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From: ellis@sage.cs.reading.ac.uk (Sean Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: copy pretection
Message-ID: <221@sage.cs.reading.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 13-Nov-86 10:23:38 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 13 10:23:38 1986
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Reply-To: ellis@sage.UUCP (Sean Ellis)
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Reading Univ. UK.
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[ Insert your favourite line-eater here :-)   ]

> ...amused to find phrases like "Scum of the Earth" ...
etc

Having bought Rogue, I tried to copy it with a copier that I have acquired
( merely to give myself a back-up copy, of course... ;-)  )  and found that
one of the options gave me a copy which ran perfecly until about level three,
whence the slightest hit from anything ( even a bat ) killed me, reset my
gold to zero, and displayed on the gravestone:

		/-------------\
		:  Software   :
		:  Pirate     :
		:	      :
		: Scum of the :
		:  Universe   :
		:	      :
		: killed on	
		: level three :
		: with 0 gp's :
	--------+-------------+-----------

Or words to that effect. This is presumably so that, having made a copy,
a quick run will seem to show a perfect reproduction, and thus fool any
people giving the program away to their friends, relatives, colleagues, pets,
neighbours goldfish.....

	Thong.


[ The views above are my own (except any quotes !) and not anyone elses.. so   ]
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