Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!att!linac!unixhub!ditka!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Copy protection {Psygnosis: PLEASE READ} (Re: Lemmings) Message-ID: <1991Mar31.115656.16840@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 31 Mar 91 11:56:56 GMT References: <56219@sequent.UUCP> <2079@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> Sender: news@ditka.chicago.com (Pulitzer at ditka) Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 39 kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes: > cseaman@sequent.UUCP (Chris "The Bartman" Seaman) writes: >> sschaem@starnet.uucp (Stephan Schaem) writes: >>> If you know the latest Psynosis copy protection you will know that >>> it doesnt use any 'tricks', simply take advantage of the curent >>> standart of floppy drive. >> It doesn't matter HOW they implement their disk-based protection that >> is at issue. It is the mere fact that they do it at all. > Actually, HOW they implement is also a problem, as I haven't been able > to run ANY commercial Psygnosis games on either my A1000 or the > A2500/20 at work. They gronk the drive for a second & that's it - > leaving the disk drive light on until I reboot. Now maybe the drives a > a tad bit off, but Psygnosis games are the only software which has > this problem. > I have been able to run TKGS demo, but it is the only thing from > Psygnosis that has booted up and run - at all. I have trouble > believing I am the only one with this problem. My luck hasn't been quite this bad, but I let myself be seduced one time too many, and my copy of The Killing Game Show was dead on arrival; it would not boot on either my A1000 or my A2000. You are not alone. I'm much too mad to cope with trying to get a working copy, since I'm quite convinced no copy will work. In the meantime, the place I bought it, Go Amigo, was bought out and no longer, I'm told, maintain a store front. Lots of luck trying to get my money back by mail! Psygnosis - just say NO! Kent, the man from xanth. -- Lost Turrican I in four hours of play time, too. Grrr. Nuke Copy Protection! Up the Jolly Roger!