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I would tend to disagree. The end result is the same: Unless a title was popular enough to have been kept track of across half a dozen storage media changes, re
by yew 15y ago
I would tend to disagree. The end result is the same: Unless a title was popular enough to have been kept track of across half a dozen storage media changes, restoring it requires fighting against copy protection and is either very difficult or impossible. The ubiquity of such "solutions" doesn't come into it.
Anyway, this appears to have been a copy of the game for the PC. So it's really just trying to run DOS software under Windows, which isn't a terribly unusual thing to be doing.
- hackermom 15y agoHow do you imagine that the copy protection would allow for the software to migrate from its original and intended medium to another medium, while at the same time still being functionally copy protected?
- yew 15y agoI don't. Which is one of the main reasons I'm totally opposed to DRM. This particular title was popular enough to survive by way of being migrated from medium to medium over time, but plenty of historically-important software (not just games!) has been totally lost because of copy protection and the destruction of IP during corporate mergers.