25 Mar
1998
25 Mar
'98
12:23 a.m.
At 15:07 3/24/98 +0930, Adam wrote:
....do most people lucky enough to have the 1 already
have the
software?(1) The
other question concerns the protection - as the twiggy
drives were
certainly non-standard,(2) would it still be possible to remove the copy
protection from these disks?(3)
(1) Ha!
(2) You need a running Twiggy, or in plain English, you need a properly
aligned Twiggy. I know of nothing else that will read those disks, because
of the odd positions of the access holes.
(3) Removing the copy protection on the Sony disks, I know, involved
setting a two-byte serialization field back to 00 (or FF?) The Twiggys
can't have been too different. Apple wrote a utility that would do that; I
may be able to dig up its name.
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