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From: 2flntopaz@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: I HATE paranoid copyprotections!
Message-ID: <27620.2775dd70@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 24 Dec 90 16:50:24 GMT
References: <148@burken.bula.se>
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Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <148@burken.bula.se>, pekka@burken.bula.se (Pekka Hedqvist) writes:
> Just bought my yearly game, this year it turned out to be Powermonger

Good choice.

> 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). 

Its actually not copy protected, they just used a format unknown to
AmigaDos so you can't put it on a hard drive.  Why they went out of
their way to do this is beyond me.  Plus its one of those anal retentive
European "I am brain dead, therefore I recognize only one drive" type of
games.

> And yes, the disk truly is protected the diskdrive doesn't sound pleased.

There is an awful lot of grinding isn't there?

> That's not enought, the game also is protected whith the:
> 'type xxx from the manual' method too.
> 
Yes, this would have been enough, the special format is overkill.

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David Poland
2flntopaz@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu