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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: games & multitasking
Message-ID: <1709@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 7 Jun 90 23:17:43 GMT
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In <21407@snow-white.udel.EDU>, kosma%human-torch@stc.lockheed.com (Monty Kosma) writes:
>   Bottom line..  I won't buy products that are protected, but if I had to make a
>   choice between a dongle and any other form of protection, including disk copy
>   protection, I would NOT choose the dongle.
>
>   -larry
>
>I agree 100%...but with this question for you, Larry: what's your opinion
>on the "word in the manual" or codewheel types of protection?  Do you
>buy those kind of products?

I have purchased one product that required me to look something up in the
manual (Silent Service). I enjoyed the game, and would still, but I gave it
away shortly after I tried to play it one evening, and couldn't find the
manual (my filing system can best be described as 'sedimentary').

-larry

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