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- From: cmhaar@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Chris Haar)
- Subject: Re: Spectre
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:35:35 GMT
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- In article <9212211236.aa15752@Paris.ics.uci.edu>,
- kanderso@rome.ICS.UCI.EDU (Kenneth Anderson) wrote:
- >
- > In comp.sys.mac.games you write:
- >
- > >All right Spectre Fiends,
- > >I would like to play my Spectre game over the network with a friend, but the
- > > darn thing's copy protection won't let two Spectres with the same serial
- > > numbers be on the network at once.
- >
- > >Does anybody know how to short-circuit this, or patch the critter?
- >
- > Yes, your friend needs to buy his/her own copy. (Gasp!)
- >
- > Ken
-
- What about me? I have one copy of Spectre and two computers, but I'm
- screwed because of this serial number thing. (Very witty protection,
- though. I'll give the authors that much.)
-
- Is there a patch? And don't tell me to buy another copy. I don't think I
- should have to. (If you want my philosophy on personal ownership of
- software, let me know. This isn't the forum.)
-
- cmh
-