🚀 go-pugleaf

A 'code wheel' is an invention of Spectrum Holobyte included in every
copy of FALCON.  It is an anti-piracy device of dubious merit - one must
try to dechiper some pretty vague symbols on a code wheel and enter
the appropriate symbol when queried in order to play the game.  I found
the code wheel exteremely annoying and the symbols were so poorly drawn
in comparison with the screen display that it was very easy to enter the
wrong symbol.  When I sit down to recreate I want to play a game, not
spend half an hour trying to figure out some damn code wheel.  One very
observant user of the GEnie network commented that Spectrum Holobyte
simply copied the same manual and code wheel from the earlier released
MS-DOS version and so within weeks the code wheel diagram was up on pirate
boards - simply copied from the MS-DOS world!  Of course the ST user base
was blamed for having 'better organized pirates'.

Peter Szymonik