Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: F-19 Stealth Fighter DF0: Bombing Mission Message-ID: <36778@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 20 Nov 90 00:20:33 GMT Sender: mmdf@ee.udel.edu Lines: 10 Re: Disk-gronking copy-protection I can't understand, after MicroProse released a game on normal DOS disks like PIRATES!, which is HD installable and uses an unobtrusive manual lookup copy protection (ONCE per saved game), why they would backtrack and put F-19 on a drive-grinding uninstallable NDOS: disk. I'll say the same thing I said when GUNSHIP came out (and which I took back when PIRATES! came out): Maybe MicroProse doesn't WANT Amiga owners to buy their software... --Rick Wrigley fhwri@conncoll.bitnet