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From: pekka@burken.bula.se (Pekka Hedqvist)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: I HATE paranoid copyprotections!
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Date: 23 Dec 90 22:19:11 GMT
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Just bought my yearly game, this year it turned out to be Powermonger
from Bullfrog/EOA (the successor to Populus).  On the package it says:
'no on-disk copyprotection'.  
Nice I think, then it's possible to backup and maybe I can install it
on the harddisk.  Later when I read the instructions, it reads: 
'your PowerMonger game disk uses a non-standard Amiga format and there-
fore cannot be copied' (i.e thedisk is copyprotected). 
And yes, the disk truly is protected the diskdrive doesn't sound pleased.
That's not enought, the game also is protected whith the:
'type xxx from the manual' method too.

 

 

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