Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!isis!kreme
From: kreme@isis.cs.du.edu (Harvey Leech)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: SimEarth Copy Protection (was Re: SimEarth)
Summary: YES
Keywords: Off-disk
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.172617.12892@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 90 17:26:17 GMT
References: <2347@sparko.gwu.edu>
Reply-To: kreme@isis.UUCP (Harvey Leech)
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Organization: Pseudo-Dragon Protection League
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In article <2347@sparko.gwu.edu> fc156111@seas.gwu.edu (Timothy A. Waire Jr.) writes:
>does anyone know if SimEarth is copy-protected?? 

Yes it is.  It asks for some information (a lot of it incorrect, by the way)
from the last nine pages of the manual (on page for each planet).  It is a
very simple scheme, but a terribly annoying one.  Basically it is saying that
the people who buy the game are being punished.  I went ahead and typed up
the information (about half an hour or so) so I wouldn't need to have the
manual on hand all the time. Though as it turns out, I need the manual most
the time anyway...


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