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- From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Attn Commodore: You are making a Big Mistake (Hardware
- Message-ID: <38039@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 16:08:49 GMT
- References: <71678@cup.portal.com> <0P5VVB4w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us>
- Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
- Organization: Flying Cat, Inc.
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- In article <0P5VVB4w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us> rock@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Rockerboy) writes:
- >TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko) writes:
- >> No, in fact the cache only helped one game, and that game was SimCity.
- >> The copy protection used self-modifying code, and the caches seemed to
- >> put a kink in that scheme.
- >
- >C= very specifically says not to do this. Kind of interesting that Sim
- >City, which some people have claimed as a well behaved OS game, violates
- >such a simple thing as the rule against self modifying code...;)
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- Copy protection is generally added by people other than those who
- programmed the game. Often, its added by programmers hired by
- the game publisher. Generally, those people seem to be those
- who claim to understand the machine at its lowest level, ie democoders.
- Remember, the idea of copy protection is to allow as few people
- as possible to actually run the program :-)
-
- Without trying hard, I can come up with 10 programs that would have
- worked fine under the OS, but got trashed by the copy protection.
- (Granted, I analyzed a number of those programs to find out
- why they had problems under 2.0; otherwise I might not know
- the extent of the problem).
-
-
- andy
-
- (How do I know they were democoders ? Easy. Democoders _always_
- sign their work :-) )
- --
- andy finkel andy@cbmvax.commodore.com
-
- "Unix is the Operating System of the future, and always will be."
-
- Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share.
- I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.
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