dav@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (William David Haas) (09/19/90)
I finally bought a copy of FALCON and am learning to play. The docs say the game is not copy protected and that you should make a backup copy but I can't find anything to copy the disks. I have tried various copiers and nothing seems to work. All my copies pop up with PC error 4.
mg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Paul Greelish) (09/20/90)
You should be able to copy the game by doing a *file* copy from the desktop, not a *disk* copy. I copied all of the stuff from the two single sided disks the game comes on to a double sided disk and it works fine. Incidentally, many, many "non-copy protected" programs can only be copied as files. Seems there are a lot of weird disk formats floating around out there...
ric@mcrware.UUCP (Ric Yeates) (09/21/90)
In article <24402@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> dav@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (William David Haas) writes: >I finally bought a copy of FALCON and am learning to play. The docs >say the game is not copy protected and that you should make a backup >copy but I can't find anything to copy the disks. I have tried various >copiers and nothing seems to work. All my copies pop up with PC error 4. I had this same problem with my original FALCON and the backup of disk #2. After many attempts, I finally realized that the write protect tabs have to be in a certain configuration for the disks to work. I can't remember how they are, but if you look at the working originals and make your copies the same, I'm pretty sure it'll work. Ric Yeates -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ric Yeates Microware Systems Corp. "I found these opinions on the floor, so I don't think they belong to Microware." 1. Grease Generously 2. Wax Philosophically -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
hardware@rose.uwaterloo.ca () (09/27/90)
In article <MaxysHe00VIFI0hkV6@andrew.cmu.edu> mg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Paul Greelish) writes: >You should be able to copy the game by doing a *file* copy from the >desktop, not a *disk* copy. I copied all of the stuff from the two >single sided disks the game comes on to a double sided disk and it works >fine. > >Incidentally, many, many "non-copy protected" programs can only be >copied as files. Seems there are a lot of weird disk formats floating >around out there... I guess I would have to agree with you there. For instance the Union Demo couldnt be copied because it was using 1024 byte sectors which means most existing copiers would cough and die. However there are a few intellegent copiers out there that check sector size etc. The Union demo used 512 byte sectors for the first three sectors then resorted to 1024 byte sectors for the rest. Of course you need a special formatter for it and at one time hypercopy had this built into it. Other manufacturers are using laser holes to identify disks they sent out as compared to backup disks which wouldnt have the holes which send out a distinct error code. With all the time spent into protecting the software it would be wiser to track down the culprits that leak out software before it has hit the market. Sometime this is done via backdoors other times it is a result of theft at a computer show. ********************************************************************** Hardware Dave at your Service PS. Good movie to watch if you like comedies is "Nuns on the Run" *********************************************************************
ekrimen@csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) (09/27/90)
hardware@rose.uwaterloo.ca (Hardware Dave at your Service) writes:
- For instance the Union Demo couldnt be copied because it was using
- 1024 byte sectors which means most existing copiers would cough and
- die.
But the Union Demo has a copier built-in that looks and sounds good.
Why would you want to use any other copier, unless you wanted to make
multiple copies?