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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RAD
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Date: 15 Feb 90 11:10:23 GMT
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In <6871@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>, vernon@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Vernon Wheeler) writes:
>7. now you can remove youre disks from all drives and reboot using 
>   CTRL AMIGA\ AMIGA the system will boot from df3: . if you loaded
>   a game it will load and run. if you want to go back to wb simply
>   install wb in a DF0: and reboot. THE game will still be there.
>   P.S. I use snakepit for this.
>TRY this then use try to use a program like mrauder to copy faire tale
>or another copy proteced disk . all I get is device not conected. I do NOT 
>get copy failures because I cant start the copy.
>
>   Sorry about the length but I got responses suggesting I needed rad:
>and it had to match a disk drive. I assumed that when I said I could
>use diskcopy that that It is a must for that part. I would like to see
>a way to do this because it works well for games with a lot of disk loads
>try workbench and see how fast it loads. I made a copy of wb and modifyed
>it  to mount df3: on it's own. 

Many copy programs use the extended trackdisk.device commands to do their
thing. RAD: does not have the appropriate commands.

-larry

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