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- From: jim@bilpin.co.uk (JimG)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
- Subject: Re: Lemmings Copy Protection ARRGGHHH!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.151147.18856@bilpin.co.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 15:11:47 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.125729.11946@ifi.uio.no>
- Organization: SRL Data
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- IN ARTICLE <1992Nov19.125729.11946@ifi.uio.no>,
- erlingm@ifi.uio.no (Erling Mork) WRITES:
- > [...]
- > I bought Lemmings yesterday, and found to my dismay that their "off-
- > disk-look-up-in-the-manual" cp is extremely annoying. For one, you have
- > to look up a number in a table printed in very light almost invisible
- > blue on a certain page. Even that I wouldn't have minded too much. But
- > then came to dialog...which said "What is code 17 on the page that has this
- > icon [icon here]". WHAT?!?!? [...]
- > Would someone care to explain the reason for this incredibly stupid cp
- > scheme?
-
- One might also wonder why the PC version doesn't have this. Although the
- manual has those blue numbers in a box at the bottom of each page,
- they're not used. All you have to do is that, every dozen or so times
- the game is run it asks you to put in the master disk; you
- put it in, and that's the end of the copy protection procedure; no
- faffing about with looking up things in manuals. Perhaps this method is
- too easily bypassed on the Mac? One more confirmation of my decision to
- buy a cheap PC for playing games.
- --
- Another Fine Product from <jim@bilpin.co.uk> {JimG : Hatfield, England}
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