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From: ralphm@elaine34.stanford.edu (Ralph Melton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Copy Protection and AutoDuel?
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.073951.17467@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 15 Jan 91 07:39:51 GMT
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I recently bought AutoDuel, a 1985 game that comes bundled with a System that
won't boot my SE/30.  The documentation mentions that it is copy-protected;
you can copy it to your hard drive, but when you start the game, it checks
to see whether the original disk is in a floppy drive and refuses to run
if it doesn't find the original disk.

I copied it to my hard drive, and started it up.  I chuckled an evil chuckle
when I found out that it doesn't require the original disk; I can play
perfectly well without ever using the original disk.

My question, then, is this:

Was there ever copy protection on AutoDuel that worked?

If so, why doesn't the copy protection work on my SE/30 (System 6.0.7,
MultiFinder 6.1b9, boodles of inits)?

Ralph
--
Ralph Melton	The White Rabbit	ralphm@portia.stanford.edu

"When you hear of a storybook romance, you don't think of the storybook
as being _Alice in Wonderland_ . . ."