ellis@sage.cs.reading.ac.uk (Sean Ellis) (11/13/86)
[ Insert your favourite line-eater here :-) ] > ...amused to find phrases like "Scum of the Earth" ... etc Having bought Rogue, I tried to copy it with a copier that I have acquired ( merely to give myself a back-up copy, of course... ;-) ) and found that one of the options gave me a copy which ran perfecly until about level three, whence the slightest hit from anything ( even a bat ) killed me, reset my gold to zero, and displayed on the gravestone: /-------------\ : Software : : Pirate : : : : Scum of the : : Universe : : : : killed on : level three : : with 0 gp's : --------+-------------+----------- Or words to that effect. This is presumably so that, having made a copy, a quick run will seem to show a perfect reproduction, and thus fool any people giving the program away to their friends, relatives, colleagues, pets, neighbours goldfish..... Thong. [ The views above are my own (except any quotes !) and not anyone elses.. so ] [ flame me personally, not them ] +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | "Thong" Ellis, Reading University Computer Science VAX "Sage", England | | | | "But there aren't any REAL people here at all..." : Roosta | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
gordon@sage.cs.reading.ac.uk (Simon Gordon) (11/14/86)
>Having bought Rogue, I tried to copy it with a copier that I have acquired >( merely to give myself a back-up copy, of course... ;-) ) and found that >one of the options gave me a copy which ran perfecly until about level three, >whence the slightest hit from anything ( even a bat ) killed me, reset my >gold to zero, and displayed on the gravestone: > > /-------------\ > : Software : > : Pirate : > : : > : Scum of the : > : Universe : > : : > : killed on > : level three : > : with 0 gp's : > --------+-------------+----------- > > Thong. > This is indeed a problem, I have found that I can back it up with STCOPY20 (for my own use of course). But as I have a double sided drive this is a bit of a nuicance as the protected disk is single sided. This morning, I used STCOPY20 to copy it to a double sided disk, then formated the disk from the desk top as double sided, then copied the other files back onto the new double sided disk - this worked (at least up to level 8) - so the protection is, as usual, data in tracks 81, 82, or 83 (if you number from 1 as the first track). This should work for converting other protected software to protected double sided versions - its even easier with programs that can be backed up with procopy 2.01 (ive modified my version to do 83 instead of 82 tracks) as you can tell that to just copy tracks 81, 82, and 83 rather than the whole disk. Hope this helps all those users with double sided drives annoyed at the waisted space with protected software. Simon at Reading University.