Universal drive

At 09:03 AM 10/4/98 -0400, Doug Spence wrote: That company was Central Coast Software, run by George Chamberlin. He sold out to New Horizons, another pioneer Amiga company. Eventually NH's assets (including all the source code) were auctioned off and went at a discount price to a Canajun company whose name included the word "wonder", and I don't know what happened to it after that. I bid in the auction and missed it by a few hundred bucks. I wanted to take all their products, source and docs, and sell them on a CD as is. I have Dos-2-Dos (for DOS disks) and Disk-2-Disk (for C64 disks) in my archives, along with the adapter cables to connect your 1541 or Amiga 5 1/4 drive. I've used the freeware copier, too, with the motor-speed tweak to read 1541 disks on the Amiga, as well as the parallel-port to 1541 DIN version for the PC. However, I'd really like to find someone with knowledge of cracking old C-64 protection schemes. My friends and I made a few games with protection schemes, and we can't remember what we did, and so we have no way to run our old games in an emulator. :-) You can reach Betty at <76702.337(a)compuserve.com>om>. She's quite a character, one of the sysops of the Amiga area on Compuserve. She's an ex-schoolteacher from Texas. Knew Amiga assembler better than I did. I'm intrigued by the ideas for dirt-simple bit-streaming digitizing hardware for rescuing old floppy data. Digitizing the strength of the signal on the disk would go a long way to rescue old data, I think, breaking the reliance on the old intermediate hardware to turn it into a recognizable bitstream. I recall that one of our list members does this sort of trick with old reel tapes: digitize the channels, reconstruct at leisure using today's cheap hard disk space and CPU time. - John