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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dungeon Master crashes
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Date: 15 Jun 89 01:48:52 GMT
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In article <1909@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP (Daniel Jay Barrett) writes:
}In article <14440@watdragon.waterloo.edu> hpchang@spurge.waterloo.edu (Hsi P. Chang) writes:
}>Perhaps you're running Amiga DM off a backup disk ?
}
}	Nope -- original disk.  In fact, this is my SECOND original disk.
}FTL sent me another when I told them that my first one didn't work.  Both
}disks exhibited the problems I described.  :-(

It could be that your drives are sick or at least way out of
adjustment.  I _think_ that the DM copy protection scheme involves
using some stuff on the disk that a normal drive is supposed to be able
to *read* but it takes a hacked-up drive to *write*.  If for some
reason your drive/driver can't keep up with the accelerated or
decelerated data rate, it might make the software think that it is
a copied disk.

ps, what *do* they do to the drives to get them to go faster and cram an extra
sector in?  Can an Amiga do that with anything approximating its 'normal'
hardware?

  /Bernie\