Re: Seeking reverse-engineers - Apple II VisiCalc

[nem <nem@nospam>]

mcpublic <mc@media.mit.edu> wrote in news:

> I'd like to get Apple II VisiCalc running in emulation.
> Right now this isn't possible because of the copy protection.
> (BTW the PC DOS version is available on the web, and doesn't have copy
> protection).

It did originally. All versions of Visicalc except for the TRS-80 Model I 
release were copy-protected.
 
> I have three versions of the Apple II software.  I know one of them
> still boots (1983?)
> and have some confidence that the other two versions (1979 and 1981)
> work also.

IIRC, Dan Bricklin said they took the copy-protection out of the later 
releases (as well as cassette support).