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From: hal@pigiron.SGI.COM (John Hallesy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Deja Vu under 1.2 WB
Message-ID: <4807@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: Fri, 26-Jun-87 13:12:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: sgi.4807
Posted: Fri Jun 26 13:12:05 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jun-87 09:48:20 EDT
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Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc, Mountain View, CA
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Keywords: piracy, copy protection, bungled burglary

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> From john13@garfield.UUCP Sat Jun 13 17:48:50 1987
> Path: pigiron!sgi!wdl1!sun!amdcad!ames!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!esosun!seismo!mnetor!
> utzoo!utgpu!utcsri!utegc!utai!garfield!john13
> From: john13@garfield.UUCP
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
> Subject: Deja Vu under 1.2 WB
> Keywords: broken menus <-------- HOGWASH!!!
> Message-ID: <3706@garfield.UUCP>
> Date: 14 Jun 87 00:48:50 GMT
> Lines: 23

> It seems that Deja Vu, while it will run under Kickstart 1.2 and Workbench 1.1
> without problems, will act up under Workbench 1.2 (ie boot off a non-game
> Workbench). From the layout of the disk it looks like all the necessary files
> are found from the volume name, so I ruled out a mis-assigned sys:, etc. I
> tried to get it to use 1.1 & 1.2 intuition.libraries so that I could see if
> there was a difference, but I couldn't find any (however intuition.library
> may have been opened during the opening of the initial CLI, right?).


> What happens is that the menus show up as XOR'ed rectangles the height of the
> screen, menu selections leave a bar behind when you release the button, and
> it will occasionally hang after a selection. It happens both with and without
> fast memory.

> **** Does anyone know of an easy fix? **** A complicated fix?

My brother programmed the Amiga version of Deja Vu.  He boots the game all the
time using workbench 1.2 which is installed on his hard disk; you just have to 
make sure you copy the special font file that the game uses; it's mixed in with
all the other workbench stuff on your *original* game disk.  The menus are NOT 
broken; your other workbench doesn't have the font file required by the game.
Try comparing files between the game's workbench and your own and you'll see 
what I mean.

> BTW, a utility to delete files and ignore the protection would be handy, as
> would one to let you address a file with strange characters in the name via
> the CLI. This was one time the Workbench interface was mighty frustrating
> as it wouldn't let me change the protection or scratch the program by any
> means (lord knows why I couldn't save the .info file).

> John

Sounds like you're just a second rate pirate, my friend.  The protection scheme
prevents people like you from copying the game with the CLI copy command.  Glad
to see it's doing its job correctly (heh heh)!  Just a tip: it's not a good idea
to ask about such things on usenet, for fear of overflowing your mailbox with
indignant flames.
				
				John Hallesy
				...{decwrl,sun,ucbvax}!sgi!hal    
				...sgi!hal@decwrl.dec.com

P.S.  Marauder II had brain files for Deja Vu before the game was ever released!
P.P.S Marauder II itself is copy protected.