Hi, I recently acquired a couple of Central Point Deluxe Option Boards with v5.4 of the software, plus manuals. (I haven't tested either card yet though.) This card allows protected and wierd-format disks to be read and written using a standard PC floppy drive. The supplied software supports Mac and Amiga disks as well as Apple II and Commodore. I guess the hardware is functionally similar to the Catweasel ISA card. Anyway, relating to that a few points: - If anyone needs disk images of the software (3?" 720K or 5?" 360K), I can upload them. My disks have not been written to since new. - What was the last version of the software? I read a newsgroup posting from 1997 that mentioned versions 5.5 and 6.0. - What differences are there between the Option Board and Deluxe Option Board? Looking at a picture in an eBay auction listing, the Option Board card appears to use quite a few discrete (TTL?) ICs, whereas the Deluxe card (or at least, the cards I have), uses an ASIC made by Toshiba. Does the ASIC simply replicate the discrete ICs, or contain extra functionality? - Has anyone reverse-engineered the hardware? Only the discrete-IC version would be feasible, I guess. In combination with disassembling the software, that should provide sufficient info to allow new software that accesses the Option Board to be written. - Has anyone reverse-engineered the disk image file format used by the software? I know someone has written a program to convert image files created from Apple II disks to plain disk images for use with Apple emulators; see http://www.ece.nwu.edu/~cbachmann/apple.html There is a description of some of the file format on that page. - Ideally, I'd like to contact someone who was involved with the development of either the hardware or software; maybe they could provide info on how it works. - On a similar note, what was the last version of Central Point's Copy II PC software? That program could be used to copy some protected PC disks without needing extra hardware. -- Mark