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From: sam@ms.uky.edu (Michael W. Mills)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Virus
Keywords: Thank God it's impossible!
Message-ID: <14876@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 90 18:02:54 GMT
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salan@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Salim Alam) writes:

>In article <6368@rouge.usl.edu> wakres01@pa.usl.edu (Stelly John B) writes:
>>
>>To the best of my knowledge (as an electrical engineering student who repairs
>>amigas and C64's) it is impossible to write to a write protected disk using the
>>amiga's disk controller, and currently there is no way of using the disk drive
>>on a standard amiga without going through the controller...
>>

Actually, you CAN write to a write protected disk on a C64 (and 1541
disk drive)...you've got 1K (I think, its been a while) in which you
can write a program that calls the write routine (which is in ROM)
after it checks for the write protect switch.  Well, there's a little
more set up to it than that, but it is possible...

Ahh, the good old days...