> As a software developer, simply think about why you're doing it in
> the first place. If you're just doing it for fun, then you might as
> well do it for free, or ask just enough to get your investment back.
> If you're doing it for 'fame and glory', do it so that you'll get the
> most of that. And if you're doing it for money: go out and do
> something else, or certainly don't code for MSX ;-)
If you like "fame and glory", then I can also say, that do something else,
but don't proggram MSX. If you do, then you can be almoust sure, that you
so not get any feed back. (Yes, I have mailed to plenty of "real" coders.)
Money is anyway good thing to test how good copy protection you can make.
> Copy-protections:
> ------------------------
> Bullshit! It's been tried, tested, figured out, and been experienced
> by 'the masses', and you all know it: it doesn't work. It gives
> trouble in the short run (replacing disks, difficult HD
> installation), also for the developers themselves (they must cook up
> something to use, and it takes extra development time, and trouble to
> produce the originals). In the long run, it won't matter. If you can
> write it, a cracker can hack it.
The "thing" has allways been, how long it takes from crackers to hack it.
If this time is long enough, then you have winned the battle...
Only working copy protection would be hardware extencion, that would do
something useful. (forexample 3D texture mapper, or 2Kb ROM mapper in
Konami style) That would atleast slow down the crack enough, but that
would be too expencive.
> 'splash-screen', to be disabled with a 'key' file. I think TED for
> instance, is one of the best examples: no extra troubles for the
> users, every copy 'branded' with the name of the rightfull owner, and
> even if this would be ignored, I'm sure that the mentioning of the
> good case it was related to (Multiple Scleroses) will have made
> several people buy one, when they wouldn't have otherwise. This cause
> it was related to, surely benefited from that somehow. And yes, if
> you want to, you can keep using it on your PC (works fine on
> emulators I tried). Isn't that the way to go?
That name part (TED 2.66) was totaly too easy to change... Don't kill me,
but I did it year ago. :-) (If someone knows where to buy a original
version, then let me know.) Anyway this proggram had a real cool
protection. If you did not change that "check-sum" part, it worked
othervise good, but disk (F3+D) function halted the computer.
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