Re: Code Wheels

Spalls Hurgenson  <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

Anyone else have fond memories of this stupid thing, or is this a hill
on which I'm going to die alone? ;-)

I didn't mind code wheels that much.  You only had to use them once at
start up and loading times were so long back then that it didn't add
that much a delay before you could playing them.  But I don't have fond
memories of them.  If play through Pool of Radiance again, I'm not going
to get out my old code wheel, I'm going to play a cracked version.

Also like all early methods of copy protection, I'm not sure how much they
actually prevented piracy.  It wasn't that hard or expensive to photocopy
a code wheel at the library, and cracks weren't too hard to find.

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