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From: terminal@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (Bernard Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Is it "lazy" to want to boot a game from HD? Re: Mike Farren Tutorial.
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.121710.885@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au>
Date: 5 Apr 91 12:17:10 GMT
References: <1991Mar24.204206.11145@starnet.uucp> <1991Mar26.211403.8981@engin.umich.edu> <mykes.0396@sega0.SF-Bay.ORG> <1991Apr1.084502.15579@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
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In <1991Apr1.084502.15579@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:

>Um, tell you what, you come over and find a way to organize my ~1000
>floppy disks in a way that makes that game as convenient to find and
>load as six mouse clicks to open the Play: window, the individual game
>window, and start the game, and I'll start listening to you. 

~1000 * 880k... hmm guess you gotta big HD hey!

Lets remember that until BIG HD become a cheap reality floppies are going
to remain quite usefull..  I mean how many games would you keep on your HD?
What happens when you want to play one of those old games that arent on your
HD? Dont suppose you copy it across just for one play..?

I agree that those annoying protection methods of code-wheel etc are bloody
stupid.. and not exactly fail-safe, I mean I saw a photo of the code wheel 
for Falcon, so why bother?

terminal.