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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: BOP questions
Summary: You can swap disks after booting
Message-ID: <1989Nov20.170914.11385@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 20 Nov 89 17:09:14 GMT
References: <11830064@hpldola.HP.COM>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
Reply-To: bill@biomel.UUCP
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <11830064@hpldola.HP.COM> jg@hpldola.HP.COM (Joe Gilray) writes:
>
>I recently purchased a used version of the original version of
>BALANCE OF POWER (Thanks, peter!).  I'm very impressed with the
>game but a have a few questions which are not dealt with in the
>manual:
>
>1) The game appears to be copy protected, at least none of the
>   copys I made ran, they all bombed.  It runs fine from the
>   original disk.  Has anyone made a backup or do I have to run
>   from the original?

I haven't run it for a while, but my experience was that it only checked
the original disk when first booted.  After that I could swap in a
duplicate disk and it ran fine.  This solves your questions about saving
the game, etc.


-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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