29 Oct
2012
29 Oct
'12
7:51 a.m.
the age-old argument. :)It wasn't about piracy, it was about making legal backups of
stuff you owned.some of the copy protection could actually damage your equipment over
time.
technically you should duplicate all the protection and stuff.sometimes if your drive was
out a bit, or something, the stuff wouldn't work.
for most consumers, it just has to work.
there were worse copy protections than laser burns.
there was nothing really equivalent to v-max c64 copy protection on PC.unmodified drives
were incapable of writing the data back the way it was written.
but then a PC drive can't compare to a 1541, PC drives are dumb devices
Dan.
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:23:01 -0700
From: cisin at xenosoft.com
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: Copy Protection (Was: anyone with an early Option Board?
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)
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com