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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: HD/DD drives jumpered = games/apps not working correctly
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- Date: 4 Jan 1996 01:25:50 GMT
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- Dr. Peter Kittel (peterk@combo.ganesha.com) wrote:
-
- : Good idea. And it's even *not* in the protection part of their track
- : loaders as far as I understand, they just need to follow the advice
- : of the Hardware Reference Manual to add a time-out of .5 s for the
- : DiskReady signal of the drive. That's all.
-
- It really would simplify things for everyone if they would just use the
- filesystem and make their games hard drive installable. With all those
- protection routines they put on there, the only ones that can get them to
- work are the pirates. The better choice for protect is manual or code
- protection. The best way is to ship the game on CD and make it big enough
- so that it can't be copied to a hard drive or over the modem. If AT ever
- sets up a Amiga product distribution system, they should put it in the
- guide lines that games must be hard drive installable. NDOS games only
- hurt Amiga game sales.
-
- For some reason, some of the game companies don't seem to want their CD
- games run on anything other than a CD32. I've got a CD32 and a few games
- simply won't run on the 4000. Many of them do run but their not setup to
- run with a icon, I have to write a script to get many of them to run. I
- really don't understand why they wouldn't want CD32 games to run on
- other AGA Amigas. It seems to me that they would make more money off
- selling them for all AGA Amiga w/CD drive instead of just for the CD32.
-
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- Chris Hall
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