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From: farren@well.UUCP (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Maxidesk, Deluxe Paint
Message-ID: <477@well.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-Jan-86 18:33:30 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 12 18:33:30 1986
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In article <1048@utcs.uucp>, wagner@utcs.uucp (Michael Wagner) writes:
> 
> I have DeluxePaint, and I've noticed a few things that seem strange.
> Together, they smack of copy protection, but I'm not sure.
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> I guess the reason this all bothers me is (a) nowhere did it say that I was
> buying a copy-protected program (I might not have bought it had I known), and
> (b) the disk is starting to scream and whistle and play tunes when accessed.
> It's the only one of 15 disks I have that is so musical.  In all my years,
> I have never really gotten complacent about the sounds of disks crashing,
> and this one sure sounds like it is on it's way.

   Electronic Arts has a reputation in the micro world as being one of the
companies most dedicated to copy protection.  Some friends of mine own a
Commodore 64, and had no disk drive problems until they bought an EA product.
After using the EA program, and listening to the grinding and crunching noise
the disk drive made, they found that they needed their drive re-aligned!

   One would hope that EA will "see the light" eventually.  They generally do
a good job, but their die-hard attitude on copy-protection is a BIG loser.


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