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Subject: Re: Need help backing up new EA software
Message-ID: <399@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Mar-87 11:02:55 EST
Article-I.D.: neoucom.399
Posted: Fri Mar 13 11:02:55 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Mar-87 15:04:13 EST
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Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Summary: Marauder II & EA Slowness


Hi,

Yes, Marauder II will apparently back-up the new EA disks.  Please,
no griping; I DID buy Deluxe Music, and have yet to get my duly
authorized backup copy, but I have received my DPaint II backup --
it took about 6 (gak!) weeks for them to send it.

We were able to back up the copy of Deluxe Music that we bought in
Cleveland, OH with Marauder II without any problems.
Interestingly, the copy protection seems to have been disabled on
the backup copy, something that I don't consider all that
necessary.  In fact copying the protection scheme along would
prevent unuathorized re-backing up by other people.

What is neat about Marauder II is that it uses a  parameter file
for the copy anaysis.  If you've got a modem, you can download the
lastest version of the parameter file from the company's BBS.
That's not bad, as the file is only about 6K long.

If I had any complaints about Marauder II, it would be that it is
one of those silly programs that makes you look up things from the
owner's manual before it will run for you.

Here's a complaint about Deluxe music that I don't recall having
seen in the last lenghty posting on the Net.  In the code of the
program, the fixed disk is referred to as "HD0", rather than "DH0"
that it should be.  It took a while to figure out why the program
was barfing on the fixed disk, since the requester box says "DH0".
Once we nailed down the problem, Filezap quickly put an end to the
transliteration problem.  Of course, back it up rather than
filezapping your original copy!  If memory serves me right, the
fixed disk is also goofed up in DPaint II, but with a different
misspelling.

Bill Mayhew
Division of Basic Medical Sciences
Northeastern Ohio Universities' College of Medicine
Rootstown, OH  44272  USA    phone:  216-325-2511
(wtm@neoucom.UUCP   ...!cbatt!neoucom!wtm)