"There exists an electron microscope so powerful it can see the atoms, the very building blocks of matter that control the universe. If I were to use that microscope, I would not be able to locate my interest in your problem. Good day!"
I deplore any form of -ism, but it seems people shout if they don't have freedom of speech and then cry foul if someone uses that right to FOS to broadcast their, sometimes unpleasant views!
Neatest copy prot was the wheel in Cinemaware's Rocket Ranger (early 90's). In order to play the game you had to know how much fuel to pack to fly the backpack, this you got off the copy-prot wheel thingy. You needed to look various codes about 20 times during the game! Eventually I got fed up and laid the wheel out in a spreadsheet on A4, but the sneaky buggers knew you still had to use it with the game to play it, so wheel or A4 grid, you stll had to have this "hardware device"! The other schemes where funny coloured grids of numbers that wouldn't photocopy on a standard black and white copier or they used yellow dotted colours to stop colour copiers working, you had to play with the RGB settings on the colour copiers to get the sheets digitized. Fun days!
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"There exists an electron microscope so powerful it can see the atoms, the very building blocks of matter that control the universe. If I were to use that microscope, I would not be able to locate my interest in your problem. Good day!"
I deplore any form of -ism, but it seems people shout if they don't have freedom of speech and then cry foul if someone uses that right to FOS to broadcast their, sometimes unpleasant views!
Neatest copy prot was the wheel in Cinemaware's Rocket Ranger (early 90's). In order to play the game you had to know how much fuel to pack to fly the backpack, this you got off the copy-prot wheel thingy. You needed to look various codes about 20 times during the game! Eventually I got fed up and laid the wheel out in a spreadsheet on A4, but the sneaky buggers knew you still had to use it with the game to play it, so wheel or A4 grid, you stll had to have this "hardware device"! The other schemes where funny coloured grids of numbers that wouldn't photocopy on a standard black and white copier or they used yellow dotted colours to stop colour copiers working, you had to play with the RGB settings on the colour copiers to get the sheets digitized. Fun days!
Another day, another flaw! Just another happy day in "paradise"! Call me when you wake up and smell the OSX/*nix brewing....