Where can I get E-Copy 3?
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Aley [eili] Keprt - student, programmer (multimedia soft. etc.)
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> 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]
>
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