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jortis
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  1. Yes, is a word in use.

    Brutalità is brutality in english.

  2. Very nice font.

    In italian "Brutalita" (but with an accent on the last a: "Brutalità") it means brutality.

  3. I too remember those years very well (from '83 onwards, when I managed to get a Sinclair ZX Spectrum as a gift). Magazines were very common at newsstands, but even in regular specialized stores, most of the games were pirated. I still have the instruction manual in Italian (completely counterfeit) for the game ELITE on the ZX Spectrum. The same happened when I bought a Commodore 128 three years later, and again a couple of years after that when I got an Amiga 500. You only had to go to the shop where you bought the computer to purchase games or other software. I still remember Deluxe Paint and a C compiler—if I’m not mistaken, it was Lattice C.

    And shall we talk about the common practice of pirating DOS or Windows? Starting from Windows 95 onwards... Truly a different world. The illegality in that field was scandalous for entire decades... (and even now, in many professional offices, it's still common practice to use cracked copies of Adobe Acrobat...).

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