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From: gary@mit-eddie.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Copy protection
Message-ID: <5595@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 24-Apr-87 12:30:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 24 12:30:17 1987
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Reply-To: gary@eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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The most obnoxious copy protection I've seen so far on the Amiga is
for Balance of Power (which is quite a game, by the way).  First, it makes
you type something from the manual each time you play, which is enough in
itself.  But then, the disk cannot be copied (and the program constantly
accesses it).  And finally, you cannot run the game with the disk write-
protected because the game writes on it periodically!!!

Not to mention that it does not work with 1.2 so that the game cannot
be put into my extra meg of ram...

	Arggg...