Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!aplcen!jhunix!barrett
From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Nib 2.0 arrives!
Message-ID: <4193@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 12 Feb 90 16:00:22 GMT
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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	Well, I just got my copy of NIB 2.0 in the mail, after many months
of waiting.  NIB 1.0 was a shareware disk copier program (for copy-protected
software).  If you sent in the shareware fee, you were put on a list to
receive version 2.0 for free.  2.0 is a COMMERCIAL PRODUCT, so don't give
it away!

	The product is much improved over 1.0 -- it no longer screws up the
screen while copying, and the list of titles it backs up has grown quite
long.  The program now has sound (to let you know when the copy is
finished).  The graphic displays are informative.

	Some programs get copied verbatim.  Some get their copy-protection
removed!  Some programs get a custom NIB boot-block added (it will cause
VirusX to complain) that supposedly eludes the program's copy protection.
It displays these funky blue patterns on the screen.

	I tried copying SimCity as instructed, and the copy didn't work!  I
have written to the author about this.  This is the only game I tried, since
all my other stuff is already backed up.  It's possible that my version of
SimCity (1.1) was different from the author's.

	One quirk:  when exiting, NIB instructs you to remove all floppies
from their drives, or else the Amiga may crash!  I don't want to guess
what's going on here, but I duly pop my disks out when asked.

	NIB 2.0 is not copy-protected, and runs with no problems from
hard disk.

                                                        Dan

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