When my mom wrote her book, she never did it to make money. Instead, she just wanted to tell her story. Out of hundreds of publishing companies, just 2 decided to make her a deal. She refused, and now her book sells at a slightly higher price per copy, but she retains full control over distribution. She had to think outside the box. Plenty of business will sell a book if it fits in with their ideas.

I have an uncle who’s friend made a CD in the Santa Cruz, CA area, and she distributes music through select shops around the country. She’s not trying to get her music distributed in WalMart or Target. Instead, the small shops sell plenty of copies and keeps her and the shop owners in business.

The beauty was that the game had loads of plane stats included, so I just went to the plane info pages and noted down the details there. Interestingly not all of them were correct as far as the copy protection was concerned.

Zool had a black on black code wheel I remember. That was difficult to read in the daylight, let alone in my dingy computer room.

I got a copy of test drive three with out any of the copy protection, the game became ‘how far can you get in the 30 seconds that it gives you before the car blows up’.

Leisure Suit Larry’s adult protection wasn’t so useful once you worked out that Ctrl+Alt+X bypassed the whole lot…

You had to have the giant paper map with THOUSANDS of stars on it, and it asked you for the star at two very specific coordinates.. often there was a grouping of four or five stars and you’d have to keep trying to get the right one.