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From: tj@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Todd R. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Emerald Mine
Keywords: bad copy protection
Message-ID: <26102@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 31 Oct 88 04:22:13 GMT
References: <8810290627.AA17577@ellesmere.csri.toronto.edu>
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Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer and Information Science
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In article <8810290627.AA17577@ellesmere.csri.toronto.edu> sam@csri.toronto.edu (Sam Weber) writes:
>I just bought a copy of Emerald Mine, and discovered that it wouldn't
>boot on my Amiga 1000 (nor on a friend's, so it isn't a hardware problem).
>So, does anyone out there know a way to persuade this blasted game
>to boot on a 1000?
>    --Sam Weber            This posting has been brought to you today
>sam@csri.toronto.edu       by the letters A, Q, and by the number 7.

	I just bought a copy of this and it does boot and run on my
1.5M 1000.  However, the protection is really annoying.  If you do not turn
the machine off and start from scratch, the program will not work.
When I tried to run it by rebooting after doing other work, it would
either give me a corrupt disk requester or else fail the copy protection
disk check after the main title is displayed.  When it fails, the drive
will grind 5 or 6 times as if it is trying to mutilate the disk.
After it fails the disk check it appears to be normal
except that you can only go up to level four and eating a diamond will
cause you to explode.

	So far I have not been successful at copying this disk.  Since
the program writes to the disk, I'm afraid that it will go bad or be
accidently destroyed.  If I figure out how to copy it, I'll let you
know.  If anyone else already knows, please tell me.  This type of
protection has got to be stopped.  Only the low price of Emerald Mine
(and the game's quality) keeps me from flaming the company.

	---Todd Johnson
	tj@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu

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	---Todd
	tj@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu