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From: gordon@sage.cs.reading.ac.uk (Simon Gordon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: copy pretection
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Date: Fri, 14-Nov-86 10:49:01 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 14 10:49:01 1986
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Reply-To: gordon@sage.UUCP (Simon Gordon)
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Reading Univ. UK.
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>Having bought Rogue, I tried to copy it with a copier that I have acquired
>( merely to give myself a back-up copy, of course... ;-)  )  and found that
>one of the options gave me a copy which ran perfecly until about level three,
>whence the slightest hit from anything ( even a bat ) killed me, reset my
>gold to zero, and displayed on the gravestone:
>
>		/-------------\
>		:  Software   :
>		:  Pirate     :
>		:	      :
>		: Scum of the :
>		:  Universe   :
>		:	      :
>		: killed on	
>		: level three :
>		: with 0 gp's :
>	--------+-------------+-----------
>
>	Thong.
>
This is indeed a problem, I have found that I can back it up with STCOPY20
(for my own use of course). But as I have a double sided drive this is a
bit of a nuicance as the protected disk is single sided.

This morning, I used STCOPY20 to copy it to a double sided disk, then formated
the disk from the desk top as double sided, then copied the other files back
onto the new double sided disk - this worked (at least up to level 8) -
so the protection is, as usual, data in tracks 81, 82, or 83 (if you number
from 1 as the first track). This should work for converting other protected
software to protected double sided versions - its even easier with programs
that can be backed up with procopy 2.01 (ive modified my version to do 83
instead of 82 tracks) as you can tell that to just copy tracks 81, 82, and 83
rather than the whole disk.

Hope this helps all those users with double sided drives annoyed at the
waisted space with protected software.

Simon at Reading University.