Path: utzoo!yunexus!xrtll!mark
From: mark@xrtll.UUCP (Mark Vange)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga pirating...
Summary: Hard Drive installation
Message-ID: <226@xrtll.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 88 18:51:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: xrtll.226
References: <8812062316.AA06717@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Wcom, Toronto, Ont
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n writing Don Bluth's Dragon's Lair, we were sorely aware of the
need for Hard Drive support on copy protected software.
Particularely, for a game such as this which has 6 and some odd Megs
of data.  

Our solution was to include hard drive support in the form of a
dedicated partition.  This, however, required a great deal of time
and money to implement.  In addition, because the game (as most
Amiga games) takes over the system completely, all interfacing needs
to be done at a very low level, and as such needs to be rewritten
specifically for each hard drive controller.  When we contacted Hard
Drive manufacturers, only Comspec gave us the support we needed to
produce this feature for the Amiga gaming community.

So, it's not all the fault of us "big bad developers."  There are
many difficulties in implementing these much sought-after features.
In addition,this support will often reduce the effectiveness of the
copy protection.

Mark Vange
Visionary Design Technologies




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