rob@hhb.UUCP (Robert R Stegmann) (10/06/87)
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Hi all, some info and a question:
I got the September newsletter from Data Pacific, and it says they're
taking orders for the Magic Sac Macintosh compatible disk drive.
The price is about $280. They had a special price if you ordered before
Sept 30, but it's too late now.
Before I plunk down money, I'm wondering if anyone already has any experience
with the drive, and could tell me if copy-protected games run straight out of
the box? In particular, I'm interested in Deja-Vu, Uninvited, and Shadowgate
from (I believe) Mindscape. I own the ST version of Balance of Power from the
same publisher (at least the packaging is the same unusual style), and their
copy protection seems a bit Draconian vis-a-vis the way it treats the disk.
(BTW, Pro-Copy has no problem cloning BOP. I thought you might like to
know, since BOP is particularly obnoxious because it writes to the master disk!)
Also, a note on crashing the latest version of the Sac, 4.36.
I got the book _The Macintosh Bible_ and was following the instructions in
an early chapter for organizing a disk's contents when an ugly crash occurred.
I don't have the book in front of me, so I'll defer posting the steps till I
do. But, unfortunately, it is still possible to crash the Sac while performing
a normal operation, even with crash recovery enabled.
rob
Robert Stegmann
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