Re: Help --> How to prevent the visit from the dreaded guru

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From: Matt Crowd
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 1991 09:24

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In article <1991Jan7.150214.24971@maytag.waterloo.edu> himacdon@maytag.uwaterloo.ca (Hamish Macdonald) writes:
>>>>>> In article <1991Jan7.110218.9448@marlin.jcu.edu.au>,
>>>>>> glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd) writes:
>
>Matt> I used this, or something similar once to crash the Amiga when a
>Matt> password protection failed.  Takes ages though.  Suggestions for
>Matt> a better crash would be appreciated.  Maybe copying the screen
>Matt> bitmap into the Exec structure....
>
>I hope that this is a stand-alone program.  If any program I ran ever
>crashed the machine just because I typed the wrong password, that
>program would be sent back for a refund _fast_.
>
>Lord save us from idiot programmers.
>

You are hardly likely to get the word wrong THREE times if
you bought the program!!  Pirates deserve all they get.

What do you want me to do? Print "So you pirated this game. Have
a nice day"?  Anyway, as most games don't even multitask, if the
program quit from a state of no OS it may as well crash.

>himacdon@maytag.uwaterloo.ca                 watmath!maytag!himacdon

Colin Adams

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From: glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Help --> How to prevent the visit from the dreaded guru
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Date: 9 Jan 91 09:24:35 GMT
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