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From: bombadil@diku.dk (Kristian Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Making games work on the 3000
Message-ID: <1991May13.110617.9828@odin.diku.dk>
Date: 13 May 91 11:06:17 GMT
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drichard@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (David Richards) writes:

>I bought an Amiga 3000 about three weeks ago and I love it to death.
>Even thought I knew going in that many games were not going to work I still
>miss them and I can't help but think that if I knew more about what I was
>doing I could get more of them to work.  About the only trick I know is
>rebooting under kickstart 1.3 and trying from the old OS.  This helps

  Though I haven't the knowledge to state it as a fact, I find that the
majority of problems with running games on accelerated machines are not with
the game itself (especially if you disable the cache), but rather with the
loader and copy-protection breaking if the machine is the least bit
different from a stock A500. So, a good way to make the game run is to
REMOVE the copy-protection, and put the game into a DOS-file, that is,
'crack' the game. Consider the legal and moral issues involved: isn't it
hard to blame someone for unprotecting the game if it is the only way to
make it run, and if in the process the game is actually improved in that it
becomes hd-installable? And how about the user who has to choose between a
$50 copy-protected original and a free, hd-installable pirated copy?
  I think the lesson is that ALL programmers of amiga software should start
programming for the AMIGA as a concept, not as in an A500. Or go buy an IBM
clone.

  I realise that this is a bit more technical that the intend of the
original letter, but since this relates to a recent trend in this group, I
went for it all the same.

	- Kristian