Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!midway!gargoyle!igloo!miroc!caw From: caw@miroc.Chi.IL.US (Christopher A. Wichura) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Awesome! No I am Pi**ed! Message-ID: Date: 11 Dec 90 04:21:09 GMT References: <3920@corpane.UUCP> <4647@disk.UUCP> Lines: 28 In article jafo@miranda.UUCP (Sean Reifschneider) writes: >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! This is acceptable? I'd hardly call a copy protection that deliberately crashes your machine when it fails acceptable. SimCity used to do this before they went to the look-it-up-in-the-manual type of protection and I hated it. There is no excuse for crashing the user's machine on purpose. The software ought to (optionally) print a blurb and then simply exit, or do what some of the games do and run with a limited subset of all features (such as Red Storm Rising letting you play a training mission). -=> CAW /////////////////////////////////////|\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Christopher A. Wichura |Real programmers don't play tennis, or caw@miroc.chi.il.us (my amiga) |any other sport that requires you to u12401@uicvm.uic.edu (school account)|change clothes. Mountain climbing is |OK, and real programmers wear their Please! Do not send mail to my school|climbing boots to work in case a account unless mail to miroc bounces.|mountain should suddenly spring up in I often do not check uicvm.uic.edu |the middle of the machine room. for periods in excess of a week. | --Unix Fortune \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\|//////////////////////////////////////