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From: hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Run (don't walk) to your store.  Lemmings has been released.
Message-ID: <5229@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 91 20:23:10 GMT
References: <52197@cornell.UUCP> <2323@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> <1991Feb20.064217.26621@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Feb20.131134.22875@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Feb21.000742.24037@eecs.wsu.edu>
Reply-To: hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland)
Organization: Evil Young Mutants For A Better Tomorrow.
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In article <1991Feb21.000742.24037@eecs.wsu.edu> crichard@yoda.UUCP (richardson craig s    - CS500) writes:
}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...

I agree. Maybe someone who is an English major out there can do us up
a good form letter stating our protest that we can print out multiple
times and mail off to the game makers?

				--Moriland




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