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From: cmcmanis@stpeter.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bard's Tale I
Keywords: Hard Drive Copy Protection Nuisance
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Date: 28 Dec 89 20:50:14 GMT
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In article <4623.AA4623@caleb> jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:
>     I just got a shiny new Bard's Tale I for Christmas.  Unfortunately, it
>is copy protected.  I want to put it on my hard drive (it is painfully slow on
>floppies!!!)

If you find out how to "break" it (and BT II) I would be interested. A simple
workaround for those folks like me who don't get into long logic analyzer or
dissassembly sessions is to put an 'Addbuffers df0: 250' in the startup
sequence before it starts up. That helps a lot. (On BT II there isn't 
enough room to put the addbuffers command on the disk, so I put it on my
character disk and put df1:Addbuffers ... in the startup sequence. Works
great.


--Chuck McManis
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