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Article #5935Re: BOP questions
From: Bill Silvert
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1989 17:09
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1989 17:09
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In article <11830064@hpldola.HP.COM> jg@hpldola.HP.COM (Joe Gilray) writes:
>
>I recently purchased a used version of the original version of
>BALANCE OF POWER (Thanks, peter!). I'm very impressed with the
>game but a have a few questions which are not dealt with in the
>manual:
>
>1) The game appears to be copy protected, at least none of the
> copys I made ran, they all bombed. It runs fine from the
> original disk. Has anyone made a backup or do I have to run
> from the original?
I haven't run it for a while, but my experience was that it only checked
the original disk when first booted. After that I could swap in a
duplicate disk and it ran fine. This solves your questions about saving
the game, etc.
--
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cs.dal.ca!silvert From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: BOP questions Summary: You can swap disks after booting Message-ID: <1989Nov20.170914.11385@cs.dal.ca> Date: 20 Nov 89 17:09:14 GMT References: <11830064@hpldola.HP.COM> Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert) Reply-To: bill@biomel.UUCP Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography Lines: 23