Ridiculous piracy warnings on the Amiga

[AlexJ]

While scanning in The Chaos Engine's manual for the site I came across this warning:



WTF? Backing up the disk may destroy it? It's illegal to make a back up? Both news to me!

Anyone know of any other games or applications on Amiga that had as or perhaps even more ridiculous warnings of what might happen if you tried copying the disk?

[v85rawdeal]

It may not quite bear the same relevance, but I do remember one of the Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge games having a subliminal message in the title music...

The message was "You will not copy this game...".

I found this out after ripping the music from my version... which just goes to show that it didn't work...

Nice try, though... I still have the sample somewhere!!!

[AlexJ]

Yeah I remember finding that out a few years back. Never noticed it before, because I played on a Mono TV mostly. It's very noticeable in stereo through headphones though.

Sample attached (zipped .wav file).

[Demon Cleaner]

I'm sure, that out there in our big world, were a lot of people, that didn't try copying the disks whilst reading the warning, assuming it would really destroy their original. Perhaps some amigas had a built in shredder.

[Submeg]

Well the drive seemed to eat through some of my disks.....I remember thinking, "I should back Wings up..." and then grrrrrrrn.......disk gone.

[Demon Cleaner]

The drive made indeed some weird and eerie noises, sometimes I really thought it would shred the disks to dust.

[Teho]

Actually, that the drives sometimes really chewed your disk is kind of half true. Many game and demo programmers coded their own trackloaders, or floppy controllers if you will. And the way many of these treated the disks and the drive wasn't very healthy at all.