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Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 month agoIt just rings a bell, but that’s about it. But I remember the early copy protections…like these paper wheels to scroll through symbols to enter a code before playing.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
turn to page 57 and read word 12 on line 5. that’s the password.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Oh yes lol, and those. But they had to up their protection when we just included the scanned manual 😁
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
my favorites were: at the beginning of the game:
**Please do not pirate this. We worked hard and could use some money"
or something like that. The shareware version of Doom got me hooked on FPSes for a good decade though.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Oh yes. It even worked. I felt bad if I didn’t pay. But also it wasn’t that easy. For me, back then, only one big shop had games for those rare computers. And it was a 1hr drive with my bike…
Oh yes…I still know the maps and cheatcodes by memory. I was there Gandalf, 3000 years ago!