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From: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: copy protection flame
Message-ID: <224@drivax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Oct-86 14:01:49 EST
Article-I.D.: drivax.224
Posted: Fri Oct 31 14:01:49 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 3-Nov-86 19:27:28 EST
References: <246@bath63.UUCP>
Reply-To: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway)
Organization: Digital Research, Inc., Monterey
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In article <246@bath63.UUCP> pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Paul Smee) writes:
>I had a go at copying the Epyx disk.  It appears to work, but when you
>try to run the copy, you get put into what appears to be an infinite
>'put disk A into drive A; put disk B into drive A' loop.  I actually
>gave that a try for a bit over 80 swaps, figuring that, since they hadn't
>said it was copy-protected, they might have simply made it 'unattractive'
>to copy by requiring that you somehow 'validate' the 80 tracks individually.
>Finally decided that's not the case.  It annoyed me enough to decide that
>I think I'll try to crack that one, though.

I copied Rogue over to my hard disk, and it runs fine from there, although
it requires the original disk in 'A'... it just accesses it for a couple
of seconds. Also, you can only save files to the original disk! But at
least the loading time is slashed, especially for those l-o-n-g picture
files.
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