Posted By
James
on 2001-03-28
|  About downloadable games in the US:
United States copyright law allows for a copyrighted work to be protected for the life of the author plus 50 years, or 75 years from first publication in the case of a company or distributor owning the copyright.
There are some titles that were published here that may not have been released over in Europe, but they're usually text-based such as a lottery prediction program and an update to the built-in software.
My wife purchased a software title at one time that showed David Johnson as one of the programmers, and was released by a California company. When I have time, I intend to try to contact this person to see if he is the same David Johnson who wrote the Plus/4's built-in software, and if so to try to get permission to redistribute his update on the Internet for the benefit of those who could not obtain it 15 years ago.
Tri-Micro was the company founded by David Johnson and his wife to distribute computer software. They took it upon themselves to try to keep the Plus/4 alive here in the States. Most of their other software was licensed from other companies and independent authors.
But I will, when I find the 'ultimate' catalog, post a list of what they had available in 1988.
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