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From: billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Emerald Mines / Disk copiers
Message-ID: <1990Nov2.183325.4364@agora.uucp>
Date: 2 Nov 90 18:33:25 GMT
References: <1990Oct23.192706.20046@world.std.com> <1990Oct31.235930.7746@agora.uucp> <1990Nov1.190618.10239@world.std.com>
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In article <1990Nov1.190618.10239@world.std.com> levin@world.std.com (Levin F Magruder) writes:
:Supposing that's the problem, can the disk be unprotected?  I've been playing
:with the original distribution disk, with the write-protect disabled, so
:that it could save my progress, but as I described, it seems to be erratic
:about doing so.  Will project D or any of those things do the trick for me?

	Boy, I can't say for sure, but I would *think* that Project D would
deprotection on EM and EM2. The games are certainly old enough now for copy
programs to have caught up. :-) I seem to remember a 'how to' file kicking
around a couple of years ago with the location of the bytes that needed to
be changed to do the deprotect also, but I don't find it in a casual search
though. It's less of a need for EM2, since your data files are all on a second,
no protected, disk.

:Another game I seem to have a disk problem with is WG Hockey.  I put the disk
:in, and about 20% of the time it boots OK.  Other times, it just sits in 
:the machine for about 5 minutes (literally) and then boots.  Thereafter, it
:plays ok, but there are NEVER any fights.  (even playing pro, with fights
:on.)  Anyone know of a disk copier that'll deprotect Gretzky?  (I think I
:have one of the earlier releases of the game).

	This one I know Project D did. They used to have a special routine
just for WG Hockey.

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