowerBobs commands have to be removed from any Amos/Pro source.

Single legal versions can be acquired by a payment of €14,99.

Volume license, for making a commercial product or freely distributed program can be acquired by paying €49,99.

If you go from single to volume license, of course you get the €14,99 single license cost deduction.

All requests for the extension, volume license or single one, should be send to: andre.manuel.j.s@gmail.com

Payment details will follow once mail request is received.

Manuel André

Wondering how many games and or utilities use one or both my extensions.

At least 1 other utility uses My Turbo_Plus extension:

- on github cbmeeks/TurboPlusSceneEditor

- © C. B. Meeks.

Also sometimes my Amos/Pro Turbo Plus extension is spread as the "Craft" or the "Craft2" bogus extensions programmed by me, Manuel André.

- AMOS_extensions on exotica.org wiki/Amos_Extensions

Thank you! Very much appreciated!
And now I'm going to visit Lemonamiga.com to see what it is all about...

Found out that the "List Games/Credited" that uses one of my extensions is not correct.

Another 2026 game produced by Michael Kafke "FreakOut" also uses my AmosPro extensions (both of them) with my consent.

Just fyi.

Does that mean that we are allowed to use any of your (AMOS) plugins or just this one in question?

- Yes, ANY of my extensions for Amos and or Amos Pro as long as you or any other user has my consent.
- The cracked  Amos/Pro_TURBO_PLUS 2.15 or any other version and PowerBobs (any version) automagically becomes legal when my consent is given and my 3 simple rules are followed.

1) So: you may not include my extensions in any format or any of your distributions, games, whatever...
2) This implies that you can only spread compiled versions, full or demos,  of the programs that use any of my extensions. 
3) Crystal clear and visible credit(s) must be included that your program, full or demo, uses any of my extension(s)
     Something like "made possible using Manuel André's [extension name + version ] but you'll figure out something nice.

"Planning" is NOT a certitude and it was never released into the PD.

Also from the docs written by me: "Since Manuel ANDRE is the only programmer involved with this package, he retains the rights to sell or distribute it without further notice."

You are using V2.15 and the docs are very clear about it.

I see that you understand my position and my request not to spread my extension(s) and that also  includes the Amos/Pro PowerBobs extension.

1) So: you may not include my extensions in any format or any of your distributions, games, whatever...
2) This implies that you can only spread compiled versions of the programs that use any of my extensions. 
3) Crystal clear and visible credit(s) must be included that your program uses any of my extension(s)
     Something like "made possible using Manuel André's [extension name + version ] but you'll figure out something nice.

I hereby give you the permission to use my extensions if you follow the 3 simple rules mentioned above.

And oh yeah, I just made this itch account to be able to communicate with you.

Kind regards,

Manuel André J.S. de Roelants de Wyneghem de Grand Ry de DonRoy  (or in short Manuel André) 

Kapellekuilstraat 16 B1
2340 Beerse
Belgium

email: andre.manuel.j.s@gmail.com

EBS: Since I cannot reply to your comment due to the stupid cloudflare check, the following:

From the TURBO_DocsV2.15.Asc included in the lha archive:

CONGRATULATIONS!

You have purchased the most powerful AMOS language extension 

available. etc etc

AND

Please do not give copies of TURBO to anyone.

I spent many, many long hours working on this and I think I'm justified

in earning a fair wage for it.

AND

Guess how many Manuel André's there are in Belgium?

1 just ONE!

Even stoopid Facebook finds me in a blink of an eye!

AND

http://aliensrcooluk.com/public/Amiga_AMOS_extlist.html 

Version 2.0 is a bogus version by the traitor Ryan Scott, this info can be found in the first paragraph of the V2.15 docs.

The version posted on Aminet is also bogus since it is just a demo.

So almost any version (99+%) of the Amos or AMOSPro_TURBO_Plus.Lib V2.15 has been cracked, spread and is used without my consent and is not even mentioned in the credits!

A claim? It is just a fact! 
And one can find me easy peasy in the AMIGA BASE group.
"!!!The game download has been suspended until further notice due to copyright claims!!!"

I see that the game makes use of the of my AmosPro_Turbo_Plus.lib V2.15 extension without my consent and even worse, it is the cracked version!

So all Turbo Plus commands and functions have to be removed immediately!

Elaborating:

I, Manuel André, worked thousands of hours coding my extensions and created a special protection routine, using Amos/Pro internal routines, that took 8 years!!!! to crack!

Would any of you accept that one uses your hard work for their project without asking or trying to reach out to you? And besides, they entice users to pay for their illegal work!