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From: jimmy@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Jimmy Chan)
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Subject: Re: Run (don't walk) to your store.  Lemmings has been released.
Keywords: copy protection
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Date: 19 Feb 91 21:27:49 GMT
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In article <2323@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk` rwkay@cs.hw.ac.uk (R.W.Kay) writes:
`Hello,
`
`As you can all see from my .sig, I'm one of the programmers of Lemmings
`(albeit on a PC,
`but this is for a sin I commited long ago, my heart lies in the Amiga
`community). I can
`simply state that Lemmings would be HD installable, if it wasn't for the
`fact that it would
`be too easy too copy if it was AMIGADOS'd in any way. 
`
`I've now got my flame proof clothing on, this is the Psygnosis party
`line, and we at
`DMA Design have to toe it like it or not. Flame me if you want.

Not a flame but more of a note to express disappointment.  I still rather
have games that are harddisk installable using a word look up in the manual
protection than having a key disk to protect it.  Can't say I really blame
programmers for their choices of protection as that is what they feel is
the best for their financial security but then I have to judge with my
finances then I am sorry to say I don't have the money to spend on
games that resort to disk protection.  I guess I will mostly stick with
SSI and others that do support harddrives with only manual lookup for 
copy protection.