Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!helios.ee.lbl.gov!ncis.tis.llnl.gov!lll-winken!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!oxygen!acadch!impch!accsys!sosaria!wizard From: wizard@sosaria.UUCP (Chris Brand) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: SimCity Message-ID: <0325.AA0325@sosaria> Date: 9 Aug 89 23:54:10 GMT Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Lines: 28 In articleSteven Wright writes: >SimCity works fine on my harddisk. The copy from floppy to harddisk does >have problems with one file. But this is probably something to do with the >copy protection. You DO need the otiginal disk in df0:, but once the game >verifies that you have an original disk, all I/O is to the hard disk. The copy protection SimCity uses is called Long Track. The problem with this kind of protection is that if your drives are used a lot and not exactly adjusted, they *may* have problems with the long track, a track in which more information is stored than normally (this is done by lowering the drive rotation speed, thus to copy it, you need to change your hardware). Now if your drives have problems reading it, the software thinks this is a copy and does not start (or produces a guru). I strongly suggest that software companies should no longer use this kind of protection. It caused me problems already several times now. Chris -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Brand Berne, Switzerland Wizard BANG: ...!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!impch!accsys!sosaria!wizard OR: ...!uunet!acad!acadch!impch!accsys!sosaria!wizard SHORT: wizard@sosaria.ccs.imp.com "Justice is the possession and doing of what one is entitled to" - Platon ---------------------------------------------------------------------------