D Finnigan wrote:
Sean Fahey wrote:On Wednesday, April 4, 2012 1:57:28 PM UTC-5, D Finnigan wrote:Do we know if Mr. Scott has the equipment to do the job? I'd say the easiest path is to get a pre-1999 Power Macintosh computer. That will have the floppy drive to read the ProDOS 3.5" disk and the Ethernet port to send the disk image to somewhere else.http://jordanmechner.com/blog/2012/04/textfiles/ Just an update.Thanks. I can't wait to see how this story unfolds. :-)
With the relatively massive response and the heavy armament, I get the feeling of "using a cannon to shoot a mouse." I'm betting on a simple ADTPro transfer for the source. ;-) As for the copy-protected disks, deprotection shouldn't be too difficult. Unless, like the "Antiques Roadshow", they want to preserve the protection instead of just understanding it. In any case, the protected game disk(s) should be relatively common. Of course, there's always the possibility that all the disks were stored next to a motor or something, and their memory is but a memory... -michael NadaNet 3.1 for Apple II parallel computing! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."