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Anyone else remember the DOS days where you would start an application and it would tell you in a cryptic font "Pg351, P2, Ln3, Ch3 thru 10" and you would just
by zelon88 7y ago
Anyone else remember the DOS days where you would start an application and it would tell you in a cryptic font "Pg351, P2, Ln3, Ch3 thru 10" and you would just have to know that meant you had to open the user manual to page 351 and type characters 3 through 10 from line 3 paragraph 2.
Then there were some creative ones like B-17 Flying Fortress which had a paper decoding tool where you slid the paper rings to match the symbols on the screen. This revealed another symbol through a hole in the paper that you selected on the computer from a list to "prove" you had a legitimate copy of the game.
- brewtide 7y agoOh man! If I recall correctly, Prince of Persia was perhaps this way on the Mac? I have the vaguest memory of some stapled , crinkled, photocopied pages as reference...
- Nihilartikel 7y agoOld XCOM-UFO Defense had this too. Also my first experience with a hex editor to remove tedious DRM by setting the expected words in the binary to 'xxxx'.
- m463 7y agoLeather Goddesses of Phobos had a Scratch n Sniff version. And although not exactly copy protection, Leisure Suit Larry had a great "Age Check" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leather_Goddesses_of_Phobos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leather_Goddesses_of_Phobos http://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.html http://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.htm...