Re: top protected Apple II title?

[A2Aviator <a2aviator@gmail.com>]

Well, if it's something I can run, I'm willing to make images of them,
but I'm not really interested at the moment in cutting anything loose.
I may have several of that disk, though.

One thing interesting about the Skyfox and Archon cracks back in the
day.

Of course, everyone was competing back then.

Other peoples Skyfox release did not support Mockingboard. Perhaps
they didn't know it existed. Ours worked with Mockingboard.

With Archon, we discovered the remains of the Character editor on the
disk and added a boot time key to get it to load. There was also a bug
in which the wizard could not cast a spell after the 7th. move. That
got fixed. Other releases had neither.

A side note, I used to use Skyfox disks among other similar ones, such
as Sirius Type Attack! & Plasmania as disk drive test items.

One running joke was when we were at an auction of Micro-Sci, several
of the lots were piles of disks. Not odd for a disk drive/peripheral
manufacture to have. But one such lot was approximately 100 copies of
"Bandits".  Bandits also had one of the most anally checking
protection methods, if the drive was not in top performance shape this
disk would just not complete the load process. A bit too harsh, they
had to back off later on. But none the less, it provided a really good
testing platform, and was much cheaper than Master Diagnostics if you
used it just to determine drive alignment. :)