Archon: The Light and the Dark

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The DRM used for this game is specific to the Mac Plus. The programmer knew that it would leave the game unplayable on any other hardware and protested but EA insisted. A unprotected version was made and packed away. It was leaked to a warez site many, many years later. But, the game also uses page-flipping hardware specific to the Mac plus. Apple decided to remove this under used feature from future models, so even the leaked DRM-free version will only run on a Mac Plus (and very few emulators). Electronic Arts vigilantly continues to this day to ensure that Archon for Mac Plus only remains playable for the very few people who bought it for their Mac Plus and the very, very small subset of those who kept their Mac Plus in use to this day. EA of course, no longer sells Archon for Mac.

zerothis # 2014-10-31 23:57:37

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Archon: The Light and the Dark (MICRO 7 - FM7)
Archon: The Light and the Dark (C64)
Archon: The Light and the Dark (Apple II E)
Archon: The Light and the Dark (Amstrad CPC)
Archon: The Light and the Dark (Amiga)
Archon: The Light and the Dark (Atari 400/800)
Archon: The Light and the Dark (MS-DOS)
Archon: The Light and the Dark (NEC PC8801)
Archon: The Light and the Dark (Sharp X1)
Archon: The Light and the Dark (ZX Spectrum)
Archon (NES)