Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: games & multitasking Message-ID: <1990Jun8.172126.17775@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 8 Jun 90 17:21:26 GMT References: <1696@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <4437@munnari.oz.au> Organization: SF Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 27 In article <4437@munnari.oz.au> ianr@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Ian ROWLANDS) writes: >In article <1696@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes: >> >>Bottom line.. I won't buy products that are protected, (etc....) >[stuff deleted, below and above this single line] > > Just a question for those people who don't buy copy-protected >programs - do you actually own any commercial programs? :-) > While I haven't reached Larry's point of disgust yet, I _do_ own roughly 60 pieces of commercial Amiga software, and I find myself more and more often putting attractive games back on the shelf when I see that they are made by a company whose copy protection schemes cause me intense irritation. Psygnosis comes immediately to mind -- flashy graphics, but floppy drive killers; I've bought my last game from them that doesn't say "not copy protected" on the box. Electronic Arts is right on the border now, with their nearly unreadable by 46 year old eyes keyword copy protection code sheets, printed black on dark purple in small type, and their count colors off a map copy protection scheme, unusable by the 10% of the male population that is partially color blind. Does anyone there actually ever bother to _think_? Kent, the man from xanth.