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From: raw@mcnc.org (Russell Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HELP on Project D v1.1
Message-ID: <4171@alvin.mcnc.org>
Date: 13 Mar 89 00:19:07 GMT
References: <12090@swan.ulowell.edu> <15654@cup.portal.com> <15686@cup.portal.com>
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In article <15686@cup.portal.com>, Jasoni@cup.portal.com (Jason Joshua Irwin) writes:
> has anyone had any luck with raw copy?
>   i hear it copies about anything and you can do some really neat stuff
>   if you know what a disk is supposed to look like to the drive.

	A friend of mine bought RawCopy (version # forgotten, 1.3  I think),
and we tried it out to see what it could do.  The advertisements say it
deprotects most programs.  Well, the only thing I saw it deprotect was
Workbench.  We tried it out on my store bought copy of Return to Atlantis,
and it didn't work.  We started testing older programs who were not as well
protected.  After it failed to deprotect Balance of Power, which Marauder
deprotected a year or two ago, we gave up.  It did not deprotect anything,
and furthermore, it could only copy a fraction of the programs Marauder
could handle.  From what I've seen, my friend was burned but bad by good 'ol
Rawcopy.
	However, this was just letting the program do it's stuff.  I have no
idea what it can do if you can analyze a disk, but if you can analyze a 
disk well enough to write your own parameters, you probably don't need to
buy a copy program at all.

						Russell  Williams

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