mdh@cs.warwick.ac.uk (Mark Holroyd) (03/08/89)
Thankyou all for the helpful comments about Falcon - however it would appear to me that the version you have in America is different to the version we recieved over here. My version does not ask for a passwd to get into the game, instead it appears to be able to work out whether it is a copy or not (how it does this I do not know and if anyone has any ideas please tell me) before the 2nd disk is accessed. It is a game well worth buying but I do feel that it was rather thoughtless of Spectrum-Holobyte to supply the game in such a way that those of us who have bought and enjoy it cannot make backups so as to protect our *investment*. By the way has anyone any idea of a bit copier ? Alternatively how would I go about writing one ? Anyway enuf of my inane drivel. Mark.
ockenden@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (Paul T Ockenden) (03/30/89)
In article <1498@ubu.warwick.UUCP> mdh@cs.warwick.ac.uk (Mark Holroyd) writes: > > Thankyou all for the helpful comments about Falcon - however it would >appear to me that the version you have in America is different to the version >we recieved over here. > It is a game well worth buying but I do feel that it was rather >thoughtless of Spectrum-Holobyte to supply the game in such a way that those >of us who have bought and enjoy it cannot make backups so as to protect our >*investment*. Spectrum holobyte have severely cocked up on this release - run your master through disksalv and you'll find the source of the copy protect will mysteriously appear !!!! From this it's a fairly trivial task to work out what to patch and where in order to defeat the protection. -- Paul Ockenden uucp : ....uunet!prlb2!prlhp1!ockenden Software type person ....mcvax!ukc!prlhp1!ockenden Somewhere in England. janet : ockenden%prlhp1@uk.ac.ukc "Blah blah blah......... (Pizza Killers!)" bix : paulock cix : PaulO