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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:23:10 -0500
- From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Floppy size in 1200?
- In-Reply-To: <1992Nov20.042231.20985@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.amiga.hardware: 20-Nov-92 Re: Floppy
- size in 1200? by Don Burnett@emunix.emich
- > Yes, disks do cost less, but also let's talk about how difficult it would
- > be to pirate a PCMCIA card versus a disk... I think the cost justify's it.
-
- Probably wouldn't be that hard actaully, esp on machines with an MMU.
- The ROM card is just going to place the memory someplace in address
- space and jump to a fixed location (or that would seem like the solution
- most game companies would take). So a pirate would just have to copy
- the ROM images, and with an MMU change the addressing so that the game
- thinks that it is at the right location.
-
- As long as there are floppy drives in the machines it won't be that hard
- to pirate things. Just look at what people do with nitendos when they
- get the drive option.
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- alex
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