Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!purdue!ccncsu!!miranda!jafo From: jafo@miranda.UUCP (Sean Reifschneider) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Awesome! No I am Pi**ed! Message-ID: Date: 8 Dec 90 21:43:31 GMT References: <3920@corpane.UUCP> <4647@disk.UUCP> Lines: 34 >In article <4647@disk.UUCP> specter@disk.UUCP (Byron Max Guernsey) writes: >I agree totally with John Sparks on the fact that Copy Protection does promote >piracy. It sometimes can cause alignment problems with your drive. I can see >where some games have no need to be hard drive installed, but it is a great >advantage! > >I am all for password protection and code wheel types: most games of this type >run! (wow how startling!!) and they are more HD installable. And the fact is >that people can copy most protections with hardware copies (IE image copiers) >just as easy as they can copy password protections. "BROKEN" copies don't even >have to come into the picture with the current reproduction tools. > >Come on, it is ridiculous to spoil a good program with copy protection that >harms the drive in any way or will not boot! I fully agree. I paid $50 for Falcon about a year ago. I can't get it to boot correctly anymore. I've decided not to buy any more Spectrum Holobyte games in the future. It's too bad because I'd like to try out Vette, also. I'm planing on calling them and seeing what they offer to remedy this situation. I hacked my copy of F-18 Interceptor to work on my hard disc, and love it! I just got a copy of Test Drive, and find the copy protection to be acceptable. I have it installed on my hard drive. If you try to run the program without the origional disc in the drive, it crashes. If you run it with the origional disc in the drive, it access the disc for a few seconds, then you can play from hard/ram disc. Works great! Sean -- From the desk of Sean Reifschneider. Isn't Amiga UUCP great? Thanks Matt. uunet.uu.net!ccncsu.colostate.edu!ncuug!miranda!seanr