James Thomson

@jamesthomson Aw, damn. 19 years is a great innings, but spending 10 years of it trying to come back from a hit is awful.

@Politepix True, would have been nice to know that it was happening though…

@jamesthomson Yes, though I imagine its hard for a payment processor to share financial issues w/out making them worse on the process side.

@Politepix Also true, but a “we’re shutting down in a month” warning would have given everybody time to deal with it.

@jamesthomson Yup, I hear you. I can think of reasons it may not have been possible, but man, very painful & disruptive for their customers.

@jamesthomson: I used to use Kagi for my shareware!

@waferbaby I think everyone on the Mac did!

@jamesthomson: I was jelly@kagi. Aww.

@jamesthomson

@jamesthomson well that puts a definitive end to my efforts to cash that US$59 cheque they posted me last year ... :(

@KristianWalsh Damn :( They owe us a not-insubstantial sum, which I doubt I’ll see…

@jamesthomson I hope you get something from the receiver/liquidator

@jamesthomson Wow, that name takes me back. Bought DragThing via them in '96 or '97. Sad they're gone, and how they left devs in the lurch.

@johninparis And thank you for the early purchase :)

@jamesthomson You're welcome! Well worth it; tab key probably my favorite. I always believed in supporting indies, starting from my ZX days.

@jamesthomson Wouldn't surprise me to have work archives somewhere with email exchanges with you. Probably Zip disk.

@johninparis Heh, I might have some here on my actual hard disk - tried to recover everything.

@jamesthomson I have backups literally around the world, many surely good, incl. Radio Shack cassettes. I'm a living AWS, minus reliability.