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- From: cbrown@armltd.co.uk (Chris Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT UK redundancies
- Date: 18 Jan 1996 14:06:25 -0000
- Organization: Advanced RISC Machines Limited
- Message-ID: <4dlk51$61o@valour.pem.cam.ac.uk>
- References: <wfblanDLBHAo.4Mz@netcom.com> <E7E3C401@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <E7E3C401@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk>,
- Mat Bettinson <mat@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- >
- >Well no actually. There are some occasions when people will bang on the
- >hardware. Disk protection is the obvious choice and other things in games.
-
- This is nonsense. There is no need to use on-disk copy protection,
- when manual protection, a-la Worms works just as well. One really has
- to ask why they bother anyway, since a cracked version is likely to
- appear within days of launch. There is simply no excuse for using the
- disk hardware when we have a perfectly good operating system to do it,
- and I don't think that anyone who produces software that's so fragile
- that it falls over at a moments notice like this has any claim on
- calling themselves a computer professional.
-
- >The A1200 isn't an upgrade, it's the same machine so therefore it should be
- >100% hardware compatible. What's more, there was no NEED for compatibility
- >to be broken.
-
- Nobody makes DD drives anymore. The HD drives work with the operating
- system, without modification. This being the case, there is no excuse
- for all games software not to work, and if it doesn't, it's the fault
- of the software producer, not AT.
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