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From: reynolds_l@apollo.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Help w/copy protection?
Message-ID: <379b48f5.448d@apollo.uucp>
Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 09:26:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: apollo.379b48f5.448d
Posted: Thu Oct  1 09:26:00 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Oct-87 06:14:23 EDT
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass.
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Hi, folks!

          Copy protection - I have a couple of programs left which I
have been unable to unprotect (only a fool actually installs a one-time
only installation program without backing/breaking the protection) and
I find that nobody seems to have much idea about how to zap them.

   Both are games (Yes, I'm not ashamed to admit that I also use my
machine to play games!!) and the protection scheme on both makes
them unreliable in execution.

   (God know copy protection is bad enough, but when the legal owner
can't use the damn things reliably....)

    They are: Universe I & II (both from Omnitrend software, excellent
    games but the protection is obtrusive)

    and ...Mindscape's Balance Of Power (The new version with the EGA
    and other bugs fixed...)


    Anyone have any hints or pointers??

 

......Incidentally - I bought Balance of Power back in February, it never
worked reliably (well, it was V1.0!) often hanging the machine, and the screen
updates took literally minutes, so it was, in effect, unusable. I waited 
until last month when Mindscape started shipping the "fixed" version - I had to
send them my key disk and wait a month for the replacement (!)....now the
new version can't be installed (they suspect it's due to the copy protection
scheme having a bug) and again, just maybe, sometimes you can get it to run...
or maybe not.....Maybe this is a new type of game - there really isn't any
BoP at all - instead you have to use your ingenuity to figure out real
world problems......



   AAAAAAAARRRRGH!!!

                        Lee    (reynolds_l@apollo)