Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncr-sd!crash!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: "Look up a word in the manual" copy protection Message-ID: <874@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: Fri, 3-Jul-87 13:28:11 EDT Article-I.D.: gryphon.874 Posted: Fri Jul 3 13:28:11 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 17:20:31 EDT References: <1296@crash.CTS.COM> <6845@g.ms.uky.edu> <168@zehntel.UUCP> <540@applix.UUCP> Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, Ca. Lines: 14 Summary: Chris Crawford In article <540@applix.UUCP>, scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden) writes: > Of course, the all time award for most-annoying-copy-protection must > go to "Balance of Power". Not only did Chris Crawford decide to use > the look-up-the-word strategy, but he ALSO copy-protected the disk. > And, believe it or not, the game actually needs to WRITE TO THE (master) > DISK during play! > > -scott Yeah, but he only uses 2% of the CPU bandwidth to do this... -- Richard Sexton INTERNET: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM UUCP: {akgua, hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, ihnp4, nosc}!crash!gryphon!richard