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From: ekblaw@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Wizardry1 back-ups
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Date: Fri, 10-Jan-86 16:33:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 10 16:33:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!ekblaw    Jan 10 15:33:00 1986


Frankly, I have been playing Wizardry for three years now, and the only thing
that I find wrong with using the Master is that my label was coming off and
gumming up the disk drive.

For God's sake, why would you buy the thing only to store it away in plastic
like a museum piece!  Sheesh, I think the "copying craze" has gone overboard.
I perrsonally know of a perrson who has 16 (yes, I counted them) copies of the
same disk, of which maybe only 2 or 3 are ever used.  To my mind, excess copies
only waste money, disks, and storage space.

The reason for not being able to copy the master is obvious -- so that a person
must buy the master in order to play the game.  It is an ingenious method to
stop piracy, as I know of no method to completely copy the master (some friends
of mine have tried, to no avail).  Frankly, my advise is not to bother.  If
you want to keep a beautiful looking copy of the master to stare at from within
plastic, take off the stickers/labels from your master and place them on the
appropriate places of a blank diskette and place THAT in plastic.  If you do
this carefully enough, you won't damage the stickers, and it will look just 
like the Wizardry master.

Robert A. Ekblaw