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From: richard@stb.uucp (Richard Conner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RAD
Summary: CopyProtected disks to RAM:/RAD: -- you lose
Message-ID: <1990Feb19.121647.9150@stb.uucp>
Date: 19 Feb 90 12:16:47 GMT
References: <6871@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: richard@stb.uucp (Richard Conner)
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Nope.  For probably most copy protected games, you are out of luck.
The way most things are copy protected is by changing special areas
"between" sectors on the physical disk.  These changes are what make
the disk unreadable by DOS.  Mounting a ram version of a disk, only
provides for the physical data "in" the sectors, not any special
sector header information like that the reside on the actual disk.

I'd say, the only disks you even remotely have a chance on are those
that use manual based copy protection AND can be copied by DOS
otherwise, the disk contains non-standard sectors, and cannot be
transferred to a RAM type disk.

-Richard
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