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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A2000 + Janus + copy-write problems??
Message-ID: <2436@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 02:18:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  1 02:18:51 1987
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in article <977@utflis.UUCP>, wayne@utflis.UUCP (Wayne Young) says:
> 
> I'm having REAL problems getting certain Electronic Arts copy-protected
> disks to boot on my A2000+Janus bridgeboard combination.  In particular,
> I can't get Arcticfox and Archon to run on Amy.  My dealer tells me that
> this is probably the result of the copy-protection gagging on Janus's
> presence, and there's nothing to do but write to EA and hope, hope, hope
> they'll do something about it (like reply to my letter...)

I'm not all that sure about this.  The Janus board would be completely 
invisible to any program that hasn't run a Binddrivers before itself.
Most boot-it-from-the-disk programs would fall into this category, though
a quick perusal of the offending disk's Startup-Sequence should tell you
if this is a potential problem or not.  Even if the Janus.Library is loaded,
though, I wouldn't expect it to interfere with any games any more than any
other program.  Some of the copy protection schemes play games with the disks
that bother me, though.  There may be some that have trouble with different
vendor's drive mechanisms.  One thing I've heard of is a scheme to change
drive speed by pulsing the drive motor.  This is one of the things that's
clearly not going to work between vendors, as the resulting drive speed is
probably more closely related to the mass of the drive's flywheel, which
will probably vary greatly.

> Now that the B2000's are out, does anybody else have this problem? Does
> anybody at CA know what's going on?  Please help, as I payed big coin
> for these programs (I used to play them at work), and I quite enjoyed them.

Maybe it's time to break out some games.  What do ya think, Jeff?  

> Thanks,
> wayne
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Dave Haynie     Commodore-Amiga    Usenet: {ihnp4|caip|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh
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