hjalmar@cbmswe.UUCP (Peter Hjalmarsson) (05/13/91)
In article <91133.103849DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu> DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu (Doug Bischoff) writes: > > When a game boots itself off of a floppy and then siezes control over the >entire operating system (including disk accesses, etc.) then it is treading on >thin ice. Unless the people making the game plan on re-writing entirely the >basics of disk access and such, there are going to be problems: my point?... > > As you may recall, I was lamenting that I could not get Lemmings, that way >nifty funky-cool game from (guess!) Psygnosis to run on my A3000. The game >would load fine, but at the point where it should have asked for the second dis >k on my one-floppy system, it just died. The mouse would still move, but the >screen remained blank. > > After much hair-pulling, I thought to myself: okay... it's possibly lookin >g for that second disk. But I don't have another disk dri..... oh. > > Reaching around to the back of my machine, I unplugged the A-max cartridge >and after that the game ran flawlessly. > > Seeing that *something* was plugged into the disk-drive port, the game jus >assumed that it was a disk drive. This kind of copy protection has *got* to go >when it will cause the game to not run for things that would be trivial on any >system-booted game. I see this as the best argument against siezing control of >the OS. Wake up, Psygnosis. What happened to the hard-disk-installable system-friendly version that the programmers of Lemmings promised us? I havent seen it on sale in Sweden yet anyway. Peter Hjalmarsson {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmswe!hjalmar
Doug Bischoff <DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu> (05/13/91)
When a game boots itself off of a floppy and then siezes control over the
entire operating system (including disk accesses, etc.) then it is treading on
thin ice. Unless the people making the game plan on re-writing entirely the
basics of disk access and such, there are going to be problems: my point?...
As you may recall, I was lamenting that I could not get Lemmings, that way
nifty funky-cool game from (guess!) Psygnosis to run on my A3000. The game
would load fine, but at the point where it should have asked for the second dis
k on my one-floppy system, it just died. The mouse would still move, but the
screen remained blank.
After much hair-pulling, I thought to myself: okay... it's possibly lookin
g for that second disk. But I don't have another disk dri..... oh.
Reaching around to the back of my machine, I unplugged the A-max cartridge
and after that the game ran flawlessly.
Seeing that *something* was plugged into the disk-drive port, the game jus
assumed that it was a disk drive. This kind of copy protection has *got* to go
when it will cause the game to not run for things that would be trivial on any
system-booted game. I see this as the best argument against siezing control of
the OS. Wake up, Psygnosis.
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