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From: vogelei@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Todd Vogelei)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Copy protection disabling
Message-ID: <2700@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: 2 Jun 89 06:24:34 GMT
Reply-To: vogelei@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Todd Vogelei)
Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro NM
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I bought a program called vision from a company called opcode for music
sequencing, it is copy protected and I  usually stear clear of such 
things but this program is too good to not have and I know of no other 
tool for the job that fits my needs so well.  

It will allow you to install it onto a hard disk, you can uninstall it
to move it and must uninstall it before running HD tuneup, diskfit,
or attempting to restore a HD from a backup. The manual says failure to
do so will corrupt the program.  

The manual did not mention gatekeeper which I haven't heard from in so
long I forgot it was running.  Gatekeeper vetoed the installation
but the master disk thinks iot is installed!  I can't uninstall it because 
it never made it to begin with.  At the rate I have had problems with
my hard drive, I'm likely to lose one of these every month or so.
They only ship you one disk, a backup is shipped on registration.


Does anybody know of a way to disable the copy protection on this thing?
I'm gonna give opcode a bad time tomorrow but I really want to copy
the floppy a bunch of times so I can have an installable copy anytime
I mung the one I have online.   I suspect the thing will sommit suicide
if it thinks it is being fooled with so I need to be really careful.

Todd
vogelei@nmtsun