Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!ames!haven!purdue!decwrl!shelby!polya!Feanor!jwl From: jwl@Feanor.Stanford.EDU (John Lockhart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Dungeon Master minor spoiler follows ... Summary: Bye-bye copy protection, FINALLY. Keywords: NIB 1.0, DM, Copy protection no longer Message-ID: <8663@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: 21 Apr 89 08:23:31 GMT References: <13226@louie.udel.EDU> <99485@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <5902@cognos.UUCP> Sender: USENET News System Reply-To: jwl@Feanor.Stanford.EDU (John Lockhart) Organization: Little to speak of Lines: 27 In article <5902@cognos.UUCP> halo@cognos.UUCP (Hal O'Connell) writes: >I've actually finished twice now, with two different groups. One stumbling >around and one just to see how fast it could be done. My wife is threatening >to skin me alive if I try a third run :-). DM is still the best damn >computer game I've seen, despite the copy protection. >Hal O'Connell Cognos Incorporated >UUCP: uunet!mitel!sce!cognos!halo P.O. Box 9707 Speaking of the copy protection: my copy had ceased to work on my semi-flakey drive simply because of the copy protection. Fortunately, I got a copy of NIB 1.0, and voila! the copy works beautifully. [Growl! I despise copy protection!!!] Oddly enough, though, NIB writes a custom bootblock. This displays a nifty bit of scrolling blue (I'm not in description mode tonight, you'll just have to see it yourself), and appears to be harmless. Still, though, I power up before using it and power down afterwards. Next time I feel adventurous, I'll try seeing what happens if I Install a normal bootblock onto the disk. [No, I still haven't solved it; but all I have to do is (a) remember where I left my save disk, and (b) kill the bad guy before he kills my group (again).] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- John Lockhart jwl@feanor.stanford.edu BIX: jlockhart