Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!rice!uw-beaver!milton!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!sbcs!csserv2.ic.sunysb.edu!dsherif From: dsherif@csserv2.ic.sunysb.edu (Darin D Sheriff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Copy protection (e.g. the Lemmings debate) Message-ID: <1991Mar2.023142.25632@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 2 Mar 91 02:31:42 GMT References: <213@cbmswe.UUCP> <1991Feb27.032156.19436@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 21 In article <1991Feb27.032156.19436@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >Nope, not a help. A key disk scheme still leaves the purchaser dependent >on fragile and failure prone media for the workability of his game >investment, which is the second biggest gripe (after beating the floppy >drives to death) most buyers have agaist floppy based copy protection.. > >Compare the excellent scheme in "Champions of Krynn", where the game >depends so heavily on the large, rich manual that, not only the "word in >manual" startup, but the whole enjoyment of the game, depend on the >"journal" which is part of the manual. Using this games copy protection >is _fun_. > >Kent, the man from xanth. > Some pirates will stop at nothing however. I personally know one that photocopied both booklets that came with the game just to get it for free. -- Darin Sheriff; Amiga 1000 owner. dsherif@csserv2.ic.sunysb.edu People don't pirate software. Computers pirate software. Disclaimer: It wasn't me. It was Chucky. He did it.