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From: pfaff@mercury.asd.contel.com (Ray Pfaff - Oakwood 457 934-8162)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shadow of the Beast Cheat
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Date: 10 Apr 90 21:02:27 GMT
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John Stelly III writes:
>Shadow of the Beast won't work on my 1000 because of the copy protection.
>It only boots up about 30% of the time.  What really irritates me is that
>someone told me they had a cracked copy that worked fine on their 1000 !!!

>And psygnosis complains about piracy, while it may be the only way to get
>their software to work! (I'm not advocating piracy, but it IS irritating)

I had a similar problem with Ballistix.  Is it my imagination or does 
Psygnosis go so overboard with copy protection that they make their games
run marginally on anything other than "stock" machines.


Ray Pfaff
pfaff@europa.asd.contel.com