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From: scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga pirating...
Message-ID: <883@applix.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 88 16:24:34 GMT
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In article <226@xrtll.UUCP> mark@xrtll.UUCP (Mark Vange) writes:
>
>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.

	Gaghm, yuk, phutoey.  This is so ridiculous as to be
	laughable!  You actually require me to backup, reformat,
	and then restore my hard disk, to play a game??  Get
	with the program, jack- you should win some kind of award
	for this kind of horrid logic.

>                      This, however, required a great deal of time
>and money to implement.

	A foolish waste of time and money.  My Amiga already
	has all the software you need to read the hard disk.

>                         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.

	Then don't take over the system completely.  You
	obviously haven't been reading this newsgroup lately.

>                                            When we contacted Hard
>Drive manufacturers, only Comspec gave us the support we needed to
>produce this feature for the Amiga gaming community.

	My god.  You really planned to contact _every_ hard
	drive maker and expect them to help you do this??!

>So, it's not all the fault of us "big bad developers."  There are
>many difficulties in implementing these much sought-after features.

	No there aren't.  You create the difficulties.  You can't
	expect to program the Amiga like it's a ST.

...

>Mark Vange
>Visionary Design Technologies

	Thank you for describing your CP strategy to me.  I
	now realize my dollars would be better spent on some
	other piece of game software.

-scott