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In article <39kigq$9...@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> gme...@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (GM Enierga) writes:

>>>>        What's the point of even TRYING to pirate games, especially like
>>>>Origin's?  You can't play them without the manuals, since the manuals pack so
>much useful info.
>>>>        Just my opinion.

>>>Oh, I dunno, I think you can play System Shock without hardly ever looking at 
>>>the manual.  Wings of Glory can't be all that hard.  Even WC Armada is pretty 
>>>easy.
>>> --- Alan Dunkin
>>>

>        But even with System Shock, it never tells you on the screen ANYWHERE
>how to activate the Fragmantation Grenade.  Had to go to the manual for that
>one.  And since I am still on level 1, (not even near the end, I don't think)
>I believe there are more little tricks like that spread throughout the entire
>game.  Yet another example: those items you pick up which seem utterly useless
>like beverages, worker hats, etc do not appear to have a function in the game.
>Unless you read the manual you have no idea what is going on - well, with the
>little things anyway (and didn't some one once say that "the little things in
>life count"? ;-) ).
>        So my original post stands.

Which was your original post?  If it's the one on trying to pirate games, then 
I disagree.

However, I agree that some games need manuals, X-Wing, and most RPGs comes to 
mind.  However, it is easy to pirate these games and manuals.  The disks can 
be copied easily, and as for the manual, we have the great invention called a 
photocopier.

Even if you photocopy the entire manual, cover to cover, it is still going to 
cost you less than what you would have to pay for the game.

Please note that I do not advocate the piracy of games.  However, it would be 
naive for one to think that it does not exist, or is hard to do.

BTW, as for those spinning codes wheels (Pools of Radiance, Curse of the 
Azure Bonds, Secrets of the Luftwuffe) they can be copied too.  Many ways of 
doing it.  One that I have seen is to dismantle the wheel, and then make 
copies.  Then cut out the windows on the front wheel.  Stick them together 
with a thumbtack and cover the back of the tack with a piece of wood.  Not a 
very good wheel, but fuctional.


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Ng, Kai Koon
University of Tasmania, Australia
Electrical & Electronics Engineering
email : kk...@postoffice.utas.edu.au
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