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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: No more Cinemaware stuff for Amiga !!!????
Summary: Give me a break.
Message-ID: <1989Aug10.191759.10197@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 10 Aug 89 19:17:59 GMT
References: <268@nrcvax.NRC.COM> <30140@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <4929@alvin.mcnc.org> <1989Jul24.163632.23920@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <903@zehntel.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
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In article <903@zehntel.UUCP> donw@zehntel.UUCP (Don White) writes:
>In article <1989Jul24.163632.23920@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
>>Also inside were some THOUSAND 3.5" diskettes, with every program ever
>>conceived for the Amiga on them.  And among them was not ONE original disk.
>>NOT ONE.
>
>>EVERY SINGLE ONE.  EACH ONE was copyable, and the people in the room didn't
>>seem to care much what you did with the disks (ie: if you had a few blanks
> 
>>I was NOT impressed.
>
>     Ah, the eyes of Heisenberg.
>
>     To quote an unknown poet of little renown...
>               STUPID! STUPID! STUPID!
>
>     THis posting ignores the number one rule of good computing.
> 
>               ALWAYS HAVE BACK UPS!
>
>     If I can't backup a program, I won't buy it. When a copy program comes
>  out, I buy the copy program AND the protected program I want. Thats right
>  I said BUY! I NEVER take originals into public. It is too risky.

Riight.  Which is why the games didn't require the codewheels and books to
start, they all had "security codes" of 00000.

And they all said "Cracked by Byte Bandit" or something similar on the title
screen, or on a loader which was put up before the game actually loaded.

And there were no manuals (original or otherwise) to be found.

And there were two or three copies of each title there as well, just in case
more than one person wanted to play a given game at any one time -- all on
nice fresh 3.5" disks, with hand-printed lables.

And....

I could go on.  But I won't.  That stuff was clearly ripped off.  What would
you like to bet the odds were that the people running the "computer room" at
this SF con had spent $50k on the software contained therein -- even if it
WAS just "backup" copies.

I bet there weren't more than 100 originals back at their offices and/or
homes, TOTAL.  Yet there were 10 X that in disks there for use.....

>     Don White
>     Box 271177 Concord, CA. 94527-1177
>     zehntel!donw

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