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From: chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: game review: Crystal Quest
Message-ID: <3562@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 3 Feb 88 00:33:37 GMT
References: <962@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <967@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <2877@cup.portal.com> <2901@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Recently, fireplace@cup.portal.com wrote:

|I purchased this fine game last week for $24.95 - a great deal.  I would like
|to clarify that this game is not technically copy protected.  I did a simple
|image (full sector) copy of the original and the copy works fine.  The desktop
|does not do an image copy when doing a full disk copy.  I think this form of
|protection was to prevent people from pirating the game via modem (who would
|want that?).  I personally like this key protection.

Just because you do can copy a disk by doing a sector copy instead of bit
copy dosen't mean that the game isn't copy protected!  The mere fact that 
you had to resort to using a copy program's sector copy mode instead of
using the Finder means that the software IS copy protected.

|By the way... Crystal Quest can be installed on a Hard Disk.  The game will
|ask you to insert the original key disk in your Floppy Drive before
|starting.  It's nice being able to put a game on a Hard Disk.

Well, it is kind of them to allow you to place your software on your hard
disk :-) Seriously, though, I bought mine because I wanted the speed of a HD
over a floopy and the convience of not having to locate and mount volumes to
run programs.  With any key disk copy protection both advantages are
annihilated.  Think again before praising any key disk schemes, especially
on HD installed copies.

Christopher Chow
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