A Trainz license per PC?
- Thread starter Lataxe
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Well.... some food for thought, from all these posts.
A second license: given that it's so inexpensive (for Trainz 2010 at least) I'm inclined to buy one just to please the Auran lads. That does seem to follow the strict letter of the license agreement.
Mind, it can be argued that any software license that restricts the user in how the software can be employed should allow at least two loads/user - e.g. one on a desktop and one on a laptop or other second-location machine. Many folk have two computers, for all sorts of reasons. They are generally only using one computer at a time. Even Adobe allows 2 loads/user-license for Photoshop, which is otherwise DRM'd up to the gills.
On the other hand, Mr 001's suggestion that I try TS2012 is tempting; but will it run all that TS2101 content I have spent so many hours bodging into my own little routes and sessions? One reads of problemettes in these forums. TS2010 seems just right for me and I learnt a long time ago not to imagine greener grass over a hill. (Of course, that grass might actually be greener or even lusher - but it might also taste of fertiliser).
Don't know about you but I find the whole modern software licensing practice rather annoying. It's probably an old-fashioned attitude (as I am now officially an ole scrote) but it annoys me that I can't resell my old software (or even give it away) to someone else when I've done with it myself. Many programs require registration before they work properly but this same registration prevents others from inheriting the license should I wish to transfer it. It feels like both a waste of a resource and a rip-off.
Still, we votes with our wallets I suppose. But when I'm dictator it'll all be different!
Lataxe, probably too law-abiding (I don't speed, litter or despatch vivisectionists either).
PS Mr 18278 - get thee behind me, with your tempting links!
A second license: given that it's so inexpensive (for Trainz 2010 at least) I'm inclined to buy one just to please the Auran lads. That does seem to follow the strict letter of the license agreement.
Mind, it can be argued that any software license that restricts the user in how the software can be employed should allow at least two loads/user - e.g. one on a desktop and one on a laptop or other second-location machine. Many folk have two computers, for all sorts of reasons. They are generally only using one computer at a time. Even Adobe allows 2 loads/user-license for Photoshop, which is otherwise DRM'd up to the gills.
On the other hand, Mr 001's suggestion that I try TS2012 is tempting; but will it run all that TS2101 content I have spent so many hours bodging into my own little routes and sessions? One reads of problemettes in these forums. TS2010 seems just right for me and I learnt a long time ago not to imagine greener grass over a hill. (Of course, that grass might actually be greener or even lusher - but it might also taste of fertiliser).
Don't know about you but I find the whole modern software licensing practice rather annoying. It's probably an old-fashioned attitude (as I am now officially an ole scrote) but it annoys me that I can't resell my old software (or even give it away) to someone else when I've done with it myself. Many programs require registration before they work properly but this same registration prevents others from inheriting the license should I wish to transfer it. It feels like both a waste of a resource and a rip-off.
Still, we votes with our wallets I suppose. But when I'm dictator it'll all be different!
Lataxe, probably too law-abiding (I don't speed, litter or despatch vivisectionists either).
PS Mr 18278 - get thee behind me, with your tempting links!
The grass in Galgate (well just outside is green), the grass in Wales is covered in sheep droppings.
If you wanted remote you could have gone to Cockerham sands country club, oh how I laughed out loud while driving round the last corner on to the front, had to stop and compose myself before delivering there. Had an ear to ear grin all the time which turned into a snigger now and again.
If you wanted remote you could have gone to Cockerham sands country club, oh how I laughed out loud while driving round the last corner on to the front, had to stop and compose myself before delivering there. Had an ear to ear grin all the time which turned into a snigger now and again.
kenneth18278
Member
Ah, but Lataxe,
Resisting temptation is good for the soul. It is also a right pain in the buttocks, so when I saw those Patriot and Jubilee locos I cpuld not resist. Weak and self-indulgent, I know, but I had been looking for them for some little while. Being from Leeds in God's own county, back in the day when the world was young and the sun always shone we had both LMS and LNER providing rail service, and the route I'm working on, though fictional, is going to reflect that.
And, temptation is sooo difficult to resist.
Ken
Resisting temptation is good for the soul. It is also a right pain in the buttocks, so when I saw those Patriot and Jubilee locos I cpuld not resist. Weak and self-indulgent, I know, but I had been looking for them for some little while. Being from Leeds in God's own county, back in the day when the world was young and the sun always shone we had both LMS and LNER providing rail service, and the route I'm working on, though fictional, is going to reflect that.
And, temptation is sooo difficult to resist.
Ken
Fran,
Well, I used to live in Dolphinholme Bottom End (or Lower Dolphinholme, to speak posh) just up the road from here. Now that IS the land of The Hillies & The Billies! There WAS always a funny lookin' lad sat on the step, although he played a gob-organ rather than a banjo. There were internicine feuds of a violent kind. The wimminfolk did go wild on Satyrday nights at The Fleece Inn. Fellows dressed in dungarees and little else in summertime. Cockerham is quite modern & civilised, in comparison.
Gallowsgate is also modern. We have a canal, you know, albeit the new railway did for its trade in 1820summick. We used to have a railway station here too but that Beeching bloke did away with it before I arrived. Now the ugly Virgin pendulums (or whatever they call them) go trolling through Galgate, full of business persons going to London from Scotland (or vice versa) for no discernible reason. No one else can afford a ticket - not that you'd want to travel on such a boring train unless you had to, especially when full of businessmen.
These days the older railway lines hereabouts have all turned into cycle paths. Still, one can thrust along such trails upon the two wheeled-steed, pretending to be a Duchess. I have been seeking a portable whistle to replace the bell for some time now.
Ken,
Ye be a tyke, eh? Of course, as an ex-Geordie I must therefore regard you as a soft southerner.
There are too many Trainz temptations scattered around the electronic aether, are there not? That Paulz Trainz site has all sorts of pretty thangs in it. I did a small virtual shop of the many, many railway gew-gaws and fripperies I would ideally like to play with. The Very Large Sum at the bottom of the page shocked me back into my normal muckle-counting mode. The trick is probably to buy just one or two items now and then, so one never sees this Awful Sum Total.
Being a Tyke you will understand only too well the tension between the pleasure of owning things and the fact that one must open the wallet to acquire them.
Anyway, it makes ten quid for an extra TS2010 license seem like nuffin.
Lataxe, still looking for old-fashioned British electric trains to go with Class 76 & MSJARs.
Well, I used to live in Dolphinholme Bottom End (or Lower Dolphinholme, to speak posh) just up the road from here. Now that IS the land of The Hillies & The Billies! There WAS always a funny lookin' lad sat on the step, although he played a gob-organ rather than a banjo. There were internicine feuds of a violent kind. The wimminfolk did go wild on Satyrday nights at The Fleece Inn. Fellows dressed in dungarees and little else in summertime. Cockerham is quite modern & civilised, in comparison.
Gallowsgate is also modern. We have a canal, you know, albeit the new railway did for its trade in 1820summick. We used to have a railway station here too but that Beeching bloke did away with it before I arrived. Now the ugly Virgin pendulums (or whatever they call them) go trolling through Galgate, full of business persons going to London from Scotland (or vice versa) for no discernible reason. No one else can afford a ticket - not that you'd want to travel on such a boring train unless you had to, especially when full of businessmen.
These days the older railway lines hereabouts have all turned into cycle paths. Still, one can thrust along such trails upon the two wheeled-steed, pretending to be a Duchess. I have been seeking a portable whistle to replace the bell for some time now.
Ken,
Ye be a tyke, eh? Of course, as an ex-Geordie I must therefore regard you as a soft southerner.
There are too many Trainz temptations scattered around the electronic aether, are there not? That Paulz Trainz site has all sorts of pretty thangs in it. I did a small virtual shop of the many, many railway gew-gaws and fripperies I would ideally like to play with. The Very Large Sum at the bottom of the page shocked me back into my normal muckle-counting mode. The trick is probably to buy just one or two items now and then, so one never sees this Awful Sum Total.
Being a Tyke you will understand only too well the tension between the pleasure of owning things and the fact that one must open the wallet to acquire them.
Anyway, it makes ten quid for an extra TS2010 license seem like nuffin.
Lataxe, still looking for old-fashioned British electric trains to go with Class 76 & MSJARs.
kenneth18278
Member
Lataxe,
Eee ba gum, lad, the potential for extravagance with Trainz is practically limitless, and you're right. Being raised in the tradition of being canny wi' me brass means I try to be discerning in my purchases. Problem with that is, there is so much good stuff out there it would sometimes seem rude not to support the lads and lasses who put so much skill, effort and ingenuity into their creations.
So, again I find meself in the unusual, not to say impossible position, of having to agree with someone from the woad-painting tribes of the far-flung northern wastes.
Still, on a more consoling note, one or two items as and when will see a steady accumulation of assets to suit every occasion.
With regard to your electrics, have you tried googling "Trainz BR Electrics". It might work.
Ken
Eee ba gum, lad, the potential for extravagance with Trainz is practically limitless, and you're right. Being raised in the tradition of being canny wi' me brass means I try to be discerning in my purchases. Problem with that is, there is so much good stuff out there it would sometimes seem rude not to support the lads and lasses who put so much skill, effort and ingenuity into their creations.
So, again I find meself in the unusual, not to say impossible position, of having to agree with someone from the woad-painting tribes
of the far-flung northern wastes.Still, on a more consoling note, one or two items as and when will see a steady accumulation of assets to suit every occasion.
With regard to your electrics, have you tried googling "Trainz BR Electrics". It might work.
Ken