This brings back happy memories! :-) Ah, the cunning protection scheme. The one life is indeed to let all you pirates think you copied the disc without a problem - I can't remember the music not changing. You can also run the Spectrum version if you type something in before booting the disc. Can't remember what it was though... I'm not sure about the rights either. Free for all as far as I'm concerned, but since the game is a port from the Speccy version I could imagine something belonging there. But then again since there is no acceptance / denial on WoS... Cheers! Stefan - still applying Z80 concepts in a 4GL environment ;-) ...
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Simon Owen Sent: Sun 12/11/2005 03:23 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: RE: Sophistry Andrew Collier wrote: > It's a bit odd though - the music is messed up and you start > the game with only one life. I remembered the single life limitation, but hadn't noticed the music difference until you said that. It does seem that the demo continues to use the menu music in the game, instead of switching to the slightly more subtle background music. > Samdisk had read the floppy perfectly (or so it thought) so > there's probably nothing wierd about the formatting of 10 > sectors per track for 80 tracks. It's normal format except for one tiny difference, which you can see using: SamDisk.exe /scan a: /t:41-41 /s:0 Look carefully and you'll see the final 2 sectors are reversed: 41:0 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 8 The game checks this on startup using READ ID, and if the order isn't right it runs in demo mode. Cool huh? :-) Anyway, I've sent you both my SDF image of it. I don't know who owns the rights to it, so I'll not spread it any further for now. > Is there a way to create SimCoupe-compatible images of > protected disks yet? If you'd asked this next week it would have been a whole lot easier to answer! I've been trying to get a few things tidied up before Christmas, so some of it is a bit up in the air. I've got a test version of SamDisk that will image (almost) any SAM title under W2K/XP. It's missing some features from SamDisk 2.0, so it's not quite ready to replace the existing version yet. I'd be happy to send you a copy to try, if you're just looking to image some disks. One problem is that it creates images in EDSK format, which the current SimCoupe releases can't read. I've added support for it, but I'm in the middle of hacking the FDC emulation so I can't check my changes back in yet. It's likely to be a couple of days before I've put all the pieces back together though. Si
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