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Introduction

Conventions
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All commercial vendors, developers, publishers, and repair shops should be
listed here.  "Major" PD/freeware/shareware developers should also be listed.
Persons or entities holding rights to products, but not selling or supporting
them in any way, are NOT listed here.

"Vendor" = Reseller of products produced by others.  Types of products
sold are given in categories: new hardware, used hardware, PD/freeware/
shareware, (new) commercial software, used (commercial) software.

"Developer" = Producer of products.  Titles of products produced by the
developer are listed.  No product can be developed by more than one
developer.  No prices are given.

"Publisher" = Publishes a print or disk magazine, or a book.  Complete
subscription or ordering information should be given, including prices.

"Repair Shop" = Can repair many 8-bit Atari and related hardware devices.  Be
sure to make advance contact before sending anything to work on!

Entries are presented alphabetically by company name, or publication
title.  If no company name exists, a personal name is used.  "See"
references indicate complete information may be found under the given
heading.  "See also" references indicate closely-related information may
be found under the given heading.

When writing to request catalogs, it's always a good idea to include a
Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope.  When writing to foreign firms, try
enclosing a couple of International Reply Coupons (IRC's) as well.

Super-Brief Copyright Primer
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Commerical software - protected by copyright, may not be copied except for
           personal archival purposes
Shareware -protected by copyright, may be freely copied and distributed,
           shareware payment required for continued use
Freeware - protected by copyright, may be freely copied and distributed,
           no payment required for continued use
Public Domain software - NOT protected by copyright, anyone may do anything
           with it, period.

Software is protected by copyright from the moment of creation.  No copyright
notice is required for copyright protection.

Software does not enter the Public Domain unless explicitly released to the PD
*by the copyright owner*.  If there is no copyright notice, software must be
considered Freeware rather than in the Public Domain.

My article "Intellectual Property Protection for Computer Software" appeared
in Atari Classics, 3(1), 1994, pp. 4-7, or see:
http://www.library.carleton.edu/staff/michael/acarticle.html

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