chowg@ecf.UUCP (05/26/87)
I own a Commodore 64. When I was going to buy a disk drive for it I was convinced by friends to buy the 2031 IEEE disk drive (i.e. 'why would you want a serial disk drive?'). I hooked it up to my 64 using the BusCard II interface by Batteries Included. It is faster than the 1541 (but not that much faster - most 1541 fastloaders can probably run faster). I would like to know the main differences between the 2031 and the 1541 (my drive has a case exactly like the 1541). I know that the disk formats are slightlty different - they are read but not write- compatible. My biggest problem is that a lot of software copy protection will cause the drive to crash during loading. Only very simple protection scchemes will work with the 2031. Does anyone out there have a good enough knowledge of software protection to recommend what companies' software will probably work on this drive? Fortunately the store where I buy most of my software will let me exchange the program if it crashes on my drive. Game software seems to have the most trouble (example: all Electronics Arts programs will not work) but even the QuantumLink disk will not load. I would appreciate any help. Gordon Chow Dept. of Metallurgy and Materials Science University of Toronto Toronto, Canada chowg@toronto.edu
rex@otto.COM (Rex Jolliff) (06/19/87)
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Sorry about posting this to the entire network, but our mailer wouln't accept
his mail address. Besides, this might help other people too...
I have heard that the 'ISEPIC' cartridge will remove the protection from most
pieces of software. It works by a flipping a switch on the cartridge, then
whatever is in memory will be saved out to disk. So anything that does'nt do
repeated protection checks will be made useful with this device. If you are
using it for your own purposes it should be perfectly legal. Just one problem,
you will need a friend with a 1541 to do the 'protection stripping' with.
The 'ISEPIC' cartridge adds it's own fastloader to the converted software, and
I have heard that this fastloader will work with IEEE type(2031, SFD-1001,
etc.) disk drives.
I'm not sure of the address of the company, but the company's name is
Starpoint software. just look it up in any _RUN_ or _Compute_ magazine.
Hope I helped ya!
** Rex! **
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