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- On Thu, 16 Feb 1995, Ludwig wrote:
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- > Is there anyway to and a non-dos boot block to a disk, which will run an
- > executable file on the disk? I just want to make my amos games non-dos
- > disks (partly so i can DMS em on to aminet!)
- >
- I believe the Aminet doesn't welcome .DMS files, only .LHA - and most
- users nowadays don't welcome non-dos disks either.
-
- I have an Amiga 4000. Many good games turn up on non-dos disks, and I
- can't install these on my hard drive. Guaranteed I will return them or
- junk them or find someone who hacked away on it enough to make it
- HD-installable. Part of the reason the Amiga has failed a lot lately in
- the games category has
- been due to the ignorance of large game developers in this respect.
-
- I will not play your game if it won't install on my hard drive. I
- program in AMOS (look for /game/2play/airTaxi.lha on the Aminet) and my
- games will always be HD-installable (though it seems not always
- system-friendly).
-
- In short, you can still protect your work before storing it in an .LHA
- archive. I assume you want to use a non-dos disk to protect your work,
- but users will not be so accepting of your game unless it installs.
-
- You should ask on the amos-list for ways to protect your work, rather
- than insulting other Amiga users.
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- One last thing: large game developers use non-dos disks and other disk
- corruption schemes to protect against illegal duplication and to protect
- their work. I can guarantee to you that the hundreds of groups of
- software pirates in the Amiga community will only be slightly delayed in
- altering commercial software to be more easily distributed when these
- techniques are used. And this usually happens before the game is even
- released to the masses.
-
- Does anyone else share these views?
-
- >
- > Lud.
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