Your move creep | dreamkatcha
Your move creep
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Author: dreamkatcha
Added by: dreamkatcha
Added Date: 2020-08-04
Publication Date: 2020-08-04
Language: eng
Subjects: Ocean Software, Gary Bracey, piracy, Amiga, Commodore, dongle, Digital Image Design
Collections: folkscanomy fiction, folkscanomy, additional collections
Pages Count: 300
PPI Count: 300
PDF Count: 1
Total Size: 8.15 MB
PDF Size: 441.54 KB
Extensions: epub, pdf, gz, torrent, zip
License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International
Downloads: 62
Views: 112
Total Files: 13
Media Type: texts
Description
An in-depth analysis of Ocean Software's innovative, experimental effort to combat piracy through dongle-based authorisation. RoboCop 3, published in 1992, was chosen as the game through which to test the optimistic technique. Accompanying three floppy disks was a hardware device you would be obliged, rather inconveniently, to connect to one of your Amiga system's joystick ports whenever playing the game. Unfortunately for Ocean - and possibly the fate of the Amiga as a viable platform - the copyright protection mechanism was rapidly hacked out of the code by crackers, the resultant standalone version made freely available on a global scale.