From: Aley Keprt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Can anyone recommend any demos or games that have use fairly non-standard > > disk formats? > > I can only recommend not to do this! > If soomeone made a protection, he probably wanted us not to copy these > diskettes. I'm affraid about copyright laws.
But if you already own the software that has the protection on it, surely it's legal? (by the way, that was rhetorical - it is very much legal) > In addition, it is very problematic to use nonstandard formats under > Win32. Also, some features of Sam's drive are not compatible with pc's > drive. it simply cannot handle sectors other than 4 statndard sizes. > Since Sam can physically hanle much more sector sizes, it is almost > unpossible to use protected disks on pc. I don't believe that's the main problem; the VL1772-02 can only handle 4 sector sizes -- 128,256,512 and 1024 bytes. However, it can mix & match sector sizes on one track, and also can spoof address blocks; so that is more problematic. A program written on a SAM should be able to copy these disks though. > if we would copy these disks to an image, we would need a special software > for the regular sam. this is another complication. Already got it - it's called E-Copy 3. -- minor modifications to dump to RAM/a PC disk/a specially formatted SAM disk would be easy. Simon Cooke (The views of this poster are his and his alone, and may or may not reflect the views of the Microsoft Corporation). ps. NSFMSFT == Not Speaking For MicroSoFT. [force of habit, I guess]
