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From: mitsu@well.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Things that break with the MC68010
Message-ID: <1452@well.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Jul-86 14:59:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.1452
Posted: Fri Jul 18 14:59:54 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jul-86 02:58:22 EDT
References: <966@jade.BERKELEY.EDU > <3478@sdcc3.ucsd.EDU>
Reply-To: mitsu@well.UUCP (Mitsuharu Hadeishi)
Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito CA
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Summary: EA software doesn't "go bad"


Keywords: MC68000!=MC68010, EA software doesn't "go bad sometimes"

In article <2571@burdvax.UUCP> William P Loftus writes:
>You have to remmember that EA software has been known to go in
>smokes since the coy rotection they used trashes the disk sometimes
>a friend of mine lost his versions of DeluxePaint and Artic Fox and
>they had very little use too.  I haven't heard of Braticus but if
>it isn't a EA game then it probably will run forever.  Anyways, I
>though the instruction set for the MC68010 was the same as the
>instruction set of the MC68000 so I don't understand why the games
>won't work??
	Let's get things straight, here.
	EA copy protection only fails if you try to write on the disk.
Don't write on the disk, and the tools and games will work just fine.
Professional tools such as DPaint are now available in non-copy
protected form, and come with backup disks as well.    As to DPaint "not
having much use," well, there's not much to say to that except that
it is one of the best graphics editors for any microcomputer; if you are
a computer geek with no visual sense, you might not appreciate that,
however.
			-Mitsu (mitsu@WELL.UUCP){