Author: William Penn
Date: 07:46:46 01/12/01
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On January 12, 2001 at 09:57:56, Marc S. Levine wrote: >There are a number of dire warnings in the CM8000 documentation that state the >CD should always be used when using the program, or else it would behave >erratically. However, I have been able to play without the disk (I did the >full install, including all the multimedia options)) and have not noticed any >problems. With CM7000, if you started the program without the disk, and >explicit message would appear saying you have a certain number of uses left >before the disk would be required. > >Does anyone know anything else about this issue? Why was the change made from >CM7000 to 8000 and is there really any need to use the disk with 8000? > >thanks, >Marc It's not necessary to use the disk with CM8000, however it is likely that the patch due out in 3-4 weeks will make it necessary -- although I want to strongly lobby in favor of... Once every 30 days or every 30 starts. That should be sufficient copyright protection for them. [Actually it is overkill, because the disk itself has copy protection, i.e. it can't be copied.] And it should be acceptable to most users. WP
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