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From: brent@well.UUCP (Brent Southard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Ultima III and other gripes
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Date: Mon, 1-Dec-86 21:35:32 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  1 21:35:32 1986
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Keywords: copy protection Marauder flames

I recently bought Ultima III for the Amiga, and was very disappointed to find
that I cannot back it up.  I've tried Marauder, but I don't have any codes, and
I don't want to wait for Discovery Software to answer my pleas.  I've also
tried QuickEA (seeing that this product is at least distributed by EA), but it
also fails.  In any case the copy seems to work until I try Transactions, at
which time I'm told that "Honesty is a virtue.  I will not help you.".  C'mon,
am I really expected to use my master disk for a game with constant reading and
WRITING of/to the disk?  Has anyone found a way to back this game up yet? 
have any other purchasers of Marauder been notified by Discovery of an update
path for Marauder II?  Is it still vaporware?  So far, the only company who
has sent me any promised update information is CSI, for their Multi-Forth
system.  The ones who haven't include Electronic Arts, Discovery, and Amiga
(for Amiga Lattice C).  This is getting ridiculous.  I understand Aegis, a
company with a seemingly sparkling reputation, is also guilty of the same
promises.

"They say 'so what?'
 I say 'so this.'"  - Iggy

brent