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From: BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shadow of the Beast Cheat
Message-ID: <6664@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Date: 11 Apr 90 12:58:21 GMT
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In article <6526@rouge.usl.edu>, wakres01@pa.usl.edu (Stelly John B) writes:
> In article <PORTUESI.90Apr5145819@tweezers.esd.sgi.com> portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) writes:
>>>>>>> On 4 Apr 90 22:02:00 GMT, chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang) said:
>>>>
>  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 !!!
> 


For a long time, the only version of DPaint that used a PAL screen was a
pirated, reverse engineered version.

> 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 guess these companies really leave the door open by making poorly
functioning versions that a very easy to fix.

Regards Alan

> 
> John B Stelly III
> wakres01@pa.usl.edu