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From: tenney@well.UUCP (Glenn S. Tenney)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Copy protect methods & paranoia
Message-ID: <1571@well.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Aug-86 03:02:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.1571
Posted: Mon Aug  4 03:02:54 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 4-Aug-86 18:46:39 EDT
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Reply-To: tenney@well.UUCP (Glenn S. Tenney)
Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito CA
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In article <598@mips.UUCP> rick@mips.UUCP (Rick Frazier) writes:
>PAGING ELECTRONIC ARTS.....PAGING ELECTRONIC ARTS....PAGING.....HEY EA 
>are you out there?........come on, settle this little discussion once and
>for all........Do you really write to disks when they are "protected?"
Having spoken to the person at EA that would know, and the fact that
this whole topic came up a few months ago:

    E A    D O E S    N O T    W R I T E 
    A S    P A R T    O F    C O P Y    P R O T E C T I O N

>... Just for
>grins sometime, start up a game from the external drive, then remove
>it at some point.  It'll pop up a requestor that indicates you should
>re-insert the game disk. (At least the Marble Madness disk I have does this)
>The only way out is to reboot the system. The game disk takes over the
>existing workbench and transfers control exclusively to itself, keeping
>you & me from doing anything else (and, of course the bad pirates from
>robbing them :-)  ).  Tricky, huh?  
This requestor coming up is a bug in AmigaDOS 1.1.  It seems that under
some circumstances, if you have opened a file and eject the disk,
the DOS itself says "give it back".  As to taking over the whole machine,
you're right!  Many games simply need to.



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