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From: tj@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Tom Johnson)
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Subject: Re: Addition to the game porting wish list
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Date: 8 Jun 90 17:53:56 GMT
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In article <1990Jun8.150952.12328@cs.umu.se> christer@cs.umu.se (Christer Ericson) writes:
>
>Undefeatable, huh? Try this for a workable (at least I hope so - I did this
>for a friend, and he hasn't reported any problems), but somewhat "dirty" krack:
>
        (patch for pirates deleted)
>
>The first patch makes the game to always ask for Treasure Fleet, Caracas. And
>the second patch fools the program into receiving the correct answer regardless
>of what you enter.
>
>| Christer Ericson            Internet: christer@cs.umu.se [130.239.1.101] |

This brings up a question---what are the ethics of posting patches
that remove the copy protection of a game?  I know that I am never able
to find the manual or hint card or whatever when I want to play a 
game.  So the first thing I do with a new game is try to patch it so
it won't ask me any of those annoying questions.  PipeDream is the
one I have been using the most lately, and I just can't ever find the
thing with all the little pipes drawn on it, so I patched it so that
the program doesn't care if you answer wrong.

I guess what I am asking is "Is it OK to post these patches on the net?"

   Tom
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