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From: poirier@dg-rtp.dg.com (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RAD
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Date: 23 Feb 90 20:56:21 GMT
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In article <1990Feb19.121647.9150@stb.uucp> richard@stb.uucp (Richard Conner) writes:
>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...

There is no space "between" sectors on an Amiga floppy.  Instead of
having sectors, 11 blocks are concatenated to form a track with just
one gap between end and beginning.

I understand that a big protection mechanism these days is "long tracks",
recorded at a higher-than-normal density, that can be read but not
written by standard drives.

I apologize to the poster if I misunderstood what he said.

	Cheers,
	Charles Poirier