| From: | Jonathan Hart |
| Date: | 17 Aug 2000 at 01:03:20 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga Piracy |
Hi there Andy
On 16-Aug-00, you wrote:
> In the case of stopping someone copying something for a friend, there's
> not really any option that's not going to piss off legitimate users, is
> there? My personal favourites were some of the old Spectrum games and
> their copy protection things. Lots of coloured blobs you could probably
> write down easily enough in about 30 mins? The wonderful LensLok thing
> used on Elite (Anyone remember that one? About a 10% chance of it
> working?)
:) I love stuff like that- why not get rid of the game altogether?...
There was a C64 one which was just an enormous sheet of coloured dots (it
looked like one of Damien Hirst's Spot paintings..) and you had to figure
something out with these dots to get into the game. I think it was a
Mastertronic game...?
Another one I remember was the Rocket Ranger wheel- that decoder thing which
was an inherent part of the game IIRC. Gotta get those fuel measures right
or ol' RocketBoy ended up in the drink...Ah, Cinemaware :)
All the best,
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