Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!STEIN From: STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: BITNET mail follows Message-ID: <8710211015.aa06235@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 10:55:00 EDT Article-I.D.: SMOKE.8710211015.aa06235 Posted: Wed Oct 21 10:55:00 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Oct-87 06:41:13 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 160 Backup Instructions Obtained From CompuServe Here's how to make a working backup copy of Music Studio that does not ask you to insert the master disk. In order to make an unprotected copy you need: 1)Any disk copy program that will ignore bad blocks on the disk. Copy II+ and Glen Bredon's volume copy program from Prosel will work fine. 2)A ProDOS block/sector editor. Block Warden (Prosel), Copy II+ sector editor, or the Bag of Tricks II Zap program will work. If you don't have access to one of these programs, a program that will do the job can be found in DL3 in the file PBE.EXE. The documentation for this program is in the file PBE.DOC. To make the working copy: 1)Copy the original program disk to another 3.5" disk, telling the copy program to ignore the error on block 7. 2)Use the block editor to find byte $14 in block $44D (1101). You can also search the disk for the byte sequence: 0C 00 C9 01 00 F0, which will uniquely find the the proper byte. 3)Change the byte from F0 to 80. 4)Write the block back to the disk. 5)You now have a de-protected copy of Music Studio! Several people have had trouble getting this program to work on a hard disk. Here are some tips to help out: 1)Make sure that you boot into ProDOS 16 from the hard disk. 2)Copy any files from the Music Studio /SYSTEM subdirectory that don't exist on the hard disk to the appropriate subdirectory on the hard disk. Make sure to delete the /SYSTEM subdirectory in the Music Studio subdirectory, as having two systems on the hard disk can cause problems. 3)If all else fails, the program should run from the root directory of the hard drive. I would like to stress that these instructions are provided to allow archival backups only. If anyone can figure out how to make backups of any other copy-protected IIgs programs, please post the info here or leave me E-mail. Rodney Somerstein 73167,2165 Deluxe Paint // Backup Well Mates can you believe I found a common denominator in the Electronic Arts protection scheme that envolves Prodos 16 and Super Hi-Res Graphics...... Any way here is how to break the protection on Deluxe Paint ][ 1. Copy the program key disk with Copy][ Plus full disk copy (note you will have to format the target disk first). 2. Break out your copy of Prosel's Block Worden and get it up and running and working on your COPY of Deluxe Paint ][ I.E. Make it so that it will be reading and writing to that disk. 3. Read in Block $412 4. Enter the Edit mode and move the cursor to Byte $169 5. It should be over a byte that reads $A8.... Change this to $EA 6. Exit the Edit mode by pressing ESC and Write this block back out to the disk. 7. You now have a copy of Deluxe Paint ][ that you can back-up using the normal copy programs for the 3.5 drives. Remember, this is only for making a working backup for yourself. David Dutcher 71500,2467 Here's how to make a working backup copy of Paintworks Plus that does not ask you to insert the master disk. In order to make an unprotected copy you need: 1)Any disk copy program that will ignore bad blocks on the disk. Copy II+ and Glen Bredon's volume copy program from Prosel will work fine. 2)A ProDOS block/sector editor. Block Warden (Prosel), Copy II+ sector editor, or the Bag of Tricks II Zap program will work. If you don't have access to one of these programs, a program that will do the job can be found in DL3 in the file PBE.EXE. The documentation for this program is in the file PBE.DOC. To make the working copy: 1)Copy the original program disk to another 3.5" disk, telling the copy program to ignore the error on block 7. 2)Use the block editor to find the sequence of bytes: C9 06 09 D0 01. This sequence is in block $291 (657). You can also have the program search the entire disk for these bytes. 3)Change the five bytes to EA's (NOP, or no-operation instructions). 4)Write the block back to the disk. 5)You now have a de-protected copy of Paintworks Plus! Several people have had trouble getting this program to work on a hard disk. Here are some tips to help out: 1)Make sure that you boot into ProDOS 16 from the hard disk. 2)Copy any files from the Paintworks /SYSTEM subdirectory that don't exist on the hard disk to the appropriate subdirectory on the hard disk. Make sure to delete the /SYSTEM subdirectory in the Paintworks subdirectory, as having two systems on the hard disk can cause problems. 3)If all else fails, the program should run from the root directory of the hard drive. I would like to stress that these instructions are provided to allow archival backups only. If anyone can figure out how to make backups of any other copy-protected IIgs programs, please post the info here or leave me E-mail. Rodney Somerstein 73167,2165 The following document describes the method for making a backup copy of Writer's Choice elite that does not require the use of the master (key) disk. To complete the archival backup procedure, you will need: 1) A disk copy program that is capable of ignoring bad blocks on a disk. Copy II+ and Glen Bredon's volume copy program from Prosel will do the trick. 2) A ProDOS block/sector editor. The Copy II+ sector editor, Prosel's Block Warden or Beagle Bros' Pro-Byter will work. The file PBE.EXE in DL3 will also work. To make the de-protected backup: 1) Copy the original program disk to a blank 3.5" disk. If you use Copy II+, version 7.0 or higher and copy straight from the master disk to the new backup, it will automatically ignore the block 7 error. If you are using another copy program, you may have to manually force the error to be ignored. 2) Use the block editor to locate the sequence of Hex bytes: C9 07 00 D0 01. This sequence can be found in block $523 (1315), byte $73 (115). If the block/sector editor is capable of searching for hex bytes, you could have it search the entire disk for this sequence. 3) Change the five bytes to EA's (NOP, or No Operation instructions). 4) Write the block back to the disk. 5) You have now created a de-protected copy of Writer's Choice elite. This procedure is intended to produce an archival backup copy ONLY of Writer's Choice elite. NOTE: If you like the fonts used in Writer's Choice elite, and you are using MultiScribe GS or DeluxePaint II, you can interchange the fonts between programs simply by copying each font file to the /SYSTEM/FONTS subdirectory of the program disk you want them on. --- Allan C. Reichert 76167,370 ARPA: stein%uconnvm.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu Alan H. Stein BITNET: STEIN@UCONNVM University of Connecticut UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!STEIN at Waterbury CompuServe: 71545,1500 Genie: ah.stein Department of Mathematics