Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!gatech!mcnc!raw From: raw@mcnc.org (Russell Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: No more Cinemaware stuff for Amiga !!!???? Message-ID: <4984@alvin.mcnc.org> Date: 1 Aug 89 05:28:39 GMT References: <268@nrcvax.NRC.COM> <30140@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <333@xrtll.UUCP> Reply-To: raw@mcnc.org.UUCP (Russell Williams) Organization: Microelectronics Center of NC; RTP, NC Lines: 40 In article <333@xrtll.UUCP> mark@xrtll.UUCP (Mark Vange) writes: >> program is selling, and then they go and figure that the 10,000 kids >I can tell you that Dragon's Lair outsold our initial expectations because >it's protection lasted for over 5 months, but as soon as a cracked version >appeared, sales dropped down to nothing. While it may make you feel better >on a Friday night to have your favoriate cracked game handy, it's making my >Friday nights much leaner than they deserve to be after many months of hard >work! Well, if you could tell me where I could get a cracked version, I'd go out and buy it again. I purchased Dragon's Lair twice, and both times one of the disks was defective. I'm not a big fan of returning disks to the manufacturer, because in the case of Dragon's lair, the possibility of waiting two or three weeks to get another version that was messed up seemed a little too likely. Besides, I kind of lose my enthusiasm for a game when I have to do this. If there's a cracked version, though, I can rely on it to work properly, as opposed to MicroProse's Silent Service. I bought that three times, and after all the disks went bad, I went to a pirate and got a cracked copy that didn't have the keyword protection and WORKED!!!! I can't copy Sword of Sodan, but at least its copy protection doesn't make my drive sound like it's dying, and the game doesn't crash at random times. My original Silent Service disk now has a cracked copy on it. As a side note, MicroProse answered my original letter notifying them of the problem SIX MONTHS after I sent it. Their note politely informed me that they had realized the problem, and that if I sent them the disk back, they would send me a better copy. I replied with a letter telling them that I had found better customer support with the pirates, and have not heard from them since. I don't mind copy protection. But I do mind disks that have a high failure rate, and I do mind disks that make my disk drives beg to be put out of their mercy. I mind key words as well, but then again, I don't own a hard drive, and I see their use. By the way, has anybody found a way to copy Gunship or SimCity, two of the worst offenders with the groaning drive? My kingdom for the return of Marauder!!!!! Russell