I am curious as to whether any of the EV Webboard membership can offer any assistance with the following matter.

I have been trying to contact the makers of an older EV plug-in called "Omega Faction 1.0", released waaaaay back in 1996 by a team called Dark Horse Software operated by Ben Wooten and Andrew Lester. Does anyone out there have any idea as to where these individuals can be contacted? I have tried the email domains wooten@vircomm.com, andy.lister@vircomm.com and DarkHorse1@aol.com all to no avail as no such addresses exist. A careful search using Google.com showed no evidence of a "Dark Horse Software" or any of the above people.

My reason is that I am very interested in using three ship graphics in their plug which are absolutely ideal for my current EV plug-in EMPIRE OF CRIME and had wanted to get heir authorization to do so.

If these people cannot be found, I assume I could use the ships, give full credit in the support documentation along with an explanation of my attempt to track them down and, should anyone get upset, I could always ussue an update removing the ships. Would that be appropriate 'EV etiquette'?

Can anyone help? Much thanks in advance.

Kindest Regards,

Tim

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**If these people cannot be found, I assume I could use the ships, give full credit in the support documentation along with an explanation of my attempt to track them down and, should anyone get upset, I could always ussue an update removing the ships. Would that be appropriate 'EV etiquette'?
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I know that you have been looking for information on this for a while, Tim, and I think that if no one has come forward by now with contact info, then no one ever will. That said, what you're left with is the question of the ship graphics and whether using them would be okay.

I'm sorry to suggest that using this ships in this situation would be inappropriate. I base that on the responses I got to this very question, which I posed (as a hypothetical) on the EV Dev Corner. Click on the link below to see the entire thread:
(url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/webboard/Forum9/HTML/001214.html#")http://www.AmbrosiaS...ML/001214.html#(/url)

If you agree with my conclusion at the end of the thread, then the only thing I can suggest is to find substitutes for the three ship graphics. It's an irritating situation, I agree. Please post your own conclusions here; I'd like to hear what you think.

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