Expanding on DLM, MECC, TLC, educational software with copyprotection

[lyricalnanoha <lyricalnanoha@usotsuki.hoshinet.org>]

Expanding on my prior post.

> I've found a bunch of the DLM games there, though all "tro'd", and some 
> appear to be BASIC wrapped in binary. (Yes, that's right - BASIC wrapped in 
> BIN.)  I'd like to try to reconstruct them as single files (as I have, apart 
> from the logos which weren't on the disk, for a couple of the games already). 
> - I might even put some of these on their own Apple Crunch collection.

I've packed and crunched a few of these already.

On the .dsk on Asimov most of the games have already been packed or 
partially packed, some rather shoddily.  When I crunched those games they 
didn't compress as well.

[andi@andisteele ~/Working]$ dir33 ~/Apple/dlm.dsk

DISK VOLUME 254

 A 045 METEOR MULTIPLICATION
 A 040 MINUS MISSION
 A 026 ALIEN ADDITION

Alien Addition is the only game on the disk which was NOT packed as I 
acquired it from Asimov.  It also works better following my tweaks than 
the other two.  This is another reason I like to find pristine sources - 
they manipulate better.

-uso.