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"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

It 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    turn to page 57 in the printed manual and read word 12 on line 5. that's the password.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Oh yes lol, and those. But they had to up their protection when we just included the scanned manual 😁

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months 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!

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