crunch@well.UUCP (John Draper) (01/13/86)
< Munch Munch > Michael Wagner from University of Toronto writes in regards to DPaint: >At this point, I'm postulating that the program has some copy protection >scheme whereby the original (presumably subtly damaged) disk must be online >somewhere during the initial boot-up. After that, you can (seemingly) remove >the original and run on the copy. When I went to Palo Alto after visiting Amiga, I picked up a copy of Dpaint (for one of my clients). A young person approached me and asked me if he could "borrow" the diskette, and promised to keep it "Write protected". Said he wanted to remove the protection. Should I let him borrow it?? From all the network scanning, Michael isn't the only person who is a victum of EA's paranoia. Oh yes!! By the way, the survay I took about my next tutorial seems to weigh towards IFF. I Was able to get Steve Bennets "scales.c" to work on Manx C. I wasn't yet able to get the second demo working. I get into the interrupt routine, but, for some reason, when I "ReplyMsg" the system goes "Out to lunch with the GURU". If anyone wants to have a look at the code, I will gladly mail it to them. One of my clients is having me do some IFF stuff, and because RJ has just posted code that "Writes IFF", maybe I should post code to read in a DPaint picture? Well!! Back to reading all this nice net.micro.amiga stuff, and throwing the Atari Vs Amiga stuff in the ol "bit bucket", and slicing up "mand.c" into little text files destined for the Amiga. I use Macintosh and Macterm for scanning the net. It has large capture buffer. Great stuff RJ and French!!! Your stuff is a tough act to follow, but I will sure try!!! I have gotten some feedback that one of my postings wouldn't compile. I'm not sure which one, At one of the Amiga meetings (Belmont, I believe) one member told me to get on the net and mention that the Lattice C compiler does NOT work with the -l (dash el) option. oooops!! sorry about that folks. I used Manx, to hack it out, then (Fred Fish) Lattice'ised it. So being removed from the strangeness of Lattice, I didn't notice it. It appears that Lattice uses the "-l" option for "longword" alignment, this tends to munge up the structures in a strange way that can only be explained by a C guru. Now!! When is someone going to come up with a nice mouse-based editor with a clean cut-copy-paste user interface. (All the better to snip out those long Intuitext, Gadgets, Menus, and MenuItem structure declarations). How hard would it be to hack up EMACS into a nice "moused based" editor with scrollbar gadgets?? Now that would be a nice "Weekend" project for a smart C guru to cook up. John Draper Programmers Network "The place where we all live and learn" WELL: crunch BIX: crunch DELPHI: CRUNCH UUCP: ihnp4!ptsfa!well!crunch
tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) (01/15/86)
In article <482@well.UUCP> crunch@well.UUCP (John Draper) writes: > > When I went to Palo Alto after visiting Amiga, I picked up a copy >of Dpaint (for one of my clients). A young person approached me and >asked me if he could "borrow" the diskette, and promised to keep it >"Write protected". Said he wanted to remove the protection. Should >I let him borrow it?? > When I have a copy protected program, I don't mind letting people borrow it, because it's copy protected, so they can't rip off the manufacturer. When I have an non copy protected program, I won't let it out of my site, because they might rip of the manufacturer. It would be interesting to see what would happen if a lot of people took this attitude. > WELL: crunch > BIX: crunch > DELPHI: CRUNCH > UUCP: ihnp4!ptsfa!well!crunch I suppose you will never be on compuserve! -- Tim Smith sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim