Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!gatech!ncar!ames!amdahl!dwl10 From: dwl10@amdahl.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Review: Adventure Construction Set Message-ID: <97ly92c7S71010boqkE@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> Date: 12 Jul 88 17:24:32 GMT References: <960SUb8pfj10109AH/A@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <381@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: dwl10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Houston TX Lines: 48 In article <381@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> czei@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael S. Czeiszperger) writes: > >Although I own 5 other EA games, the copy protection on ACS and Bard's >Tale II are particularily vicious. I know, my Blue Chip drive isn't >supposed to be able to handle that kind of protection, but after trying >ACS and BTII in the stores, I just couldn't pass them up. It is >extremely maddening to pay $30-$40 for a computer game only to have >to replace the disks 2 and 3 times at MY EXPENSE. > >I expected the games not to load at all, but suprise, they did. If they >would not have loaded and run, I would have simply taken them back >for a refund. The problem was, after I reported to the dealer that they >worked fine, and wanted to keep them, the disks quickly started getting errors, >until finally they would not load at all. The BTII disks accumulated >several bad blocks, which would hang the game right when I was about to >solve a dungeon. To get around this I had to copy the disk, and then go >in with an editor and try to re-construct the uncopyable blocks. >This was after I replaced my entire first set of disks that became totally >unusable. Copy protection causes more problems for legitimate users that >hackers; it would be more effecient to prosecute those who steal their >programs than cause miles of headaches for their customers. I'm never >going to buy another EA product unless it is absolutely free of copy >protection. > >FLAMES off; > For what it's worth..... BARDS TALE III (The newest in the series) is NOT copy protected. Insted they have a "code wheel" that is used to produce a secret code needed to get antwhere in the game. They even suggest that you DO copy the disks, and save the originals. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- "This isn't Heaven, this is Cleveland!!!!" Dave Lowrey Amdahl Corp. Houston, Texas (713)-850-8828 ...!{ames,sun,decwrl,uunet,....}!amdahl!dwl10 [ The opinions expressedbe those of the author and not necessarily those of his most eminent employer. ]