AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons") (04/06/89)
>Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 13:14:33 EDT >From: hentosh%amethyst.bucknell.edu@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU >Subject: Re: SoftSwitch comes with manuals > >[...] I don't have a copy of SoftSwitch and haven't seen one. >But I thought there used to be a big controversy over SoftSwitch's >copy-protection. That it wrote a specific byte into an unused >location of batter-backup ram [...] Is this still true [...]? Current versions of SoftSwitch do not fiddle with Battery RAM. (Roger Wagner Publishing _removed_ that pseudo-copy-protection. That's another reason I encourage people to buy SoftSwitch.) BTW, recent versions of SoftSwitch can be loaded using ProDOS 8 and P8CDA (ProDOS 16 or GS/OS not necessary). Same goes for MacroMate. For those of you keeping score at home, that's the second message I've written in the last 10 minutes mentioning P8CDA, and mentioning that I wrote it. It wouldn't be too fair for me to tell you that SoftSwitch, MacroMate, and P8CDA are great products, so I'll just let you buy them & decide that for yourselves. --David A. Lyons bitnet: awcttypa@uiamvs DAL Systems CompuServe: 72177,3233 P.O. Box 287 GEnie mail: D.LYONS2 North Liberty, IA 52317 AppleLinkPE: Dave Lyons
prl3546@tahoma.UUCP (Philip R. Lindberg) (04/11/89)
> Current versions of SoftSwitch do not fiddle with Battery RAM. (Roger > Wagner Publishing _removed_ that pseudo-copy-protection. That's > another reason I encourage people to buy SoftSwitch.) > > --David A. Lyons I just bought SoftSwitch, but it was on the "Sale" table.... So, how do I know if what I got the better version? Thanks, Phil