This is becoming more common -- thank God -- but just-released titles will likely retain copy protection for a while after their street date. More and more often, later game patches remove the CD protection, but only after that critical first few weeks or months after release when buzz is strong and sales are high, and therefore pirate activity is highest. Game companies, if you're reading this, please consider scheduled expiration of CD protection as an acceptable anti-piracy compromise!
I don't get anything for saying so, but I agree that XnView is fantastic. It's a really nice browser/viewer: free, lightweight, great features and interface, and very customizable. It also does image manipulation and batch processing. If you're still using a bloated paid app for your images, give it a try.
Right with you on both machines. The feeling of geek power in owning that C64 was just amazing. 64KB of memory! Wow! It blew away all of those little 16KB and 48KB IBM and Apple IIe machines. Back then we didn't even know how fast processors were. I think the C64 had a 1 Mhz CPU. Wicked fast, baby!
Then, the ultimate upgrade: a Disk Drive. Whoa. Begone, feeble tape deck, your time is past.
Fast forward to my first year in college when my buddy had a real live hard drive in his personal IBM PC. I thought, damn, must be nice to be made of money. Three years later I'm playing Myst on my own gear.
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This is becoming more common -- thank God -- but just-released titles will likely retain copy protection for a while after their street date. More and more often, later game patches remove the CD protection, but only after that critical first few weeks or months after release when buzz is strong and sales are high, and therefore pirate activity is highest. Game companies, if you're reading this, please consider scheduled expiration of CD protection as an acceptable anti-piracy compromise!
I don't get anything for saying so, but I agree that XnView is fantastic. It's a really nice browser/viewer: free, lightweight, great features and interface, and very customizable. It also does image manipulation and batch processing. If you're still using a bloated paid app for your images, give it a try.
Right with you on both machines. The feeling of geek power in owning that C64 was just amazing. 64KB of memory! Wow! It blew away all of those little 16KB and 48KB IBM and Apple IIe machines. Back then we didn't even know how fast processors were. I think the C64 had a 1 Mhz CPU. Wicked fast, baby!
Then, the ultimate upgrade: a Disk Drive. Whoa. Begone, feeble tape deck, your time is past.
Fast forward to my first year in college when my buddy had a real live hard drive in his personal IBM PC. I thought, damn, must be nice to be made of money. Three years later I'm playing Myst on my own gear.
Man oh man, this train moves fast.
The choice of in-game weapons would boggle the mind.
Bobby Hill: Dad, can I put a gun rack on my bike?
Hank Hill: Do you know how long I've been waiting for you to ask that?