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From: wayne@utflis.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: EA upgrade policy (was Re: Sprites (Mindwalker))
Message-ID: <998@utflis.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 18:21:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: utflis.998
Posted: Fri Oct  9 18:21:53 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Oct-87 18:02:56 EDT
References: <506@esunix.UUCP>
Reply-To: wayne@flis.toronto.edu.UUCP (Wayne Young)
Organization: FLIS, University of Toronto
Lines: 29
Keywords: EA, update policy, nofast
Summary: 

In article <506@esunix.UUCP> blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes:
>
>On the subject of brain damaged programs (EA in particular) only Marble
>Madness worked with 1.2 and fast ram, of all the EA programs I own.
>Deluxe Video and Deluxe Print were fixed by decoding them with Marauder
>II, then FixHunking them. Due to the bizzare copy-protection on Archon,
>One on One, and Skyfox I have been unable to fix them.
>
>I've heard a rumor that EA has a policy of upgrading their braindamaged
>games for $7.50 and the original disk, can anyone confirm?
>
EA does, indeed, have a replacement policy, at least for Arcticfox.  
I complained to them about Arcticfox, and they offered to replace Afox 
for $US7.50 if I sent in the complete Afox package.  If your warranty 
hasn't expired and you've got proof of purchase-date, you can get the 
replacement for free.

On a related matter, I tried to use NOFAST to get my A2000 to boot these
programs, and it didn't work.  I think it might be because my extra-ram 
is at $C00000, and the author of NOFAST _did_ say that he wasn't sure if
it would work there.

Is there a new version of NOFAST out?  Has anybody with an A2000 tried
this?  (/kim ?)

wayne