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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Maxidesk, Deluxe Paint
Message-ID: <249@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Jan-86 21:55:00 EST
Article-I.D.: ism780c.249
Posted: Tue Jan 14 21:55:00 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jan-86 01:36:19 EST
References: <831@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> <185@uscvax.UUCP> <1048@utcs.uucp> <477@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica, CA
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In article <477@well.UUCP> farren@well.UUCP (Mike Farren) writes:

>   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.
>

EA is considering dropping copy protection.  They left a note on the Amiga
Forum on compuserve asking how much more poeple would be willing to pay
for unprotected versions of programs.  Most of the people responding said
thay would be willing to pay $10 to $30 more for unprotected programs.

If you have a dis-assembler, EA copy protection can be quite amusing to
look at ( at least if they do it on the Amiga like they do on the Mac ).
I would have never on my own thought of calling a routine by setting the
divide by zero vector to point to the routine, and then entering a weird
loop that does a divide by zero after a few hundred iterations!  Yow, are
we having fun yet?
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Tim Smith       sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim