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Subject: Re: Copy Protection
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Amiga Standalone LightWave 3.5 uses a parallel port dongle. It has
pass-thru holes on it but those holes don't pass thru nuttin. No way
to stack another dongle on it, or a printer cable, or a networking
cable or anything else.
It's an odious form of copy protection. If they HAD to use a dongle,
they should've put it on another port, such as mouse/joystick port #2,
which I'd guess most animators/artists would be a lot less likely
to already have something plugged into than their parallel ports.
You asked about Imagine. It has no copy protection.
As far as the PeeCee flavor of LightWave, I believe it too has a dongle
on the parallel port. Whether or not it passes thru the pins I don't
know since I don't have a PeeCee, don't plan to buy one, and generally
