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From: kreme@nyx.UUCP (Finnegan's wake-up call)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Rastan GS
Message-ID: <2114@nyx.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 90 07:19:29 GMT
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Reply-To: kreme@nyx.UUCP (Finnegan's wake-up call)
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In article <12623071370006@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu> RAFAEL@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Rafael Yu) writes:
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>  Hey,  I just got my copy of Rastan GS today from Software Plus, and it is
>great.  If you think Task Force was good, wait until you see Rastan.  It
>incorporates great stereo sound effects, music and graphics.  It is a true
>image of the arcade game.  I'm really glad that software companies like Taito,
>still support the GS line.  I hope Taito will import more games to the GS line,
>I will one of the first one on buying them. (eg. IBM's versions of Shy Shrak,
>Rambo II, etc)

If people spread the word, get the game into stores and BUY IT!  I'm sure that
Taito will continue to be producing games for it.  Look at Arkanoid II...

>  Now, the only down side on this program is the lack of a QUIT option.  The
>manual don't metion anythink about it and the usual control-Q or OA-Q don't
>do anything.  So the only way to exit the game is by doing a control reset.

I thought there was a quit option in the Control Panel... but I could be wrong.
Try OA-CTRL-ESC and see if there is one there.

>Also, the copy protection is disturbing.  I try to put the game on my hard
>drive but no use.  Now, I don't want to start another piracy dilema here, but
>why bother on copy protection if sooner or later someone will crack it.

I ordered my copy when I heard it was being released.  I haven't gotten it yet.
It was on the boards in THREE DAYS.  The pirate version is not, as yet, fully
cracked.  The game can still not be run off the Hard drive...  Too bad.

>                                                                         Now,
>many companies argue that copy protection slow down piracy, but I have seen 
>programs, that are suppose to be copy protected, hit pirate BBS before they
>even get on the shelf.  So, the only people really hurt by copy protection are
>people like me who buy their share on the softwares market but cannot even put
>what they buy into their own hard drive.  Now, paying an extra fee for a none
>copy protected version is not right.  You first spend $30+ for a program to
>then pay $10+ extra for the same software so you can put it on a Hard Disk,
>come on don't explote the consumer.

Well, as I said, Rastan was available across the country within days.  I checked
with three stores in the Denver Area and NOT ONE knew that Rastan had beenA
released.  Not ONE had it on the order list.  I told one manager "And you
guys have the gall to wonder why so many people buy software through mail
order.  It's cheaper AND fasster."  Hrmph.  I have pirate versions of EVERY
SINGLE GAME I OWN.  And I use them to.  The Life and Death version doesn't
have the stupid beeper code in it (good thing, I lost the beeper).  Prince
of Persia is on a 3.5" disk and doesn't require disk switching, etc.  Most
of the Pirate versions are more usuable than the originals.

>  If softwares companies believe copy protection is really (REALLY) necessary,
>why not use a off disk copy protection where the program ask for a code so the
>program can be run such as in Bubble Ghost and Man Hunter.

Because it is just as annoying to have to find the damn manual to play a game
like Blockout.  If I didn;t use the pirate version (with ONE BYTE CHANGED)
I would have to look up a color code in the manual to play the game.  Now once
you know how to play Blockout there is no need to have the manual.



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