Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcnc!rti!sas!bts From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Copy protection: boycott it! Message-ID: <172@sas.UUCP> Date: Sun, 12-Jul-87 02:11:05 EDT Article-I.D.: sas.172 Posted: Sun Jul 12 02:11:05 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 18:08:45 EDT References: <4826@sgi.SGI.COM> <4238@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <640@nis.NIS.MN.ORG> Organization: SAS Institute Inc.,Cary NC,25712 Lines: 19 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?