Copy Protection (Was: anyone with an early Option Board?

there was a "copier" for the c64 called "cruel copier" once upon a time. whatever you do, don't run it. it's not actually a copier.it's made up to look like one, but it uses every trick in the book to utterly destroy your drive,even little things like disabling the track check and so forth, telling the drive to seek to track 100,which the drive would happily try to do. occasionally making the drive sound like a jet engine,also code from "daisy" and hordes of other things I don't think anyone has actually looked into. suffice it to say, it has been known to wreck drives, even with a single run.that is, if you're stupid enough to actually run the damn thing - I wasn't, but there were people who did. it was put out by a fake company calling itself "magnetic manipulations Inc",which I always thought was a cool name. too bad they didn't do much productive releases,they're only decently useful utility was called SDS (super disk speed) - a fast loader.or I suppose "soft sector format" was another really cool one. there were tons of these little groups/companies doing very cool things. I wish I had gotten one of those "drive mirror" LED track/sector/density displays....