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Re: Mastery Development Software Copy



Henry wrote:
Hey Michael.


The Softkey "controllers" are text files that are meant to be
EXECed into the Super IOB program, which saves you the typing.  ;-)


Ah ha! I thought there was something I was missing. Thanks for the little tidbit on info!



I run Super IOB, but have the same error with Tack 1.

Then it's time to examine track 1 in Copy II Plus using the
nibble editor.  Take a look at the address and data formatting
nibbles and see if they match the softkey.

I haven't looked at the Sword of Kadash controller, but it may be
changing some format nibbles so that a normal disk can't be read,
only the Sword of Kadash or other similarly protected disk.
Are you using an *original* Sword of Kadash or a deprotected copy?


I am trying to copy Mastery Development's Arithmetic Games. Acording to Computist I should use the Sword of Kadash Side B softkey. No good though. I also do have the original of Arithmetic Games.



If anyone has a known good, working copy of Super IOB please email me a copy or post a link here.


It's almost certainly OK.  There is some other problem.


Must be as I also tried the v1.2 Super IOB but still to no avail. I can't imagine that the softkey could be wrong. Maybe Mastery Development changed it's copy protection scheme and I have a newer disk?

It's not unusual for the copy protection scheme to change somewhat
from edition to edition of a program.

I'm at a total loss at this point. I'll send a copy of the Super IOB program I have to AMart and see if it works for him. 'No go' for me though.

The thing to do at this point--assuming that it doesn't work for AMart
either--is to read the Computist article accompanying the softkey and
see if you can recreate the discovery process to find a new softkey
that *does* work with the disk.

It's like a puzzle--sometimes the answer is not in the back of
the book and you have to solve it.  ;-)

-michael

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