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From: cs122dc@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Lack of games for the GS
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Date: 27 Feb 90 01:40:42 GMT
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bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU writes:

>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. 

I have to agree with you, to some extent not allowing people to place 
programs on hard drives is a pain, but you have to look at it from a
marketing standpoint.  If you don't protect the program, SOMEONE is going
to copy it (and not just for the sake of having a back-up either).  For
every copy of AppleWorks out there that was sold legitimately, how many
illegal copies do you think there are? (and at around $200 a crack, that's
a lot of profit loss).  Aside from that, I don't see where copy protection
truly affects a program's overall performance, except during disk activity.

As for better games and such... the more the machine has to deal with, the
slower it's going to go.  I don't own a GS, but I've seen them in action
enough to know that it's way underpowered in terms of speed.  Of course,
we all know that.  I have a lot of really great games for my //e that
are exceptionally impressive graphically and run just as well.  Games are
as good as the people who write them-- look at Prince of Persia from Broderbund
for example: standard hires, supeior animation, and relatively quick.  If 
there's a way to write good games on the GS, even with the speed factor, 
someone will find a way around it...

Sorry, I haven't developed a fancy .sig yet...oh well...

	Randy Vose
	cs122dc@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu

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