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- From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson)
- Subject: Re: Compatability and attitudes
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.154511.24503@newshost.lanl.gov>
- Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov
- Reply-To: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov
- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- References: <11787@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:45:11 GMT
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- In article 11787@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au, warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) writes:
- >
- >NOTE: Craig can only be talking about SHAREWARE/PD games off THE NET,
- > since almost all commercial floppy-only games boot automatically.
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- Warwick, I admit I am not an avid gamer, but I believe that many games were
- made to be non-hard disk installable as a means of copy protection. If the
- disk is not TOS copyable, likely it's not designed to run on a hard disk
- either (although there are exceptions). Fortunately, I believe this trend
- is going the way of the dinosaur as most of the new stuff I have seen is
- not copy protected and is installable on one's hard disk.
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- ___________________________ John "HUTCH" Hutchinson _________________________
- _________________ Fair Dinkum Technologies Member - IAAD _______________
- ________________ "No worries, mate... it's from Fair Dinkum!" _______________
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