singer@ll-xn.UUCP (03/12/87)
From leavens@atari.UUCP (Alex Leavens) Wed Mar 11 12:24:16 1987 Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Atari Drives, copy protection, BITNET irrelevant stuff deleted... > > I have trouble believing that any copy protection method today relies >on drive speed for it's protection to work--I think that in VIP's case they >use a bad sector out on track 81 or 82, which is a definite no-no. 3.5" >drives are spec'd to go to track 80, and that's it... > >--alex @ Atari > >BIX:alexl. GEnie: ALEXLEAVENS AtariCorp: 408-745-2006 > Alex, I know you havent been at Atari long, but please go read the original (1985) HHG. The one that came with my developement system (June 1985) in a section about the disk drives, SUGGESTS that you use (I think the actual word is format) a few EXTRA tracks beyond track 79. I don't think you can blame (flame?) VIP for using track 81 when Atari specifically suggested doing so for copy protection. Matt Singer Commnet Systems