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From: ockenden@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (Paul T Ockenden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: F-16 Falcon
Message-ID: <840@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk>
Date: 30 Mar 89 08:40:55 GMT
References: <1498@ubu.warwick.UUCP>
Reply-To: ockenden@prlhp1.UUCP (Paul T Ockenden)
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In article <1498@ubu.warwick.UUCP> mdh@cs.warwick.ac.uk (Mark Holroyd) writes:
>
>	Thankyou all for the helpful comments about Falcon - however it would
>appear to me that the version you have in America is different to the version 
>we recieved over here. 
>	It is a game well worth buying but I do feel that it was rather
>thoughtless of Spectrum-Holobyte to supply the game in such a way that those
>of us who have bought and enjoy it cannot make backups so as to protect our
>*investment*.

Spectrum holobyte have severely cocked up on this release - run your master
through disksalv and you'll find the source of the copy protect will mysteriously appear !!!!

From this it's a fairly trivial task to work out what to patch and where in order to defeat the protection.


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