Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!kennels!sbeagle From: sbeagle@kennels.actrix.gen.nz (Sleeping Beagle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Dongles to defeat piracy Message-ID: Date: 28 Dec 90 11:21:23 GMT References: <5160108@hplsla.HP.COM> Organization: Orb Systems Unlimited, NZ Lines: 32 tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns) writes: > sbeagle@kennels.actrix.gen.nz (Sleeping Beagle) writes: > >But would you be prepared to play a game which came with a basic voice > >input device so you could shout out "Fire Missile" when chasing a Mig? > I can see it now! "This game comes complete with its own custom > joy stick for responsiveness like you've never seen before!" Talk > about turning lemons to lemonade. I fairly quickly paid the extra > $10 to get the un-dongled Superplan, because though XCad claimed to > have a non-dongled version, I could never find out about it, and > like another poster, I couldn't stand having to swap dongles. > Swapping dongle and joystick is bad enough; at least XCad uses > enough of my paltry 512k chip ram that I'm not tempted to play > games while XCadding. :-( Dongles are really best suited to single application machines. THen there's no worry about switching dongles and so on - and it seems as if many PC clones are single application machines.... Of course, us people with Amigas are so brilliant that we use lots of different applications and the like.... :-) P.S. THe ultimate in pirate protection has now been revealed to me. I received a copy of Indy 500 for my Amiga (I love the PC version!) for Christmas - and it's impossible to pirate. Basically, the shop I got it from forgot to put the disk in the box.. :-( -- ** Official Signature for Sleeping Beagle (aka Thomas Farmer)! ** sbeagle@kennels.actrix.gen.nz || Disclaimers are for sick societies ** Thomas.Farmer@bbs.actrix.gen.nz || with too many lawyers.