Weeks of testing by professional people is always going to be better than a few late nights for some cracker. The fact you do not know if they work or not for *sure*, is why they are so bad. The real issue is that they are never going to be as reliable as the originals. The point is that the (vast majority of) originals worked! Also, I think the 'failure rate of cracks' is not really the issue. Oh, and I do agree with you about crap programming in games probably caused cracks to fail. I am not sure I entirely agree with it either, but that is another argument entirely. Of course, you could argue that piracy helped the Amiga gain such a huge following. I certainly wasn't, but then I used the 'real thing' as my main computer up until 1998/9 so didn't have any real need to. In fact, AFAIK, very few of us were big Amiga emulator users before CAPS anyway. Same for supporting such images in emulators.ģ) CAPS would have happened without WinUAE or any other Amiga emulator available though it might have been very slightly different. These would have been the ones passed about the Internet and (at least initially) used for emulator development.Ģ) Something 'like' CAPS would have come around earlier(!) The greater the need, the more people that would have been interested in doing it. There are lots without protection, expecially in the vast amount of budget versions. The most astonishing thing is that after entering three WRONG passwords, the game continues as if nothing had happened! I did not even press HELP to 'awaken the sleeping program'.ġ) Many original games stored in normal AmigaDOS format would be able to be played. The password check only appears to be done in MODE B, never in MODE A (as far as I tested). Nonetheless, I've tried the EP crack for fun's sake - and hmmm. that was Endless Stupi.eh Piracy.įor the record, there's now a QUBE crack in TOSEC which should do the job nicely.

Which it did, except that the game was in German and it ignored all input of any kind so you couldn't play the game because 'Press Fire To Start' was asking something of the user that wasn't possible.īWAAAHAAHA. the opening intro gave instructions in both English and German sayign that there was nothing they could do to circumvent the copy protection (wow, great job guys!) but after entering the wrong code three times you could press the HELP key and it would run fine.

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