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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Copy protection vs Mac IIci
Message-ID: <2911.25ab982d@bmc.uu.se>
Date: 10 Jan 90 19:16:44 GMT
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In article <1990Jan9.101740.6806@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, mart@csri.toronto.edu (Mart Molle) writes:
> In article <104950@ti-csl.csc.ti.com> martin@m2.csc.ti.com (Steven Martin) writes:
>>I only have one problem with the copy protection on Pirates.  When I
>>insert the key disk, my IIci crashes.  It worked fine on the II.
>>Wouldn't it be funny if the game works fine on the IIci but the copy
>>protection is the only thing that is making it crash.
>>
> I haven't tried Pirates!, but I did try to buy "Where in the World is Carmen
> San Diego" (I hope I spelled that right...) for my kids for Christmas.  It
> was completely unusable on the IIci due to the copy protection.  You couldn't
> boot from the game disk, because it was not 6.0.4 (machine bombs).  And, you
> couldn't boot the Mac and insert the master game disk and run it because of
> the copy protection.

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> BTW, there was a lot of flamage a couple of weeks ago wrt one person's bad
> experiences with SimCity.  He complained that it wouldn't work, and lots of
> others jumped in that he was wrong because it worked fine for them.  I wonder
> if that was caused by a floppy drive problem too...
> 

A friend of mine bought SimCity 1.1, and it didn't run on his MacIIci,
the machine kept asking for the masterdisk...it ran fine though on my
plus, so guess who he gave the game to;-)

But seriously, whats the difference between the colour SimCity
as advertised in the box and SimCity Supreme as seen in ads? Is it
the same program, but differently titled?
Does it *r*u*n* on the IIci????

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koenig@pelle.tdb.uu.se  -- Karl-Koenig Koenigsson, Uppsala, Sweden
(NB. not the same name as in the header!)