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From: ggray@wpi.wpi.edu (Gary P Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Backing up old stuff
Message-ID: <12782@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 9 May 90 06:03:09 GMT
Reply-To: ggray@wpi.wpi.edu (Gary P Gray)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester ,MA
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I was waxing nostalgic about my old Dos 3.3 games a few minutes ago and dug
them out.  To my shock, some of them didn't work (gee, the disk is only 8
years old, you mean they don't last forever?) Well, anyway, does anyone know
if the new disk copying programs can defeat the copy protection scheme of
these old gems, and maybe even repair some to save them from oblivion?  Alien
Rain (my favorite Apple game, the author put his phone number on it!) and the
Asteroid Field have died.  I can't find my copy of the Arcade Machine, but I
fear the worst.  It's not like I want to get out of paying for these games,
it's just that they aren't available anymore (to the best of my knowledge.) 

Ideally, I would like to put these all on a 3 1/2" disk (if there are any
legitimate Dos 3.3 formatters for 3 1/2", didn't the author of one of the
major ones demand that everyone delete it?) but I fear that the copy
protection on it would have to be really munged for this to work.  It's kind
of a pity that the software I bought legitimatly years ago can't be used
anymore, but "cracked" games can.  One more strike against copy protection. 
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 "My mind is going... I can feel it...    |  Gary Gray -- ggray@wpi.wpi.edu
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