Re: Tech ?s about apple2e

[peterm@tlp.apana.org.au (Peter Maloney)]

dreamer@ods.sol.net writes:

> 
> IA>>3. I think I remember something about a modified DOS 3.3 hacked so it cou
> IA>>  write on write protected disks. Is this possible? Also, how did they ha
> IA>>  DOS so that it could load binary files a lot quicker?
> 
> Sounds to me like that was a hack done by some jerk who wanted to make a
> virus that could write to the disk even if the disk was
> write-protected...Why the heck would someone want to do this in DOS?
> Why not make a hardware switch instead, so that YOU could control when
> it would/n't recognize write-protection?  I know it's possible because I
> knew a guy that did it...
> 
> Give what you would like to receive,
> Glenn
> Lord Wilderness
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If you look at the circiut for the A2 diskette drive/card combo you'll 
see that even if the software ignoeres the Write Inhibit line the 
hardware won't produce write current. Non-Apple drives/cards might differ 
in this respect but the genuine article won't let you do it.
*<8o)X
Regds,
 Peter M.

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