Rich Mellor wrote, on 17/Jan/11 15:14 | Jan17:
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The problem with copy protected microdrives continues to be an issue
even some 20 years after the practice was stopped!
A lot of software is cracked to overcome this issue, but not all.
The use of an external microdrive may be a solution to some software,
but the majority of software which anticipates a key cartridge looks
only in mdv1 or mdv2 (or both). It would never look at an mdv3_, so that
would have to be taken into consideration.
One potential way around this, would be for the SD card hardware to be
able to present a default microdrive image to the system as a microdrive
cartridge, in much the same was as Q-emuLator can now do. Daniele could
probably comment better on the feasibility of porting his code across
... or pins one and two of each mdv socket be jumpered together, and
then the externals start at mdv1. I used to do this with a small loop
of wire.
Tony
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