lynn@rave.phx.mcd.mot.com (Lynn D. Newton) (04/06/89)
I'm willing to pay for commercial software to overcome the copy-protection schemes on programs that I have purchased so as to be able to install them on my hard disk, but not to pay the money and then find that it won't copy the specific few programs I need it for. CONSEQUENTLY . . . Can anybody out there tell me whether Project D or any other copy-protection buster, commercial or otherwise, is able to copy any of the following software which I own and would like to install on hard disk?: Dr. T's KCS (Keyboard Controlled Sequencer) V1.6A Dr. T's MT-32 Patch Editor MIMETICS SoundScape Pro MIDI Studio Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing These are the only programs in my large library of commercial software which I must either run entirely from floppy (Mavis) or use the original as a keydisk. Help? Thanks. E-mail reply is fine unless you think the rest of the world would like to know. Lynn D. Newton Motorola Microcomputer Division, Tempe, Az. lynn@rave.phx.mcd.mot.com (Lynn D. Newton)
sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) (04/07/89)
In article <10665@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com> lynn@rave.phx.mcd.mot.com (Lynn D. Newton) writes: >Can anybody out there tell me whether Project D or any other >copy-protection buster, commercial or otherwise, is able to >copy any of the following software which I own and would like >to install on hard disk?: > > Dr. T's KCS (Keyboard Controlled Sequencer) V1.6A > Dr. T's MT-32 Patch Editor Of all the software companies out there, I'd have thought Dr. T's to be professional enough to allow hard disk installation. That's some very serious music software to be limiting users to floppy use. Not only that, but I understand that KCS is practically impossible to use without the manual because of it's sheer size. What a dissapointment. I was thinking of buying KCS sometime later this year. Sean -- *** Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet *** Just another Monkey Boy. {backbone site|rutgers|uunet}!ukma!sean *** U of K, Lexington Kentucky, USA ..where Christian movies are banned. *** ``I wanna marry a lighthouse keeper...''
nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock) (04/08/89)
In article <11435@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes: >In article <10665@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com> lynn@rave.phx.mcd.mot.com (Lynn D. Newton) writes: >>Can anybody out there tell me whether Project D or any other >>copy-protection buster, commercial or otherwise, is able to >>copy any of the following software which I own and would like >>to install on hard disk?: >> >> Dr. T's KCS (Keyboard Controlled Sequencer) V1.6A >> Dr. T's MT-32 Patch Editor > >Of all the software companies out there, I'd have thought Dr. T's to be >professional enough to allow hard disk installation. That's some very >serious music software to be limiting users to floppy use. > >Not only that, but I understand that KCS is practically impossible to >use without the manual because of it's sheer size. > >What a dissapointment. I was thinking of buying KCS sometime later this >year. First of all, I believe you can copy it to hard disk, it's just got a keydisk type of protection. Still not good. At the recent AmiExpo in NYC I had a talk with the head honcho from Dr. T regarding this very issue. I basically asked him if there were any chance we'd ever see an unprotected Dr. T program, since the keydisk protection was at the time really the only thing keeping me from buying KCS. He said basically "No", since the market for such programs was small, and if only a few hundred copies were pirated he'd feel it in his (and his employees') wallet, and he knew for sure that it *would* be pirated, etc. etc. I then asked if, given that, it would be possible to put in some kind of protection that wouldn't require keeping the floppy around, perhaps a look-up the-word-in-the-manual kind of thing. He said no, they had surveyed their users and found that they prefer the keydisk, since for performing artists on stage it would be very inconvenient to have to keep the manuals laying around in case that happened. Sigh. Still looking for the right sequencer, /.- -- .. --. .- .-. ..- .-.. . ... .- -- .. --. .- .-. ..- .-.. . ...\ / Neil Weinstock / att!cord!nsw \ "Actually, it's still 256K, and we \ | AT&T Bell Labs / or \ fit MultiFinder in there, too." | \ Liberty Corner / nsw@cord.att.com \ - jimm, re: Amiga ROMs / \.- -- .. --. .- .-. ..- .-.. . ... .- -- .. --. .- .-. ..- .-.. . .../
wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) (04/09/89)
I won't use a sequencer on stage that needs a key disk for the same reason that I wouldn't consider using a look-up-a-word-in-the-manual system. It is just too easy for something like a 3.5" floppy to get lost in the shuffle of setting-up or tearing-down on the road. I don't like dongles either, but at least a dongle can be firmly attached to the computer to avoid loss. The Rainbow Technologies dongle for IBM PCs costs about $26 in 100-lots. Given the quality of Dr. T software, most users wouldn't shy away if the product cost $26 more. Key disks are a joke anway, I haven't seen one yet that has stood up to concerted hacking. Even dongles can be copied. Back when Autocad for the IBM PC used dongle protection, clone dongles were readily available though underground vendors at flea markets. Bill