mechrw@tnessd.sbc.com (Robert Wallace (214+464-6552)) (05/01/91)
In article <8948@crash.cts.com> seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) writes: >In-Reply-To: message from menzies@CAM.ORG > >But Jesus Christ, I talked with an EMPLOYEE of the company that makes the >bleedin' program, and it IS COPY PROTECTED. > >What more do you want? A transcript of our conversation??? > >While I'll admit that their tech support really stinks...and it could have >been the janitor who answered the phone, this is highly unlikely. > >If you've been able to move it from machine to machine, then this only >proves that is a less than effective method on certain machines. But try >and move it from an A3000 to an A2500, and you're just asking for grief! > >Sean > I'm sitting here wondering how good the copy protection could be when you install it from the write-protected distribution diskette... I know I installed it on my A1000 before I bought my A2500. I then installed it on the A2500. No problems. Notice that I didn't try to move it from the A1000 after installation, but did a new installation. No way that I can see to protect against that. (note to detail sticklers: I have long since removed it from my A1000) I did notice that the 1.1 Release no longer has my name branded into the opening screen like it did in 1.0. (or was that 0.9 ?) +-------------------------------------------------+ | Robert Wallace | What shall I do or write | | (contracted to) | Against the fall of night? | | Southwestern Bell | A. E. Housman | +-------------------------------------------------+
kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland) (05/02/91)
Imagine this, this is the picture, picture worth a thousand words. Anybody have a NEWZAP? Also, does anybody know where I can get a IFF to ANSI converter? So I can write my pictures in a thousand words? -------------------------------------- JOHN JESUS..................
sulee@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Simon Lee) (05/08/91)
In article <314@texbell.sbc.com> mechrw@tnessd.sbc.com (Robert Wallace (214+464-6552)) writes: >In article <8948@crash.cts.com> seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) writes: >>In-Reply-To: message from menzies@CAM.ORG >>bleedin' program, and it IS COPY PROTECTED. > >the A1000 after installation, but did a new installation. No way that >I can see to protect against that. > >I did notice that the 1.1 Release no longer has my name branded into the >opening screen like it did in 1.0. (or was that 0.9 ?) > From what I remember from a previous thread on this subject, the title screen WAS the proctection. If this title screen, with the owner's name supposedly saved on it, wasn't somewhere to be found, the system would hang, crash, die... As far as the program saving the system state and using it as the protection, well it's 1 to many against it. I'm not saying it didn't happen to you Sean, but maybe the program you have just was a little flaky on the A3000 system for A2500. Check your software version, system config, etc. You're right, the program is protected, but maybe in a different way. But what do I know, I only know what I hear... -Simon -- * Simon Lee * Love SGI/VGX Systems. * * sulee@ucsd.edu * Amigas are for fun! * * simon@ivem1.ucsd.edu * Macs and IBM's are for ...? * *************************************************************************