fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (11/20/90)
Re: Disk-gronking copy-protection
I can't understand, after MicroProse released a game on normal DOS
disks like PIRATES!, which is HD installable and uses an unobtrusive manual
lookup copy protection (ONCE per saved game), why they would backtrack and
put F-19 on a drive-grinding uninstallable NDOS: disk.
I'll say the same thing I said when GUNSHIP came out (and which I
took back when PIRATES! came out): Maybe MicroProse doesn't WANT Amiga owners
to buy their software...
--Rick Wrigley
fhwri@conncoll.bitnetztsindi@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Bill Gant) (12/03/90)
Posted for Clayton J. Miner...Text to Follow ----------------------------------------------------------------- | Todd G Vaarwerk | Bitnet: ZTSINDI@UBVMS | | State University of | Internet: ZTSINDI@UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU | | New York at Buffalo | VAARWERK@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU | |---------------------------------------------------------------| | Disclaimer: Believe what you want .. I trashed all my views of| | reality ages ago d8-) | ----------------------------------------------------------------- In article <36778@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes... >Re: Disk-gronking copy-protection > I can't understand, after MicroProse released a game on normal DOS >disks like PIRATES!, which is HD installable and uses an unobtrusive manual >lookup copy protection (ONCE per saved game), why they would backtrack and >put F-19 on a drive-grinding uninstallable NDOS: disk. > I'll say the same thing I said when GUNSHIP came out (and which I >took back when PIRATES! came out): Maybe MicroProse doesn't WANT Amiga owners >to buy their software... > --Rick Wrigley > fhwri@conncoll.bitnet The problem here seems to be that MicroProse has a European conversion team that produces this junk and relies on that bozonic (adj. 1. exxessively and repetitiously stupid) protection scheme. Pirates was handled in the US (as far as I recall). Was F-19 converted by MPS? MPS set up Red Storm Rising so that it could be HD installed and all of that. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Wing Commander Skeksis - Reality Engineer | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Clayton J. Miner | Bitnet: ZTSINDI@UBVMS | | -------------------- | Internet: ZTSINDI@UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | The views of this post are not the views of this host organization. | | They ARE, however, the views of the SysOp of the Known World BBS. | | 300-1200-2400 bps, 24 hours mostly. A SkyLine BBS. | | (716)-883-3083 | -----------------------------------------------------------------------