Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!hwcs!neil
From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Writing to write protected disks
Message-ID: <1987@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 10 Oct 88 11:16:52 GMT
References: <881004015530.736833@PCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM>
Reply-To: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland
Lines: 40

In article <881004015530.736833@PCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM> Friesen%PCO@BCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM writes:
>
>
>Everyone wants a program that will do it, well here it is:
>
>************************* * * * PINBALL FACTORY * * BY:  * * MITCHRON *
>*************************
>
>It uses a wierd forrmat (it always makes weird noises on my floppy) for
>copy protection.  If you try to save a pinball game you have made to the
>original disk whether it is write protected or not, it won't save the
>whole thing, but part of it will be saved.  The only way you (or at
>least I) can save a game, is if you save it to another disk.

Here is one of the many expected replies to this ...
Your hardware must be bust.

>Aric Friesen
>
>Addresses:
>
>Genie:  A.FRIESEN
>
>ARPA:  Friesen%PCO@BCO-MULTICS.ARPA


 _____________________________________________________________________________
/ DISCLAIMER: Unless otherwise stated, the above comments are entirely my own \
!                                                                             !
! "I think all right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of    !
! being told that ordinary decent people are fed up in this country with      !
! being sick and tired. I'm certainly not and I'm sick and tired of being     !
! told that I am!" - Monty Python                                             !
!                                                                             !
! Neil Forsyth                           JANET:  neil@uk.ac.hw.cs             !
! Dept. of Computer Science              ARPA:   neil@cs.hw.ac.uk             !
! Heriot-Watt University                 UUCP:   ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!neil      !
! Edinburgh                                                                   !
! Scotland                                                                    !
\_____________________________________________________________________________/