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From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Lack of games for the GS
Keywords: Copyprotection
Message-ID: <1113@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 11 Feb 90 21:28:08 GMT
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens
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It seems that a lot of software authors, particularly those
writing games, have run into problems selling their stuff to the
GS market. The GS, having higher resolution, etc., needs larger 
programs to take advantage of it's capabilities. No, I don't have
a GS but a friend of mine does and everytime he wants to show a new
game to me it takes longer to boot it up and wait around during disk
swaps than to play the game. Never mind that he has battery backed ram,
a hard drive, etc. The copy-protection in the games won't allow him to 
fully use these things and cause compatibility problems between os's. Until
the software authors get their heads out of their rear ends and quit 
ruining perfectly good programs with copy-protection they will lose sales.
Look at the success of Appleworks and the Timeout/Beagle Bros software. Now
imagine trying to use these if they were copy-protected. 


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*   bob church  att!oucsace!bchurch                                *
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*  If economics isn't an "exact" science why do computers crash    *
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