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From: ajy2208%ritcv@cs.rit.edu
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Subject: Re: BLOOD MONEY JUST WON'T LOAD...
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Date: 3 Dec 89 18:58:31 GMT
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In article <2659@gos.ukc.ac.uk> anw1@ukc.ac.uk (A.N.Walkeden) writes:
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>Yeah I had this problem with my copy too, in fact I had it twice.
[...]
>Adrian

I also could not boot Blood Money on my 1040ST (with TOS 1.4).  I am
absolutely fed up with the copy protection on some games, most
notably Psygnosis/Psyclapse.  When I try to boot the game up, I get
a black screen, and eventually the disk stops.  

I should have been skeptical when I asked for a demo at the dealer I
bought the game at and HE couldn't get it to run on the store's 
machine!!!!

To date I know of no one who has been able to get it to run on their
ST..  I've only seen the ST Demo (which does work with TOS 1.4), and
the Amiga version (which is FANTASTIC).  

Well, I returned the game and should have new disks for it later
today.  If they don't work either, well I'll just have to spend 
the $30 on DMII instead.  (not that I wasn't planning on buying
it anyway..  :-)

Oh yea, the dealer I bought the game from told me that there was a
bug in the protection in one of Psygnosis games. This bug would cause
the drive to attempt to seek all the way up to track 700 (!!!!!!!).
Apparently many drives were ruined and Psygnosis had to replace them.

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