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From: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hygiene for Disk Drives (or Dos Floss ?)
Message-ID: <15822@sun.uucp>
Date: Sun, 29-Mar-87 23:16:18 EST
Article-I.D.: sun.15822
Posted: Sun Mar 29 23:16:18 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 31-Mar-87 06:07:19 EST
References: <3489@cbosgd.ATT.COM>
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Summary: It wasn't AmigaDOS it was the Copy Protection

In article <3489@cbosgd.ATT.COM>, gwe@cbosgd.ATT.COM (George Erhart) writes:

[ First lots of stuff about how reliable 5-1/4" disks are ...]

< Last night, I was impressing my friends (and myself) with the realistic
< sound effects on Microprose's Silent Service. Then, I gave them a quick
< demo of DPaint II. After the oohs and ahhs, we left the box on while we got
< dinner.
< 
< A couple hours later, I returned and flipped on the monitor. Everything 
< was OK. As I wanted to play Silent Service again, I put in the disk and 
< did a warm boot. After a while, the Silent Service intro picture came up; 
< but mangled, and in the wrong colors. The Amiga then froze, keyboard 
< locked, and drive "In Use" light blazing. I could hear the drive spinning.

    ... The disk is definitely gone here but wait there is more ...

< My disk is screwed. One of these neat new 3.5" wonders, with a hard cover and 
< spring-loaded metal protector. Guaranteed to protect your valuable data from
< the harshest environments.
< 
< Except that nothing can protect you from a hungry DOS.
< 

Good guess, but probably wrong. I have gone through *three* disks of
silent service, two spontaneously died and the third would not boot
one day. The word is that the copy protection is so horrendous that 
getting this thing to play more than ten times is practically impossible. 

I have since had my money refunded. I have no use for programs that
can't survive their own copy protection. 

-- 
--Chuck McManis
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