info-mac@uw-beaver (12/25/84)
From: LEVITT%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA I just got MusicWorks yesterday from a dealer, and included with it is a little card to send in with $10 which will get you a back-up copy. Presumably you can also keep your receipt and complain to the dealer if your copy gets trashed somehow. HOWEVER, I would really like to install it on my Corvus hard disk, and I'm not sure how! So I'm tempted to try to beat the copy protection, now that I've given the demo/dealer, publisher and creators their due. Any suggestions? Perhaps I can get the dealer to call the publisher, Hayden...
info-mac@uw-beaver (12/27/84)
From: David.Anderson@CMU-CS-K.ARPA I too got MusicWorks for Christmas and quickly set to work trying to make a copy (who wants to spend $10 to avoid having such fun?). The copy protection isn't difficult to crack. There are two invisible files -- a standard block copy program works fine (but a hard disk might be more difficult -- it is possible that the invisible files have to be on certain tracks, or something similarly awful). What I'd like to know is how the finder knows that the file is copy protected. Is this the "Examine File" style protection? I'd be interested to know how this works. For those who haven't seen MusicWorks, it is really neat, although limited in some ways. You can compose, edit, print, and play music. A large number of esoteric features are missing: triplets, changing meter or key in the middle of a piece, dynamic markings, automatically adjusting volume and tempo during playback, etc. And you are limited to 64 measures (in 4/4). But what it does, it does quite well. It also comes with a nifty desk accessory called Trails you can use to draw pretty patterns on the screen while it plays music. If you have MusicWorks and haven't listened to it through a good external speaker, do so. Now. It really makes a difference.