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From: AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: SoftSwitch no longer fiddles with battery RAM (GS)
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Date: 6 Apr 89 01:57:00 GMT
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>Date:         Wed, 5 Apr 89 13:14:33 EDT
>From:         hentosh%amethyst.bucknell.edu@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
>Subject:      Re:  SoftSwitch comes with manuals
>
>[...] I don't have a copy of SoftSwitch and haven't seen one.
>But I thought there used to be a big controversy over SoftSwitch's
>copy-protection. That it wrote a specific byte into an unused
>location of batter-backup ram [...] Is this still true [...]?

Current versions of SoftSwitch do not fiddle with Battery RAM. (Roger
Wagner Publishing _removed_ that pseudo-copy-protection.  That's
another reason I encourage people to buy SoftSwitch.)

BTW, recent versions of SoftSwitch can be loaded using ProDOS 8 and
P8CDA (ProDOS 16 or GS/OS not necessary).  Same goes for MacroMate.
For those of you keeping score at home, that's the second message
I've written in the last 10 minutes mentioning P8CDA, and mentioning
that I wrote it.

It wouldn't be too fair for me to tell you that SoftSwitch,
MacroMate, and P8CDA are great products, so I'll just let you buy
them & decide that for yourselves.

 --David A. Lyons              bitnet: awcttypa@uiamvs
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