Re: Sierra IIgs games - Any way to bypass the disk check?

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 7:19:32 PM UTC-6, nyder wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 9:49:39 AM UTC-8, Tempest wrote:
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> > Is there anyway to bypass the disk check when playing any of the IIgs Sierra adventures from a hard drive?  I actually DO own them all (missing the box for Manhunter however), but it's annoying to have to keep the disks out whenever I want to play them.  Was this check ever cracked?
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> For the record, no cares about the Apple II programs anymore, except for a few that are still being made today by people.
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> If the companies that made the games released them today, they would have to crack them anyways to be playable on whatever.  
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> In fact, for all the crap most companies talk about DRM and protection, they will leave you hanging after a year or 2 has gone by.   Now the big protection is "always connected to the internet" with them downloading parts of the game off the server (Diablo III).   How do you think the replay value is going to be in 4 years when they cut the Diablo III server?
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> Nope, the various companies don't care about it's customers and it's our duty to not only crack these programs, but to make sure others can access them for histories sake.

Beware my evil caching proxy. ;-)

-B