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From: crichard@eecs.wsu.edu (richardson craig s    - CS500)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Run (don't walk) to your store.  Lemmings has been released.
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.000742.24037@eecs.wsu.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 91 00:07:42 GMT
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Reply-To: crichard@yoda.UUCP (richardson craig s    - CS500)
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In article <1991Feb20.131134.22875@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> fmcphers@wookumz.ai.mit.edu (frank mcpherson) writes:
>
>Being forced to load a game from a floppy is also incredibly annoying to me.
>I've got an A3000 with a bit of HD space, and I'd very much like to use it for
>what *I* like to use my computer for, which includes games.  I don't have any
>Psygnosis games, but unfortunately, I do own powermonger.  I am seriosly
>considering writing letters to the distributors of several games, asking
>them to re-think their policies concerning copy protection.  

I would like to add one more "me too" to the pile of HD-supporting posts...

I have had a HD for my 500 (don't look at me that way, it's not nice) for a
couple of years, and prefer that it not sit around gathering dust while I
use a game that the programmer or distributor chose to make non-HD-installable.
Unlike most people, I don't mind manual-based copy protection at all (unless
it's on non-xeroxable paper.  Feh.).  I can live with key disks.  What I can
not live with, and refuse to from now on, is software that will not recognize
the difference between my system and the "average" system that they develop
for.  Their policy is, IMHO, against the Amiga philosophy (there he goes, 
getting all Zen on us again...).

There are quite a number of us out here who feel strongly on this issue.  If
we could get together, maybe we could make some of the companies understand
that we exist...

--Craig (the one who rambles on and on and on and on and on and on and on...)

-- 
One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.
-Heinrich Heine