Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Path: utzoo!censor!geac!dmntor!bill
From: bill@dmntor.UUCP (Bill Kyle)
Subject: Re: friendly to what?
Message-ID: <1991Jan7.134819.27933@dmntor.UUCP>
Keywords: protection, piracy
Reply-To: bill@dmntor.UUCP (Bill Kyle)
Organization: Digital Media Networks, Toronto, Canada
References: <9519@mirsa.inria.fr> <1mm9u1w163w@kennels.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 91 13:48:19 GMT
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Yes protection stinks. Even though I only have an enhanced 500 I alway feel
insecure about games I can't do back-up copies with.

My point is why can't S/W houses get into the habit sound off-disc protection?

The best example of this is Falcon. They use a code wheel. Not only that, but
the code-wheel is colored in suble blue to make it very hard to copy on
your average photo-copier PLUS they use complex icons instead of numbers to
dissuade attempts to copy down the combinations. This is the best form 
of non-disk protection I have seen yet. AND I get to back up my Falcon disks.

Three cheers for all the S/W houses that go through the effort to devise
effective non-disk copy protection, like Spectrum Holobyte. 

  

ps: All those who think F-18 is better than Falcon......please, get a life!