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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Copy Protection Schemes
Message-ID: <32812@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 1 Jul 89 03:40:54 GMT
References: <346@mountn.dec.com> <441@tahoma.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <441@tahoma.UUCP> prl3546@tahoma.UUCP (Philip R. Lindberg) writes:
[...]
>Yesterday I purchased a copy of Risk (Electronic Arts).  It said it was for
>//e,//c, & //gs, so I tried it on my //gs.  It included one 5.25 disk which
>when I tried to boot it came back with an I/O error.  I then tried it in a
>//e, which booted fine.  It came up in ProD[OS] 1.4 which leads me to believe
>it has some fancy copy protected modified ProD[OS].

What?

Why does ProDOS 8 1.4 imply weird copy protection?  At one time, P8 1.4 was
the current version.  We're up to 1.8 on System Disk 5.0 now.

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