robert@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu (Robert Lindsay) (06/05/90)
I hate to ruin everybody's theorum that "only commercial SW gives deecent support" but Ralph reed's shareware game Mechforce has been continually supported and upgraded on a MONTHLY basis throught the Hobbit Hole BBS It is still the best game made for the amiga and blows away the crappy Infogames release. I realize it's only a game but it does deserve recognition
sirius@cup.portal.com (Mike Sirius Stilson) (06/06/90)
> [Re: Copy protection scemes ]
I agree that they're necessary too, however I have only one problem.....
With a couple dozen HD's sitting here, I'd much prefer publishers coming up
with an easy way to install software on an hard drive.. especially if the gam
is disk-intensive. I don't pirate software. Plain and simple. But usually
one of the first things I do when I get a program protected via some track
encryption (boot blocks, or extended tracks, or errors on a track.. etc..)
is to take the copy protection out so I can at least try running it off the
hard disk..
At most it takes a "Assign DiskName DH8:Wherever" and all is well...
With reads near 400k/sec compared to 60k for floopies, I think people can
understand why.
Key disks are a partial solution, but what happens when that disk goes
bad? Send it in for $10 you get a new one? Like Dana said, when they
start charging the cost of a disk that'll be better, I can take my originals
out of their hermetically sealed chamber.
Code wheels are fine, assuming you don't mind headaches...
Word lookup? Hehehe.
Once I know how to use a program, I usually manage to lose the manual forever
(assuming I even opened it in the first place)
Mike 'Sirius' Stilson
(sorry if this has all been gone over... just got back after 8 months.)