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From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Copy protection: boycott it!
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Date: Sun, 12-Jul-87 02:11:05 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 12 02:11:05 1987
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Summary: I don't buy protected software.  You just have to look harder.


I have not yet bought any copy-protected software for my Amiga.
(My wife bought I game with the look-up-the-word, but it is an
adventure game that features a computer, so it actually fits into
the action quite naturally.)  You just have to:

1.  Look a little harder.
2.  Ask before you buy, and
3.  Not be into games too much.

BTW, for those of you looking for a decent spelling checker, (I understand
there aren't too many good ones out, and I've stumbled across one):  look
into LexCheck, by CDA.  $37.98 from Computer Discount [303-825-2943]; has
a 100,000-word dictionary with a fairly diverse (and a bit random) set of
words.  Nice, interactive, `real-Amiga' user-interface.  Biggest problem:
it has a nasty habit of writing to $0 and then *reading* from it, so you
must *not* run it with MemWatch.  Otherwise, quite nice.  I wrote them but
haven't heard back.  Need I say I have no connection with the company?
Need I say also that it has no copy protection?