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From: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Xenocide deprotect
Summary: What next?!?
Message-ID: <16743@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 1 Sep 89 02:05:37 GMT
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In article <10900@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>                                                  the game cannot be installed
>completely on hard disk, but peeks at the Apple Disk 3.5 (required, not
>UniDisk) periosically;

Well, I guess buying the game would be pointless.  I guess the author wouldn't
be interested in selling a deprotected version to people with a UDC + Laser
800K drive...?

For those wondering why I keep screaming about copy protection so much, the
first few programs I got for my //gs - two from Mediagenic (Activision)
and one from some other source - failed to work.  The response was usually
that they would provide an unprotected version for $20.00 extra.  I was rather
disenchanted with several software vendors after that...

Two of the (in my opinion) best games available for the //gs, Alien Mind and
Dungeon Master, do not work on my drive.  Fortunately most utilities aren't
protected.

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fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
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