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From: joem@nos850.UUCP (Joe Muller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Commercial Disk Copier and Archiver Woes
Keywords: copy, archive, 2500
Message-ID: <216@nos850.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 91 03:53:09 GMT
Organization: US Naval Ordnance Station  Louisville, KY
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  After having recently upgraded to a 2500/30 system, I went to make archive
backups of some games that came with the system only to find out that the
2500 refused to copy them (ie it spit it out all sorts of nasty errors).  
Pessimistically I tried copying them on my 500 which is still lying around and
I had no problem.  I've already resigned to selling the programs that don't
work, but I don't want to go out and buy some new disk copier only to find out
it too doesn't work (neither do I want to keep my 500 handy just for backups!)
Here are a few of the copiers in question:
  X Copy v2.0
  Raw Copy v1.3 (this one blew up on me!)
Some of the originals I had trouble copying included games like DeathBringer
,TV Sports Basketball, and Wings by Cinemaware (never had trouble with them up 
until now) and Joan of Arc: Seige and the Sword by Broderbund.

Anybody having any comments or suggestions please post them here.

Joe Muller
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