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From: steve@uswmrg2.UUCP (Steve Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: SimCity 1.2
Keywords: SimCity lookup protection
Message-ID: <1990Jul9.221018.19437@uswmrg2.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jul 90 22:10:18 GMT
References: <3224@bnr-rsc.UUCP> <1774@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: steve@uswmrg2.UUCP (Steve Martin)
Organization: US West Marketing Resources Group, Aurora CO.
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In article <1774@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> kenney@hsi.com (Brian Kenney) writes:
>In article <3224@bnr-rsc.UUCP> rwanner@bcarh415.bnr.ca (Rick Wanner) writes:
> 
>  >I just received my black & white version of SimCity.  I can see I 	
>  >am going to miss some sleep because of it.  The only thing I don't
>  >like about it is the silly lookup protections scheme they use to
>  >make sure you are not a pirate.  Does anyone have a patch for      	
>  >SimCity 1.2 that will disable the lookup?
>
>I also just got the game and _hate_ that lookup scheme already!
>Please send me the patch, too.  Thanks in advance...
>

I too am interested in this patch, but as I have never received information
from earlier posts I am beginning to believe that it is not available.
Does anyone know how to patch SimCity 1.2 to avoid the startup check?
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