28 Oct
2012
28 Oct
'12
7:23 p.m.
On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Dan Gahlinger wrote:
copywrite was the best copier I saw for PC,and it had
programs to remove
laser hole checks in some cases.
It always did a better job for me than option boards ever did.
PC copy protection was always a joke compared to stuff going on with the
c64 in those days.
At Ft. Meade, they dealt with copy protection that was way beyond anything
possible on a home computer.
If what you want to do0 is to make unauthorized copies of copy-protected
diskettes, then an option board might be useful, but not as easy as a
program written for the specific purpose of removing the copy-protection
subroutine on that particular disk. Comparing an option board V dedicated
Pro-lock removal is like comparing your hammer with your screwdriver.
If you don't give a shit about copy-protection, then those programs are
useless and silly.
But, a "flux transition" board can be used for things that WE care about,
such as examining GCR diskettes with a PC, and correcting, NOT JUST
IGNORING, parity errors, including those that cause "sector not found"
errors (assuming that some of the content of that sector is actually
still around)
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com