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From: ewhac@well.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Copy protection: boycott it!
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Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 01:15:26 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 10 01:15:26 1987
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Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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In article <1634@stb.UUCP> michael@stb.UUCP (Michael) writes:
:Ok, here's what I think we need as far as games go. Personally, I won't buy any
:product (game, tool, compiler, or whatever) until it passes these
:1. Not copy protected
:2. Supports multitasking (NO BUSY WAITS)
:3. If it hogs the machine, then a pause button will unhog (for games; see 
:	mindwalker)
:4. Internally consistent (now we're on games)
:	...if you have to eat, those bearers should have to eat as well.
:5. Good user interface. Do not force me to rotate my joystick, [ etc. ]
:6. Work under 1.2 with expanded memory.
:
:There is NO game on the market that passes all of these; there are a few that
:^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
:passed 1-5; there are many PD or PA games that pass 1-6.
:
	I have an ASDG MR-C with two megs of RAM, and regularly use 1.2
release.  My copy of MindWalker (circa Oct '85, or thereabouts) works
perfectly, thank you, and appears to satisfy all six of your conditions.
Do you know something I don't?

	My *copy* of MindWalker works great, too (MindWalker is unprotected,
remember).

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