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Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 08:21:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Bowie <ad636@freenet.toronto.on.ca>
Subject: Re: Copy Protection
To: Harv@cup.portal.com
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On Fri, 5 May 1995 Harv@cup.portal.com wrote:
> Amiga Standalone LightWave 3.5 uses a parallel port dongle. It has
> pass-thru holes on it but those holes don't pass thru nuttin. No way
> to stack another dongle on it, or a printer cable, or a networking
> cable or anything else.
>
Just to be perfectly fair, my 3.5 SA dongle (Amiga, of course) does "pass
thru" most stuff, although several apps refuse to print through it
(major pain in the ......).
> It's an odious form of copy protection. If they HAD to use a dongle,
> they should've put it on another port, such as mouse/joystick port #2,
> which I'd guess most animators/artists would be a lot less likely
> to already have something plugged into than their parallel ports.
>
If i remember correctly, this was tried at one point, but it seems to me
that this system was equally unpopular among those using the gameport as
a GPI trigger or some such....
> You asked about Imagine. It has no copy protection.
>
Maybe since so few of us Amiga users are expected to stick with the
platform, and since we're having a partially "crippled" version foisted
off on us anyway (lack of full support for capabilities of current
machines) -
PERHAPS WE FEW OF THE FAITHFUL DON'T REALLY POSE A
SUBSTANTIAL PIRACY THREAT, AND THE AMIGA VERSION WON'T REQUIRE A
DONGLE (Hint, hint).!!!
After all, I thinks there's only you, me, and the other
guy, and we're honest...what self respecting pirate would bother with the
three of us?
> As far as the PeeCee flavor of LightWave, I believe it too has a dongle
> on the parallel port. Whether or not it passes thru the pins I don't
> know since I don't have a PeeCee, don't plan to buy one, and generally
> dislike them completely :)
>
> Harv
> harv@cup.portal.com
>
Ahhh...a "cogniscenti"!! (Actually, I might eventually get one for my son
as a game machine :-)
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* Steve Bowie |"Commodore is dead - *
* ad636@torfree.net | long live the Amiga!!!" *
* North York, Ontario, Canada | SPECTRAN *
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